Equipment used in mineral extraction and processing faces heavy daily loads – impact, sliding abrasion, and exposure to chemical reagents. These factors accelerate wear of working components and drive continual repair costs. An effective solution is to install wear-resistant lining.
Liner plates extend equipment life, reduce downtime, and lower maintenance costs across the mining sector. Mining Element designs and supplies lining systems for screens, crushers, feeders, hoppers, and transfer points. The company produces both standard solutions (rubber, polyurethane, and steel) and reinforced linings with ceramic inserts, carbide elements, or magnetic fixation to deliver maximum protection under specific operating conditions.
All linings are manufactured to industry standards and tested in certified laboratories. We cooperate with an accredited lab equipped with the necessary test rigs and regularly audited procedures, enabling us to select optimal wear-resistant materials for each application.
Mining Element designs, manufactures, and supplies wear-resistant materials from advanced alloys for lining screens, hoppers, feeders, chutes, transfer points, and dozens of other equipment types.
Our partner laboratory is fully equipped for materials testing and undergoes regular inspections. Production processes follow industry standards. Thanks to these controls, we select the most suitable wear-resistant materials for parts that protect bulk-handling and discharge equipment.
Mining Element also offers modified options based on the linings above:
Rubber slabs — a standard solution in mining: they provide good wear resistance and excellent impact-energy damping.
Application: first and second crushing stages; zones with high impact and sliding abrasion; loading chutes, hoppers, storage tanks, and conveyor transfer points.
Rubber-ceramic slabs are ideal for high-throughput operations, combining rubber’s damping properties with the wear resistance of alumina ceramics.
Application : chutes, hoppers, trays, screen discharge pans, conveyor transfer points, deflectors, and screening chutes.
Polyurethane-ceramic slabs suit high-volume handling, combining polyurethane’s elasticity and damping with the wear resistance of alumina ceramics.
Application: chutes, hoppers, trays, screen discharge pans, conveyor transfer points, deflectors, and screening chutes.
Polyurethane slabs offer notable advantages over metal, rubber, and some other plastics: high abrasion resistance, tear resistance, impact-load reduction, and a wide hardness range.
Application : loading chutes, hoppers, and chutes for sticky and abrasive materials. Suitable for curved and concave surfaces.
Ultra-high-molecular-weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) slabs protect against wear from sliding friction and low-angle impact and help prevent sticking.
Application: loading chutes, dry-bulk storage bins, storage tanks, and trays for transporting fine fractions.
Wear-resistant steel linings are suitable for a wide range of applications – the material is highly resistant to abrasive wear and cracking. In production we use metallurgical steel refining and a proprietary quenching process, giving the linings uniform hardness and strength.
Application: drum housings, cement mixer shells, feeder blades, mine carts, screw conveyors for mining and earthmoving machinery.
Element’s bimetallic lining — a composite solution consisting of a structural-steel base with a special wear-resistant overlay deposited using automated equipment. Mining Element manufactures five types of bimetallic linings with homogeneous chemical composition and hardness: abrasion-resistant, high-strength, impact-resistant, heat-resistant (up to +900 °C), and a special grade. This special grade has unique characteristics that our experts can tune to customer requirements.
Application: linings for dump-truck bodies, excavator buckets, crushers, loading hoppers, storage bins, chutes, and mixers.
Rubber linings with ferrite magnets offer good wear and tear resistance. Their unique design allows fast installation and removal directly on equipment surfaces without extra fasteners. Low weight, strong protective properties, the ability to absorb impact loads, and corrosion resistance provide excellent protection for steel structures and reduce loads on supporting elements.
Application: feeders, hoppers, bulk-material transfer points in conveyor systems, discharge chutes of distribution units in crushing plants.
Rubber linings with wear-resistant steel inserts withstand impact loads and abrasive wear. Every transfer device has an “impact zone” – the spot where most of the material lands during conveying. This area experiences the most aggressive wear, up to through-holes. Due to their damping properties, rubber linings with steel inserts absorb impact energy.
Application: transfer and loading devices.
Polyurethane linings with PEEK are made from high-grade polyurethane and polyether ether ketone, enabling use in aggressive environments (salts, alkalis)
Application: transfer nodes and loading devices, chutes and slides.
The unique design provides uniform wear resistance. Fine rock particles pack between the carbide tips, creating a self-lining (autogenous shielding) effect that multiplies service life. After the carbide tips wear down, the underlying wear-resistant steel plates continue to protect the equipment, further extending service life.
Application: transfer devices, feeders, loading hoppers.
Cast-iron plates with ceramic inserts are used in the mining and cement industries.
Each panel consists of several ceramic elements encapsulated in a steel housing. With this design, only the top surface of the ceramic inserts is exposed to wear. The conical geometry of the ceramic elements locks them in place and prevents damage from material particles.
Application: transfer nodes and loading devices, chutes and slides.
There are three plate options for protecting different equipment zones from abrasive wear. A variety of liner geometries allows the most effective layout patterns on the protected surface to achieve the required result.
Application: excavator bucket linings.
Many factors affect equipment conditions at mining and processing plants: drop height, particle size, equipment throughput, impact angle, and more. Several thousand tonnes of rock pass through transfer points daily. Different areas of a system are exposed to two wear modes – abrasive and impact – so linings wear unevenly.
Combined wear-resistant materials provide the most effective protection against multiple wear types.
This tailored approach (matched to a site’s actual conditions) increases equipment service life, ensures reliable operation, and saves costs on frequent relining.