Conveyor Skirting & Transfer Point Sealing

Almost all conveyor spillage happens at the transfer point, where material lands on the belt and tries to escape sideways. Skirting seals that zone: rigid boards guide the load, and sealing strips ride the belt edge to close the gap. We cut skirting boards and seal strips from UHMWPE and HDPE to your conveyor dimensions, ready to bolt to the existing steelwork.

Rubber skirt seals wear fast against abrasive product and grip the belt, stealing drive power and heating the belt edge. UHMWPE is several times more abrasion resistant and far slicker, so it seals with light contact pressure and glides rather than drags. The result is longer seal life, less belt wear, and fewer shutdowns to re-skirt the same transfer point.

A complete skirting system stacks three plastic elements: liner plates protecting the inside of the steel skirt boards from the material stream, the main skirt boards themselves, and the adjustable sealing strip that meets the belt. We cut all three, with slotted holes so the seal can be dropped as it wears, countersunk fixings that stay clear of the material flow, and angled ends where chutes converge.

A sealed load zone is the first line of dust control on any conveyor handling fines. Properly fitted skirting with a continuous UHMWPE seal dramatically cuts airborne dust at transfer points, easing housekeeping and helping sites meet dust exposure requirements without adding extraction capacity.

The same order can include the rest of the transfer point's plastic: deflector plates that centre the load on the belt, impact bed wear bars in UHMWPE, and side wear panels for the chute above. One drawing set, one delivery, everything labelled for the shutdown crew.

Catalogue skirting assumes a standard conveyor; real transfer points never are. Every set we supply is CNC routed from your dimensions: belt width, skirt length, board height, and your existing bolt pattern, so installation is bolts-in rather than drilling and fitting on the run.

Skirting is a consumable, so sites put it on a schedule. We supply full shutdown sets across multiple conveyors, labelled by transfer point, and standing orders that keep seal strip on the shelf between shutdowns. Quarry, grain, and mine sites across Australia run this way with us.

Skirting specs written around Polystone or Tivar are asking for UHMWPE. The trade names guide maps those brands to what we supply.

Get a quote for conveyor skirting. Send belt widths, board dimensions, and hole patterns, or the plant drawings, and we will price the full set with volume rates.