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Are You Maximizing Runtime with a Polyurethane Liner?

Every industry strives to minimize equipment outages in order to maximize runtime. This approach results in the most efficient and cost-effective operations. One of the challenges to maximizing runtime in the transport sector is wear issues. Equipment wear and tear is often caused by repeated exposure to abrasive or corrosive materials as well as damage from recurring impacts over time. Fortunately, polyurethane liners provide the transport and materials movement sector equipment protection that results in fewer downtimes and longer lifespans.

Advantages of Polyurethane Liners

Simply put, urethane liners protect equipment from wear and tear, and offer the best abrasion resistance the industry has to offer. Urethane liners are preferred in many transport situations and deliver many advantages including:

  • Superb Abrasion Resistance: urethane has great abrasion and wear resistance, resulting in maximum equipment runtime. There are two types of abrasion: sliding and impingement.  Sliding abrasion refers to scraping and rubbing, while impingement abrasion refers to particles or objects striking the urethane surface at a high angle. Most wear during operations is from a combination of both sliding and impingement – and urethane liners provide excellent protection from both.
  • Excellent Strength & Impact Resistance: plastics often crack or break under impact loading or stress, especially at higher durometers (hardness). Conversely, polyurethane is not brittle and will maintain its strength and impact resistance over a range of durometers.
  • Outstanding Resistance to Chemicals: urethane provides excellent resistance to oils, solvents, grease, and other contaminants. Additionally, urethane is also able to maintain its shape with little swelling, if any, when it contacts water or oils. Visit our website to learn more about polyurethane’s chemical capability.
  • Strong Resistance to the Elements and Corrosion: other materials, like rubber, are more susceptible to degradation due to environmental factors. Polyurethane, on the other hand, is resistant to weather conditions such as extreme low and high operating temperatures, ozone, UV rays, and humidity – making urethane a viable material for applications nearly anywhere in the world.
  • Great Noise Reduction: urethane offers great shock absorption and noise dampening, resulting in a much quieter operating environment.
  • Self-healing: urethane is durable, tear-resistant, and self-healing, meaning it “heals” itself when nicked or cut, reducing the risk of contamination from the surface flaking or chipping during service.
  • Low Coefficient of Friction: At PSI, we can formulate urethanes with low coefficients of friction for a variety of surface types.

Is your team looking for a urethane manufacturer to help with a custom urethane product?

Contact the experts at PSI today to learn more about our custom urethane solutions.

 

Common Applications for Polyurethane Liners

Many sectors that handle or transport bulk materials rely on polyurethane liners for the equipment protection and longevity it offers – including the mining, grain, concrete, construction, and gravel industries.

At PSI, our polyurethane liners are utilized in fan and pump housings, cyclones, semi-trailers, screen frames, steel hoppers, dump trucks, concrete hoppers, tanks, grain bowls, pipes, potable water systems, and centrifugal finishing machines – just to name a few. Additionally, polyurethane liners are frequently used in conveyor bucket applications. For example, tool manufacturers often place urethane liners in the bucket to absorb the shock as heavy parts come off the assembly line.

Whether you need a drop-in liner, bolt-in liner, or a liner that satisfies FDA requirements, PSI’s urethane liners can be customized to fit your application and offer superior performance to help reduce equipment downtime and material costs. Additionally, our polyurethane liners are lightweight and can be bonded to existing equipment to give it new life.

About PSI Urethanes

With over 50 years of experience delivering the highest quality urethane products, PSI Urethanes stands unequaled in helping companies in hundreds of industries around the world apply urethane products to their critical business applications. Since 1966, through our own independent research and activity in the Polyurethane Manufacturers Association, PSI Urethanes has stayed on the leading edge of urethane technology – including developing advances in new materials, comprehensive designs, and processing technologies. Today we are among the most respected and trusted suppliers of custom urethane products.

We operate from our 45,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Austin, Texas, which houses an extensive stock of polyurethane products. Our fully equipped manufacturing facility includes a versatile range of processing machinery, which allows us to work on unique, one-of-a-kind projects, as well as high volume components. Our in-house engineering, tooling, and custom mold shop, produces custom and stock production orders with exceptionally fast turn-around times. From conception to prototyping, to final production runs, our technical representatives and design engineers will work closely with your staff to meet your critical tolerances and specifications. You are guaranteed to receive experienced, professional, and personalized service from the first contact through your on-time delivery, with complete confidentiality and dedication to protecting your good name.

PSI Urethanes specializes in custom urethane projects. Contact us today to see how we can help with your next project, or give us a call at 1-800-888-5156.