Increasing Screening Efficiency In Your Coal Operation…

Major Wire has the experienced and knowledgeable Territory Manager field support and Authorized Dealer Network to help you choose the right screen media option to solve your daily challenges as a coal producer. Upon request, these Major Wire experts can visit your operation and provide a no-cost plant performance audit of your screening needs to fine tune each screen’s production to its greatest potential.

Clay content within coal can cause severe blinding problems for both woven wire and polyurethane, resulting in significant lost screen capacity and hours of downtime to clean the screens. Coal is also very corrosive and quickly wears out woven wire screens. Some producers have increased the size of their woven wire screen boxes for greater capacity, but at great expense. Others have shifted to polyurethane panels for longer wear life; however, capacity is often greatly reduced in exchange for that added wear life.

Instead, coal can use Flex-Mat^® 3 High-Performance, Self-Cleaning Screen Media to solve these severe blinding problems because it increases throughput of spec product by up to 40% over woven wire or polyurethane panels by eliminating blinding, pegging and clogging. It lasts up to three times longer than woven wire because there are no cross wires with high wear spots as there are with woven wire. Combined with the added throughput and durability, Flex-Mat 3 is saving coal producers thousands of dollars per screen retrofit when compared to shifting to polyurethane systems or installing new screen boxes.

Flex-Mat 3 also has up to 30% more open area than either woven wire or polyurethane. Open area on a screen is directly related to its capacity, so every chance a particle has of contacting a screen opening increases the probability of its falling through. With more open area and wires that vibrate independently to help move the product through, Flex-Mat 3 generates greater capacity than any other screen media.

Because of coal’s corrosive properties, many coal producers opt for Flex-Mat 3 stainless steel wire for its tough wear characteristics. Depending on the spec product desired and the size of the original material, some producers choose either Flex-Mat 3 D or T (heavy-duty) configurations. Flex-Mat 3 D consistently produces accurate material separation, while Flex-Mat 3 T (heavy duty) is used in applications with high material impact on screens. Flex-Mat 3 T for fine screening reduces blinding of very fine material.

Calculate Your Production Results and see how Flex-Mat 3 can help your coal operation.