Plastics for Construction & Heavy Equipment
Engineered plastics are used due to their desirable properties such as strength, durability, and versatility. They offer several benefits over traditional metals and other materials such as including weight savings, enhanced durability, noise reduction, sustainability, and cost-effectiveness.
Plastic Benefits
- Weight Reduction
- Reduced Noise
- Corrosion resistant
- Superior Sliding Properties
- Reduced wear on mating parts
- Extreme impact resistant
- High strength
- High wear resistant
- No external lubrication required
- Reduced maintenance cost
Applications for Plastics in Construction & Heavy Equipment
- Bushings and bearings
- Wear Pads
- High Impact resistant windows
- Liners
- Sheaves
- Chutes
- Cushion pads (pile-driving equipment)
- Grating
- Guarding
- Outrigger pads