SKIRTING ENGINEERED POLYURETHANE CASE STUDY PRODUCT: PRODUCT CATEGORY: LOCATION: CONVEYED MATERIALS: CONVEYED BELT WIDTH: LENGTH AT TRANSFER POINT: CONVEYED BELT SPEED: RATE: BELT DOWNTIME: COMPULSORY CHANGE-OUT TIME: INSTALLATION DATE: PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: Skirting Engineered Polyurethane Conveyor Skirting & Transfer Port of Gladstone, Queensland, Australia Coal 94.5” (2400mm) 23 feet (7 meters (3.5m x 2)) 1025 feet per minute (5.2 meters per second) 6000 tons per hour 2 hours for skirting replacement Every 5 weeks September 2008 Gladstone Ports Corporation was looking to improve its bulk materials handling pro- cesses. One of the areas under examination was the conveyor system with a focus on how to make it safer, more reliable and improve its overall performance and uptime. In Septembe

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