Surface coatings for the mining industry
Mining gear leads a hard life. Between abrasive ore, acidic process water, constant vibration and the weather, the metal takes a beating long before anyone thinks about how it was finished. A coating that fails early on a remote site is rarely just a coating problem, because the real cost sits in the downtime and the labour it takes to pull a component out and send it back.
We coat mining components from our Dandenong South facility, working to the specification you supply or helping you settle on one that suits the service conditions.
Surface preparation comes first
Most coating failures in mining trace back to preparation rather than the coating itself. Our abrasive blasting rooms strip mill scale, rust and old coatings back to a clean surface, leaving the anchor pattern the next layer needs to key into. For components heading into corrosive conditions, a zinc or iron phosphate pre-treatment adds another layer of protection underneath the finish.
Coatings that handle abrasion and corrosion
Different components fail in different ways, so the system is matched to the job rather than applied across the board.
For structural steel, housings and general plant, our protective coatings cover zinc, epoxy, polyurethane and polysiloxane systems from PPG, Dulux, Jotun and Hempel. Where corrosion is the main enemy, our corrosion protection work extends past application to inspection, testing and reporting, so you have documentation to go with the finish.
For components where heat, chemicals or abrasion rule out a standard system, specialised coatings give you options built for performance rather than appearance.
Threaded components and moving parts
Fasteners cause a lot of grief on mine sites. Seized studs and galled threads turn a routine shutdown into a long one.
Our fastener class coating line runs phosphate, blast, spray, dip spin and oven facilities in-house, so bolts, studs and threaded components move through one process. Dry-film lubricants add low friction to the same components, which means predictable torque and threads that come apart when you need them to.
On the product side, Ever-Slik gives corrosion, chemical and abrasion resistance in its 1201 epoxy, with 1301 available as a bonded solid film lubricant for heavy duty use. Lubecote 240, known in the trade as Moly or Molybond, bonds a molybdenum disulphide barrier to the metal and carries very high loads. Where corrosion resistance matters at low film thickness, Zinc Flake avoids hydrogen embrittlement altogether.
Batch sizes and turnaround
We run some of the largest coating booths and batch ovens in Australia, so production runs and oversized components are handled in-house rather than split across suppliers. Everything is processed under an ISO 9001 accredited quality management system, which matters when your own client needs evidence of what was applied and how.
Send through your drawings or specification and we will work out the right system for the conditions.
