ACCESS Newswire
26 Feb 2020, 02:25 GMT+10
WESTBURY, NY / ACCESSWIRE / February 25, 2020 / Oerlikon Metco (SWX:OERL) continues to develop materials to combat abrasion problems for ground engaging tools and mining components.
Typical of most mines are the challenges of abrasion, impact and corrosion affecting plant maintenance and costly downtime. Mining operations must take a continuous proactive approach to reduce maintenance in order to remain sustainable. New materials developed by Oerlikon Metco using Metco's Scoperta™ Computational Rapid Alloy Design Process, such as, Metco 8224, have comparable abrasion resistance to tungsten carbide with the impact strength of manganese steel.
'These new material technologies provide significant improvement in component operational performance and are the future of maintaining plant sustainability,' states, Adolfo Castells, Applications Segment Manager, Mining. For example, Metco 8247 is an iron-based composite wire developed by Oerlikon Metco for use as a non-cracking hardfacing material applied to bucket teeth. We discovered that components hardfaced with Metco 8247 showed an increased component life of 200% to 400%. Teeth lasted approximately 1.5 to 2-times longer, than unhardfaced teeth, leading to less frequent change-outs of components, reducing machine downtime and lowering labor costs. The use of a wear-resistant, non-cracking hardface materials, such as Metco 8247, can eliminate GET failure while maintaining the designed geometry of the GET.
How do you choose the right wear protection for your ground engaging tools?
Join Adolfo Castells, Applications manager, for his webinar, New Solutions for GETs.
Wednesday, February 26, 2020 - 1:00 - 2:00 pm (EST)
For further information, please contact:
Liana Vinokur
Director, Commercial Excellence
T +1 516-338-2213
[email protected]
www.oerlikon.com/metco
About Oerlikon Metco
Oerlikon Metco enhances surfaces that bring benefits to customers through a uniquely broad range of surface technologies, equipment, materials, services, specialized machining services, and components. Surface technologies such as Thermal Spray and Laser Cladding improve the performance, efficiency and reliability of customer parts and systems. Oerlikon Metco serves industries such as aviation, power generation, automotive, oil & gas and other specialized markets via a dynamically growing network of more than 40 sites in EMEA, Americas, and Asia Pacific. Oerlikon Metco, together with Oerlikon Balzers, and Oerlikon AM belong to the Surface Solutions Segment of the Switzerland-based Oerlikon Group (SIX: OERL).
SOURCE: Oerlikon Metco Inc
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