High performance engineering plastics that don't
corrode and never need lubrication are making inroads into mining
and minerals processing applications once exclusively the preserve
of metals.
Their many advantages include: good wear characteristics, light
weight, low friction, low inertia, long operational life and FRAS
materials. These superior characteristics are why plastics are
replacing phosphor bronze, stainless steel and other metals in
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Safeguard
PC:
Strongest & safest rigid
see-through material
- 250 times the impact strength of glass of equal thickness
- 30-40 times higher impact strength than clear acrylic sheet
- Maintains its high impact strength even after long outdoor
periods
- Easily fashioned for applications ranging from guards on
machinery to see-through doors and hatches
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Ertalon and Nylatron
The range of Ertalon and Nylatron stock shapes can be
engineered to suit applications requiring high mechanical
strength, stiffness hardness and toughness, fatigue resistance,
high mechanical damping ability, good sliding properties,
electrical insulating, dielectric properties and excellent
wear resistance.
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families have been successfully employed as:
- Wear pads as side guides, rollers,
conveyors, presses and telescopic booms
- Gears on winders, lifts and escalators, and in drives
for processing equipment
- Bearings or bushes, where the materials have found
extensive uses in draglines, cranes, rolling stock,
earthmoving equipment and processing machinery
- Pulleys and sheaves for overhead cables, or as rollers
for electric hoists, conveyor components, boring and
bolting equipment, and heavy duty sections on draglines.
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Polystone for
optimum sliding qualities.
The ultra high molecular weight (UHMW) family of Polystone plastics
is especially formulated for optimum sliding characteristics
and resistance to wear, abrasion and environmental stress cracking.
This means it is ideally suited to mechanical transmission support
products and to flow promotion.
Key features and
benefits of the material include:
- Impact strength combined with light weight.
- Weatherproof - it doesn't absorb water
- Chemically resistant
- Abrasion resistant - rated better than carbon steel for sliding
abrasion applications
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An important area in which UHMW plastics are
increasingly important is in dump trucks, trailers, hoppers
and bins for flow promotion where common problems include product
sticking, rat-holing and generally clogging processes that require
a smooth flow of material. |
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