Aggregates & Mining

Processing and handling aggregates such as sand, gravel, limestone, silicates, gypsum is an arduous environment which requires components that are made to withstand these tough conditions.

Our engineers have helped many customers overcome particulary challenging problems, taking time to investigate and often offering custom-tailored solutions.

4B can offer a range of abrasion resistant, heavy duty components, that are made to last and help to avoid unnecessary downtimes.

4B also has a range of heavy-duty hazard monitoring sensors and controls for preventative maintenance.

These systems flag up any hazards such as overheated bearings, belt misalignment, etc so that any failures can be fixed in time before they lead to break-downs, downtimes and potential injury to personnel.

Industry projects
heavy duty forged chain
conveyor chain
maintenance
Chain Conveyor Upgrade - Corrosive Products

Customer was struggling with their conveyors transporting a corrosive by-product of crude oil processing. The chain was breaking and wearing fast, causing much downtime. 4B heavy duty links with corrosion-resistant pins and circlips improved the conveyor life by at least 50%.

asphalt processing plant
elevator design
engineering
sps buckets
Elevator handling recycled asphalt planings

Design for a new elevator handling recycled asphalt planings (RAP). Recommending speed, power requirements, shaft & casing sizes, and component specifications (SPS steel buckets and NBR belting), 4B engineers helped the customer to achieve the desired capacity of 250 tph. 

Consol Glass production site
elevator retro-fit
nyrim buckets
Bucket Elevator Upgrade

Consol Glass were experiencing continuous belt breakages and downtime due elevator repairs and maintenance. 4B came up with a revised retrofit design on the elevator components, including AD400 Nyrim buckets and high quality elevator belting.

mining
Nyrim buckets
elevator efficiency
Bucket Elevator Efficiency Improvement

A potash fertiliser elevator was using solid hardox elevator buckets which were expensive and wearing quickly causing loss of production. 4B solved the problem with wear resistant, self-cleaning Nyrim buckets - fitted with a steel wearband for excellent impact resistance.

Products for
Aggregates & Mining

4B Pullswitch PST2000A

The Pullswitch is a failsafe taut wire emergency pull cord safety stop switch for open conveyors.

4b drop forged conveyor chains

Drop forged chain is either supplied with welded flights or with bolt-on flights (

Bulldog - Conveyor Belt Misalignment & Rip Detection System
The Bulldog alignment and rip detection switch is an electro-mechanical system designed to detect dangerous misalignment of the conveyor and also detection of belt tear damage.
Starco Jumbo (SJ) elevator bucket

Deep drawn solid steel elevator bucket, designed to replace large fabricated elevator buckets.

4B AD elevator bucket
The 4B AD industrial duty super tough elevator bucket is manufactured from "Nyrim" is impact, corrosion and abrasion-resistant and suitable for the toughest applications.
Rotech shaft encoder - aluminium

The 4B heavy duty aluminium Rotech rotary shaft encoder is used primarily for protecting equipmen

Rotech shaft encoder - stainless steel

The 4B heavy duty stainless steel Rotech rotary shaft encoder is used primarily for protecting eq

4B bearing temperature sensors

Overheated bearings are one of the main risk factors for dust explosions in bucket elevators and

4b drop forged conveyor chains

Drop forged chain is either supplied with welded flights or with bolt-on flights (

4B forged chain double link

Same strength and durability as 4B's standard forged chain links.

4B forged chain triple link

Same quality, strength and durability as 4B's standard links.

sprocket for drop forged chain

4B sprockets and trailers are manufactured from high grade heat treated steel to a minimum hardne

trailer for forged chains

4B sprockets and trailing wheels are manufactured from high grade heat treated steel to a minimum

Manganese rails for conveyor chains

Manganese Wear Rails for conveyor chains. - ‘V’ Groove.

Sizes available:

4B AD elevator bucket
The 4B AD industrial duty super tough elevator bucket is manufactured from "Nyrim" is impact, corrosion and abrasion-resistant and suitable for the toughest applications.
4B AM elevator bucket

Suitable for the very toughest of industrial applications. 

Starco Jumbo (SJ) elevator bucket

Deep drawn solid steel elevator bucket, designed to replace large fabricated elevator buckets.

Polypenco elevator bucket

Polypenco Nylatron cast nylon elevator buckets are designed for tough long life solutions for ind

4B AC Nylathane elevator bucket

High performance AC style Nylathane™ elevator bucket featuring a unique combination of mecha

MF Nylathane™  Elevator Buckets

Medium front design; industrial duty tough Nylathane™ buckets.

AA Nylathane elevator bucket

High performance, severe duty AA style Nylathane™ bucket with reinforced front lip for unsur

steel web elevator belt

4B's STEEL WEB belt is a rubber elevator belt with a special steel cord core.

SBR elevator belt

4B elevator belting is of laminar construction, to give high impact resistance coupled with low s

BC elevator belt fastener

The Braime Clamp (BC) series of heavy duty belt splices securely fastens belting on larger bucket

elevator bolts

4B is the only original manufacturer of the most well known e

4B Pullswitch PST2000A

The Pullswitch is a failsafe taut wire emergency pull cord safety stop switch for open conveyors.

Bulldog - Conveyor Belt Misalignment & Rip Detection System
The Bulldog alignment and rip detection switch is an electro-mechanical system designed to detect dangerous misalignment of the conveyor and also detection of belt tear damage.
4b Touchswitch sensor
The Touchswitch is an electro-mechanical limit switch, which detects tracking and misalignment problems on bucket elevators and conveyors.
Rotech shaft encoder - aluminium

The 4B heavy duty aluminium Rotech rotary shaft encoder is used primarily for protecting equipmen

Rotech shaft encoder - stainless steel

The 4B heavy duty stainless steel Rotech rotary shaft encoder is used primarily for protecting eq

Rotech wheel encoder

Return-belt mounted heavy-duty belt speed monitor.

4B DESIGN SERVICES

We have designed hundreds of bucket elevators for all industries, including Animal Feed, Grain Handling, Flour Milling, Malting & Brewing through to Cement, Coal and other heavy industries.

Take advantage of 4B’s free, guaranteed worldwide technical support service from a team of engineers specialising in the design and calculation of bucket elevators. Using your key technical data, our engineers can give you a detailed technical recommendation for the ideal bucket elevator with the ideal capacity and discharge characteristics. We can either design your new bucket elevator or help you to increase the capacity of your existing elevator.

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