Mackay is at the heart of Queensland’s mining industry, where resource extraction continues to boom, acting as a service hub for the surrounding Bowen and Galilee Basins. Every year, the Mackay Showgrounds come alive for the Queensland Mining Expo (QME), during which suppliers and visitors from around the country have an opportunity to interact face-to-face.
Michael Greelish, national accounts manager for mining at Motion Australia, said that being able to connect with customers, old and new, at the 2022 QME offered the chance to provide some immediate and effective solutions.
He cited one local business who approached the Motion Australia team with an issue that had been costing them significantly in downtime and bearing replacement costs.
“A lot of the time in mining, bearings are located in hard-to-reach places, where they often get very wet and dirty,” he said.
“This was making it difficult for their technicians to go in and manually lubricate with the frequency required to upkeep each part’s performance. They asked if we could recommend a resolve, and we suggested the self-lubricating NSK Molded-Oil as a better fit.”
According to Greelish, the Motion Australia team was able to make the order then and there, streamlining the supply process. As expected, the product’s maintenance-free characteristics have led to an elimination of premature failures and increased uptime on the application.
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