Product Announcements:
Air Bearings

Air Caster Corporation designs and fabricates "Heavy Load" platforms utilizing air bearings and drive tractors. This 48" x 140" platform provides 100,000 pounds of capacity for the movement of heat exchangers at Chart Industries. Read more...

Specialty Components is ISO 9001:2008 certified for the Design and Manufacture of Air Bearings and Metal Optics. Read more...

Specialty Components' standard SRA series spherical bearings provide frictionless motion in a very compact envelope with convenient mounting features. Whether withstanding the rigors of testing multi-ton spacecraft or providing highly accurate frictionless wafer-plane alignment in semiconductor tools, this versatile design offers a wide performance range and application use. Read more...

Air Caster Corporation can design and fabricate a custom, air caster equipped platform to suit your assembly line needs. Platforms can be equipped with internal or external drives and can feature auxiliary lifts to accommodate your load. Pneumatic actuated guide wheels are available to assist in steering or easily shut off to allow for side to side movement Read more...

Use of air bearings can solve difficult problems in motion applications, especially those involving zero friction, high accuracy and precision. Semiconductor machine tools and CMMs frequently use air bearings over mechanical bearings to provide the highest level of motion accuracy. We are now ISO 9001:2008 certified and continuously committed to high quality products. Read more...

Specialty Components' linear air bearings provide coordinate measuring machines (CMMs) with highly accurate & frictionless motion. Available in a variety of shapes & configurations including round and rectangular, with or without vacuum or magnetic preload. We are now ISO 9001:2008 certified and continuously committed to high quality products. Read more...

Air Caster Corporation offers a full range of air bearings for moving loads from a few hundred pounds to over 100,000 pounds. Read more...

Specialty Components' air bearings are made in a variety of shapes and configurations including round & rectangular with or without vacuum or magnetic preload. Different types may be combined with spherical and/or cylindrical air bearings to achieve multiaxis frictionless motion. Read more...

Cylindrical air bearings often find use among frictionless rotating supports such as spindles. Specialty Components, Inc.'s expanding standard product line offers the UTT series universal turntables with nanometric rotational accuracy and remarkably high stiffness. Utilizing both cylindrical and thrust surfaces, these bearings provide load capacities up to 230 lbf. Read more...

Linear air bearings from Specialty Components provide translation in a plane & are found in supports for coordinate measuring machines, semiconductor pick-and-place machinery, gantry systems, micromachining centers, zero-gravity simulators, etc. These air bearings are more accurate than even the finest mechanical rolling element type bearings. Read more...