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CAPITAL EQUIPMENT NEWS
JANUARY 2017
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K
eeping your haul trucks
moving
with
maximum
availability and finding
ways to keep downtime to
a possible minimum, is an
important part of ensuring
good haul truck productivity. When it
comes to issues of haul truck uptime, one
critical issue that never gets the attention
it should is the lining change-out process
for truck bins. While it is not a regular
process to deal with, long shutdowns,
mainly due to welding work or time
consuming shipments of truck boxes for
box refurbishment and lining change-outs,
may wreak havoc to production timelines
due to the amount of downtime involved.
The Metso haul truck rubber lining is a
solution that acts as a barrier to protect
the truck bin from the repeated impact
and stress of loading and dumping heavy,
abrasive material that can cause expensive
damage to the box and truck as a whole.
Officially introduced locally at Electra
Mining Africa 2016 in September last
year, Metso’s modular rubber lining
system reduces impact, wear, carry-back
and noise. “It’s tough enough to squeeze
maximum profitability out of a mining or
aggregate operation. Unproductive trucks
make it even tougher,” reasons Julian
Steinmann, sales specialist, Screening
Media and Lining Solutions at Metso South
Africa, adding that Metso’s haul truck
rubber lining is designed to maximise the
availability of haul trucks, while reducing
service and maintenance.
Michael Gyberg, global support manager
Nordics, Europe, Africa & Middle East,
Screening Media and Lining Solutions at
Metso, says the Metso rubber lining was
developed from years of on-site experience
in some of the toughest conditions. The
optimised rubber lining is said to offer four or
more times service life than traditional steel
lining. “In addition, once it is time to make
any change-out, only a few individual lining
modules need to be replaced,” says Gyberg.
Savings abound
According to Gyberg, once the Mesto haul
truck lining has been installed, fleet owners
don’t need to worry about expensive
unplanned maintenance or regular lining
system adjustments. The modular design
makes the lining easier to install and
maintain than traditional steel options.
This is further boosted by the possibility to
only replace individual modules instead of
the entire lining.
“You can easily arrange for the quick
IMPROVING TRUCK BED
LONGEVITY
During loading and unloading, a dump truck bin receives the greatest amount
of wear from severe abrasion, while noise and vibrations have their fair
share of impact on the operator. With that in mind, Metso has launched its
haul truck rubber lining said to absorb impact way better than steel, writes
Munesu Shoko.
The Metso had truck rubber lining acts as a barrier to protect the
truck bin from impact and stress of loading and dumping.