Posted by Daniel Gleeson on thirtieth October 2024
MAJOR, a producer of wire display screen media, has launched a sophisticated polyurethane (PU) strip variant for the FLEX-MAT Modular sequence that, the corporate says, will increase the display screen media’s sturdiness, extending its lifespan and effectiveness in moist and corrosive environments.
“Whereas most display screen media present wonderful sturdiness, we observed accelerated put on in some corrosive functions,” Kevin Laporte, MAJOR R&D Supervisor, stated. “We instantly started testing to create a corrosive-resistant different we may turn into a brand new polyurethane variant. The brand new polyurethane strips would enable these specialty operations to profit from FLEX-MAT’s productivity-boosting qualities whereas nonetheless maximising uptime.”
The superior PU strip options higher chemical stability to enhance efficiency in alkaline, acidic and moist environments, equivalent to limestone operations. Superior sturdiness extends the general put on lifetime of display screen media in functions the place the PU strips usually put on out earlier than the metal wire and have an effect on the integrity of the display screen media, the corporate added.
OPTIMUMWIRE bonds to the lime inexperienced PU strips to supply greater wire vibration than woven wire display screen media, MAJOR claims. The chemical compound developed for its superior PU strips maintain up effectively towards corrosive supplies to make sure the strips match the lifespan of MAJOR’s OPTIMUMWIRE® and keep screening integrity longer, as much as 10 occasions in some circumstances. The brand new sturdiness of the PU strips nonetheless permits the identical flexibility as our customary possibility so the wires can vibrate freely.
The excessive frequency of the OPTIMUMWIRE wire stays – 8,000 to 10,000 cycles per minute – to hurry up materials separation and passing.
Like MAJOR’s customary polyurethane composition, the superior PU strips can be found for the FLEX-MAT Modular D, S and T Sequence. The brand new variant is just not meant to fully exchange the usual polyurethane.
The very best use of the superior PU strips is when operations are screening corrosive or moist supplies or when the operation notices their polyurethane is breaking down quicker than the metal wire, in keeping with Ian Edwards, Vice President of World Gross sales. “Most often, the usual polyurethane strip possibility continues to carry out optimally for our clients,” he added.
All FLEX-MAT display screen media function the corporate’s signature FLEX-MAT ID Enabled know-how with an RFID tag embedded within the body. This know-how permits clients to simply entry product info by scanning the RFID chip with The MAJOR App. Clients then have entry to all display screen media specs and the power to reorder with out the necessity to climb onto the display screen for bodily measurements.
