Airfloat's high performance Air Bearings use a continuous flowing film of air between a flexible diaphragm and the floor surface, allowing virtually friction-free movement.
How Air Bearings Work
Simple, Cost-Effective Solutions For Heavy Problems.
Move heavy loads, speed up operations, and increase productivity
Airfloat Air Bearings are a brilliantly simple, hardworking, load-moving solution that enables you to do more with less. And that's a key element with our technology keeping your operation moving forward. Remarkably, air bearings need very little force to move the heaviest of loads – and the advantages add up quickly.
Advantages from the use of Air Bearings
Air bearings allow for Omni-directional positioning of your equipment or product, eliminating the need for overhead cranes, wheeled carts, dollies and fork trucks. This eliminates maintenance of all of this equipment, while also eliminating the wear and tear or damage on your floor.
The load bearings are limitless
500,000 pounds, 1,000,000 pounds, the weights handled by Airfloat Air Bearings have proven limitless. Because we deliver solutions via technology development and design and build in our facility, our solutions will elevate your company's lean manufacturing efforts.
Surfaces easily accept Air Bearing movement
A sampling of industries benefiting from Airfloat's Air Bearing technology:
Aero-Space • Agriculture • Appliance • Automotive • Chemical • Construction Electronics • Food • Furniture • Modular/Mobile/Prefabricated Homes • Nuclear Printing • Rigging • Ship Building • Steel • Theater & Stadium Seating