Rubber & Elastomer Repair

Bulk-handling equipment wears from the inside out. Sliding and impact abrasion strips rubber linings off chutes, hoppers, and slurry housings. Once the lining is gone, the bare steel underneath loses metal fast. On the belt itself, gouges, rips, and worn top covers let cargo spill, and the damage spreads until the belt gets scrapped or the line stops. AAS recoats the worn surfaces and rebuilds the rubber lining cold on site, so the equipment gets fresh abrasion protection without coming out for re-lining. For belt damage, the crew rebuilds the torn area cold with a flexible elastomer that bonds to the existing rubber. That returns the line to service without a splice or a full belt replacement.

Drive and feed rollers fail in a quieter way. Glazed, worn, or torn covers lose grip, and the slip shows up as mistracking and dropped throughput. AAS resurfaces rollers cold with a high-grip elastomer that restores the friction profile, and the roller goes straight back into the drive without an OEM re-covering order.

Not every rubber repair is about wear. Irregular flange faces and older machinery often need gaskets, seals, and shims at thicknesses no catalog part will match. AAS casts those parts in place with a fluid elastomer, supported by Belzona 2131 and 2211 materials, that cures against the actual mating surface. There are no molds and no specialty tooling, and the finished seal fits the equipment instead of forcing the equipment to fit a stock part.

Plastic and rubber pipe presents its own problem. Cracks, splits, and worn sections leak product and resist conventional metal repair. AAS seals and rebuilds these lines cold with a flexible repair that bonds to the substrate, so the run holds service without cutting in a new section and re-jointing the line.

On the waterfront, impact and abrasion tear dock fenders, skirting, and molded rubber parts faster than a replacement can be sourced and shipped. A torn fender left in place keeps damaging the vessel and the structure, while a replacement order can run long. AAS rebuilds the torn component cold with a high-build elastomer, using Belzona 2211 and 2311 materials that bond to the existing part. The damaged fender returns to service without waiting on a new molded part to arrive.

Every one of these jobs avoids the same costs. There is no removal, no hot work, and no vulcanizing oven. The belt does not come off the structure, the roller does not ship out for re-covering, and the fender does not sit dead until a replacement lands. Cold-cure repair lets AAS rebuild the part where it sits and hand it back rebuilt, which extends asset life and keeps the next overhaul further out.

The result is shorter downtime and a unit back in production sooner. AAS backs the work with decades of field experience, a strong safety record, and 24-hour on-call service across Louisiana. A torn belt or a stripped lining gets a crew on it instead of a place in line for the next outage.