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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Postle Industries Inc., Cleveland, has released a revised version of its Postalloy DuraHard Super-Edge noncracking hardfacing wire for shredding knives earlier this year. The hardfacing wire resists ...

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 ...