UHMWPE strip is an engineering plastic with exceptional properties, and the strips are used in highly specific, demanding industrial applications where their unique characteristics solve major friction and wear problems.
Here are the most common and critical uses for UHMWPE strips:
This is the largest application area. UHMWPE strips are used to line surfaces where things need to slide smoothly with minimal resistance and wear.
Guide Rails & Wear Strips: Attached to the sides of conveyor belts to guide packages, boxes, or bags. Their low friction prevents items from getting stuck or torn.
Chain Guides/Rails: Used in conveyor chains to reduce friction, noise, and power consumption, significantly increasing the life of both the chain and the guide.
Sliding Surfaces & Beds: Lining the beds of assembly lines or accumulation tables where products need to slide freely.
Hopper and Chute Liners: Used in agriculture, mining, and chemical processing to line chutes where abrasive materials (like grain, coal, or gravel) flow. The material's slickness prevents buildup and blocks.
UHMWPE strips are used as replacement parts for metal, offering "maintenance-free" operation.
Wear Strips & Slides: Mounted on machine tools, CNC routers, and other equipment to protect more expensive metal components from wear and tear. They are essential on the sliding surfaces of dump truck beds and tipper trailers to protect the metal floor from abrasive loads.
Gears and Sprockets: Especially in food processing or packaging machinery where metal lubrication would cause contamination.
Bearings and Bushings: In applications where lubrication is impossible or undesirable, such as in water treatment plants, marine environments, or food-grade equipment.
Truck Bed Liners: Strips are often bolted or bonded to the floor and walls of truck trailers to protect them from damage during loading and unloading and to allow cargo to slide in and out more easily.
Snow Plow Skids/Shoes: Attached to the bottom of snow plows to slide smoothly over the road surface, protecting the blade and the pavement.
Sports Equipment: Used as low-friction slides on the bottom of sleds, skis, and snowboards.
Marine & Dock Fendering: Used as a low-friction, impact-absorbing strip between a boat and a dock or between two structural components.
