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[February 2005]
Porous Ceramic Gives More Drive, Less Maintenance
MHP - Materials Handling Products Ltd (Swadlincote, Derbys, England) has teamed up with Micke Bruehmann GmbH to add brand new porous ceramic pulley laggings to its existing range. These laggings look set to become the standard high tech applications because they offer greatly increased drive and reduced wear and maintenance for conveyors.
Porous ceramic performs better than any other pulley laggings in wet conditions and can achieve unprecedented levels of drive with a coefficient of friction greater than 1. In addition, the granular composition of the sinterfused-bonded ceramic particles (MHP Ceralite) means the material maintains its grip far longer over their entire 10mm block thickness than patterned/dimpled ceramic tiles or rubber.
Managing Director Brian Mackenzie explains: "The ceramic particles in MHP Ceralite are held in an organic binder or in the latest version, MHP Ceragrip, an inorganic hi-temp fused binder. The result is far harder, stronger and more hardwearing than anything that has gone before. It gives better performance in terms of both drive and life and can easily be fitted to existing systems to solve long standing problems relating to drive or maintenance".
The product is so advanced in terms of technical performance that a paper is being presented to the Materials Handling Engineers' Association at its Technical Awareness Seminar in May this year. Porous ceramic pulley laggings have recently been fitted to the longest conveyor bridges in the world at a lignite mine in Germany in order to move the highly abrasive overburden across the mining valley at 9.8m/s belt speeds and interest continues to grow from across Europe.www.m-h-p.co.uk
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