Why Plastics and Composites for the Mining Industry?
With large, heavy equipment such as rigid frame haul trucks, excavators, front-end loaders, drag lines, and bulk material handling equipment, there are many challenges to maintaining mining production & managing unwanted downtime in surface and underground mining operations.
Plastics and composites are used throughout the Mining Industry to enhance mining efficiency and reduce downtime. They are commonly used to reduce wear problems in bushing and bearing applications with self-lubricating, low-friction plastics and composites, reduce abrasive wear from bulk materials with abrasion-resistant plastics, and eliminate chemical and corrosion problems with chemical-resistant plastics.
Composite bearings materials like CIP™ composites, Nylon, and other plastics are utilized to replace bronze in bearing and wear applications to extend wear life with their self-lubricating, low friction, and wear-resistant properties to eliminate unwanted failures and downtime of bushings and bearings in conveyors, mining equipment, heavy equipment, crushers, sliding gates, etc.
As well as solving bulk material flow problems with sticking bulk materials by eliminating carryback in haul trucks, drag-line, and excavator buckets, and significantly reducing or eliminating bulk material flow problems in hoppers and chutes with low friction plastic lining materials. In addition, many of these materials are offered in high-visibility colors for improved safety.
Why Boedeker Plastics, Inc. for the Mining Industry?
Since 1984, we have worked closely with Engineering, Maintenance, and Supply Chain personnel in all segments of surface and underground mining to help reduce downtime and increase mining efficiency with our materials, parts, and services.
