Wear protection for open-pit mining equipment

Excavators · Crushers · Conveyors · Hoppers
Abrasive wear
Impact loads
Erosive wear

Rock and ore destroy equipment faster than planned. Buckets, chutes and crushers wear through in weeks, causing unplanned stoppages, frequent part replacements and rising maintenance costs

WFM engineered solutions protect the highest-load zones, extending service life by 3–5×

Every stage
of your process
is losing money
to wear

From the bucket that loads the ore to the
conveyor that moves it, every stage
contains high-wear zones
that shorten
equipment life and increase maintenance

Impact wear
Loading, extraction and hauling
Excavator buckets · Loader
buckets · Cutting edges ·
Bucket floors and sidewalls ·
Dump truck bodies · Unloading
zones · Drop zones
Abrasive wear
Transfer and transport
Transfer chutes · Conveyor
troughs and liners · Roller
zones · Loading and unloading
zones · Flow guides · Transport
boxes and chutes
Impact + abrasion
Crushing and screening
Jaw, cone and rotary crushers ·
Feed hoppers · Discharge
chutes · Vibrating feeders ·
Screen decks · Crusher liners
and protective linings
Erosive wear
Storage and accumulation
Hoppers · Silos · Loading
and unloading pockets ·
Material flow guides

Typical
production flow

Typical production process with
the main wear zones highlighted

Describe your wear zone. We’ll select
the right grade and send a tailored
proposal within one business day.

Most wear problems come from using
the wrong grade in the wrong zone.
We fix that by matching material to
actual operating conditions.