Wear is one of the most challenging issues faced by heavy industry. In mining alone, 17% of the consumed energy is used to combat wear failure, which accounts for 2.7% of worldwide CO 2 emissions.

As the names suggest, Duroxite ® AP ELECTRODE and Duroxite ® AP WIRE have properties that make them suitable for all-position (AP) welding, including flat, horizontal, vertical and overhead welding.

The current industrial demand for complex, high-quality engineering structures often requires the use of enhanced materials for the manufacturing of each individual component. In many applications, ...

This is the first of a two-parter in which ESAB’s Mick Andrews takes Andrew Pearce through the finer points of hardfacing, piercing and gouging. Sounds painful… Hardfacing is something of a mystery.

At Cleveland Hard Facing, Greenleaf WG-300 ceramic inserts not only increase machining speeds and feeds for cutting tough welded overlays, they are the reason the shop can keep its machining work ...

Hardface Technologies, a Cleveland-based manufacturer of industrial hardface and wear-resistant products, has introduced Reactive Core Technology (RCT), an exclusive blend of “reactors” in the core of ...

The NanoSteel Company (www.nanosteelco.com), a producer of nano-structured steel alloys for industrial applications, has commercialized a line of alloys that use the company’s patented Super Hard ...

Vision protection and protection from heat and electricity, or the arc itself, are obvious precautions for welding. Less obvious is how to prevent exposure to the fumes and gases inherent with many ...

Company Announcement - Thermaspray, South Africa’s market leader in surface engineering and thermal spray coating technology, has optimised the parameters of its Plasma Transferred Arc process to ...

Worn shredder knives reportedly are the most frequent and costly cause of downtime in tire recycling. Increasing wear life by using the correct hardfacing on knives can mean substantial savings for ...

In the second part of our series on hardfacing, ESAB’s Mick Andrews walks Andrew Pearce through gouging. In part 1 we covered a lot of ground – rod selection, buffering layers, pre-heating and cooling ...