Quarrying

Quarrying relies on being able to extract the earth’s natural raw materials from the ground which requires heavy duty specialist machinery to do so. These machines need to drill, cut and crush extremely hard materials and therefore a bi product of this is extreme dynamic loading onto the machinery as well as constant vibration.

The need for the machines to work long hours with little down time is essential to keeping the processing costs down and means that having the right bolt security product is critical. The WL Series wedge locking washer provides a great solution to these applications with its wide range of sizes.

Typical applications in the Quarrying industry for Wedge Locking washers are the use on Shaker Screens and also on the heavy-duty extracting machinery to maintain the pre-load in the bolted joints. They are also used on crushing machines such as Jaw Crushers, Cone Crushers and Impact Crushers.