At a glance
- Non-stick truck body liners prevent material hang-ups by ensuring smoother flow of sticky and abrasive mining materials during tipping.
- UHMWPE-based liners offer a low-friction surface that reduces material sticking in truck beds and corners, welds, and surface irregularities.
- Impact-resistant design protects against dents and gouges, which commonly trap residual materials and disrupt unloading.
- Investing in non-stick liners improves operational efficiency, lowers maintenance costs, enhances safety, and extends equipment lifespan in mining fleets.
When you operate in the mining industry, you regularly deal with wet coal, sticky clay, or fragmented ore. While dealing with these materials, one persistent problem continues to plague fleets across mining operations: material hang-ups in truck beds.
A material hang-up appears when truck materials do not empty during the tipping process. The result? An increased number of cleaning cycles, with added work for employees, equipment wear, and safety hazards. These high-moisture, sticky materials are common in mining and require a dependable solution.
That’s where non-stick truck body liners, like the ones engineered by OKUSLIDE®, come into play. In this blog, we will discuss why non-stick truck body liners are the best option for preventing material hang-ups in the mining industry.
The Challenge of Material Hang-Ups in Mining
Mining operations often involve loading and tipping sticky and abrasive materials. This can range from coal and wet clay to metal and mineral ores. It’s common for damp mining materials to accumulate on truck frames. This material build-up not only causes waste but also increases the risk of operational issues. Material hang-ups can occur as a result, leading to severe consequences, such as:
- Incomplete discharge during tipping requires manual intervention, causing delays and increased labour costs.
- Residual materials can lead to corrosion. This accelerates equipment deterioration.
- Operators may need to enter hazardous zones to address hang-ups, elevating the risk of accidents.
How Non-Stick Truck Body Liners Prevent Material Hang-Ups
UHMWPE-based non-stick liners provide effective solutions to the recurring problem of material hang-ups, especially in mining operations. Truck body liners from OKUSLIDE® made from UHMWPE boost operational speed by preventing material hang-ups while delivering enduring protection and safe working conditions. Let’s understand how:
Low Friction Coefficient of Non-Stick Liners For Enhanced Material Flow
The UHMWPE-based liners or the non-stick liners have a low friction coefficient, which significantly reduces the possibility of materials sticking to the truck bed. The liner’s non-stick properties help material flow out smoothly during tipping, even when transporting challenging loads. This significantly prevents hang-ups and can be instrumental in reducing downtime.
The mining industry deals with materials like wet soil, coal, and other naturally sticky or abrasive materials. Using a traditional liner can result in lower material flow and, as a result, material sticking. These situations call for a solution like non-stick truck body liners.
UHMWPE non-stick truck liners offer better material flow than aluminium and steel liners. To be more precise, the non-stick liners are 60% more slippery than steel and 70% more slippery than aluminium.
Furthermore, the system decreases additional stress on the hoist while eliminating extra unloading needs, such as additional labour for the cleanup.
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Impact-Resistant Design Avoids Dents That Trap Material
In a mining environment, truck bodies endure intense physical stress. Loads made of rock, gravel, or mineral ore are heavy and often abrasive. When dropped into a truck bed, these materials can cause visible damage, like dents and gouges in traditional steel and aluminium liners. These deformations may seem minor at first, but quickly become trap points where residual build-up occurs and causes hang-ups.
This is where the performance of UHMWPE truly stands out. These truck liners have exceptional impact resistance, so they don’t dent or crack under pressure. Instead, they absorb the impact and return to their original form, maintaining a smooth and even surface after countless load cycles. This impact resilience helps eliminate the uneven surfaces and ridges that contribute to material sticking.
Over time, this impact-resistant performance leads to smoother, more consistent tipping with fewer interruptions. That’s why the impact-resistant design of non-stick truck body liners is a key factor in helping to prevent material hang-ups and keeping mining operations running efficiently.
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Preventing Build-Up in Corners, Welds, and Surface Irregularities
Material hang-ups often begin in overlooked areas such as corners, weld lines, and surface irregularities. These spots act as catch points where wet clay, coal, or ore can easily lodge, particularly during tipping. Over time, even small build-ups in these areas can escalate into full-scale unloading issues.
Non-stick truck body liners help address these problem zones by providing a continuous, low-friction surface. Made from UHMWPE, they are installed to cover weld seams, smooth corners, and reduce the impact of surface irregularities that typically trap material.
This consistent surface allows for faster, more complete discharge of loads, reducing the need for secondary tipping or manual clearing. For mining fleets, this translates into improved turnaround times and more efficient operations, particularly when handling moisture-heavy or abrasive materials.
Long-Term Benefits of Investing in Non-Stick Liners
The benefits of having a non-stick liner in your mining fleet go beyond solving the immediate problem of hang-ups. When you view the non-stick liners through the lens of operational costs and risk mitigation, there is some significant ROI it brings:
- The equipment requires less maintenance due to its higher wear resistance, which results in lower repair costs and minimal downtime.
- The practice of completely emptying a loaded vehicle provides an exact measurement of truck weight so organisations can enhance operational planning.
- With non-stick liners, trucks can handle tipping operations more securely because this prevents operators from carrying out dangerous manual clearing.
- The truck bed can be protected from corrosion and impact, extending the equipment’s service life.
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Preventing material hang-ups is a top priority in the mining industry. If you’re in a similar business, the heavy-duty solutions of OKUSLIDE® liners are designed particularly for intensive operations that are common in mining facilities. Designed for general fleet use across multiple load types, OKUSLIDE® liners combine excellent wear resistance with high impact tolerance and low friction coefficient, perfect for multi-purpose mining fleets.
Explore OKUSLIDE®’s non-stick truck body liners to avoid material hang-ups for your mining business, or get in touch to find out more products for your operation.
