Lagging Select: Smart Solutions, Proven Performance
https://youtu.be/OHlKU7oq5d4 Getting It Right from the Start with Lagging Select This is what confidence looks like. At Elastotec, we don’t just supply lagging – we make sure it’s the right lagging for every application. Our sales team uses Lagging Select, our in-house precision software, every single day – sometimes multiple times a day – to […]
Lagging Select: What Traditional Conveyor Designs Misses
Is your conveyor truly protected from belt and lagging damage — or just barely avoiding slip? Conveyor drive systems are often designed using traditional torque transfer calculations like Euler’s equation, supported by CEMA guidelines. These methods help prevent full slip between belt and pulley. But what they don’t show is the localised slip that silently […]
Case Study: How Lagging Select can De-Risk an Entire Mining Operation
When lagging fails, it’s not just the lagging you lose – it’s time, money, and production. A large Australian gold mine upgraded their conveyor to increase throughput from 4,600 to 5,150 tph. The belt was upgraded, but the pulley lagging selection relied purely on historical use – no analysis was done to confirm if it […]
Elastotec Lagging – Hot Vulcanised Ceramic Lagging
A large bauxite mine in Australia, running an overland conveyor with an ST3600 belt, 1050mm wide, has successfully introduced Elastotec Hot Vulcanised Ceramic Pulley Lagging to one of its sites.
Large Gold Mine in Australia – increased service life of pulleys with Elastotec/PROK HVCL
One of the largest gold mines in Australia, located in southeast of Perth, produces around 750,000 ounces of gold annually and 80 million pounds of copper and has a workforce of 2,000 people. This mine has an expected life of 20 years.
Hot Vulcanised Ceramic Lagging – the road to increased conveyor availability
A large bauxite mine in Australia, running an overland conveyor with an ST3600 belt, 1050mm wide, has successfully introduced Elastotec Hot Vulcanised Ceramic Pulley Lagging to one of its sites.
Iron Ore Port Facility High Tension Bend Pulley – Elastotec Polyurethane Lagging
In November 2017 a major iron ore port facility in the Pilbara decided to replace the ceramic lagging on a high tension bend pulley – the ceramic lagging had suffered physical damage on one edge that had exposed the pulley shell. With a capacity of around 180 million tonnes/annum of iron ore the port operates 24/7 year round and so reliability of the conveyor system is critical to achieving the maximum ore through put.
Consequences of Catastrophic Failure with Cold Bonded Lagging for New Mining Projects
Catastrophic lagging failure due to debonding occurred within two weeks of installation and operation of the pulley, resulting in a shutdown of production, and necessitated a replacement of the pulley. Within only two weeks of service, this ceramic lagging was already experiencing loss of the ceramic tiles.
Curragh coal mine – improved service life of conveyor pulleys
The Curragh Coal Mine is an open cut coal mine located near Blackwater in Central Queensland, Australia. The mine supplies high quality, low ash coking coal and has reserves of approximately 90 million tonnes which is amongst the largest in the world. Coal from Curragh is shipped via the Blackwater rail system to the Port of Gladstone for export. Curragh Coal mine is owned by the Coronado Coal Group a US based company.
Oyu Tolgoi High Tension Bend Pulleys – Improved Performance
Oyu Tolgoi is a large copper mine that has both open-cut and underground operations and has been operating since 2013. The mine is jointly owned by the Mongolian government and Rio Tinto and is located in the South Gobi Desert. Once fully operational, the mine is expected to produce 450,000 tonnes of copper annually.