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Get 60% More Production Life With JADCO QT-PLUS ® Feeder Floor Liners
JADCO • Rich F.2025-03-03T10:29:55-05:00Crushing Midwest quartzite for railroad ballast is tough on equipment.With Winter shutdown, the challenge to increase production becomes difficult to accomplish. Railroad BallastAfter using ¾” AR400 for decades in the feeder to their jaw crusher, they always limped their crushing equipment along trying to make the end of the season....
Looking For Thin Chrome Carbide Overlay Plate?
JADCO • Rich F.2025-03-01T09:12:28-05:00When researching Chrome Carbide Overlay plates, something you seldom see available are thinner wear plate thickness.Unlike Most CCO Manufacturers, JADCO Makes All Of Our CHROMEWELD ™ Chrome Carbide Overlay Plates In House. This includes clad plates in light gauge thickness. We are able to make these thin plates by...
Hydrogen In Wear Resistant Steels
JADCO • Rich F.2025-02-25T11:41:53-05:00Hydrogen (H) is the lightest known element and is highly flammable when exposed with oxygen in the air. If you're old enough or a history buff, you may recall the most famous Hydrogen disaster. The German airship Hindenburg, on May 6, 1937, blew up while trying to land at...
Tungsten Carbide Plate Versus Tungsten Drop
JADCO • Rich F.2025-02-21T16:14:31-05:00Tungsten, the hardest metallic element known, has long been used for its exceptional wear resistance properties. While companies often incorporate Tungsten particles into welding wire matrices for wear protection, the effectiveness of these materials can be compromised when the matrix wears away, causing the carbide particles to fall out.At...
JADCO Delivers Straight Talk
JADCO • Rich F.2025-02-06T17:19:07-05:00This week’s blog post is an excerpt from a recent interview with JADCO President, Sam Anderson. In the discussion, Sam discusses JADCO’s industry leading Chrome Carbide Overlay (CCO) plate, CHROMEWELD ™ 600, and the differences found in competitor’s CCO products. “I often talk about base plate thickness in overlay plate....
Understand the Best Way To Mount Chrome Carbide Plate
JADCO • Rich F.2025-01-28T10:23:59-05:00Wear plates are usually retained with bolts or welded in place. When you have easy access to both sides of your wear plate liners, bolting them in place is simple. For some reason, the easy locations never seem to wear out.Unfortunately the opposite is also true. Murphy’s Law Of...
Zero Chatter Drag Chain Liners
JADCO • Rich F.2025-01-29T12:38:37-05:00Most OEM’s use 1” thick Ni-hard strips held down by countersunk bolts. This labor intensive process may take 3 to 4 days to install on your incline.CHROMEWELD ™ 600 plates install in one day. The competitor’s claim CW600 only has 1/4” of chrome carbide for wear protection. While their...
Are You Testing Wear Plate?
JADCO • Rich F.2025-01-13T10:06:02-05:00Last Sunday, the NASCAR season started with their biggest race of the year, the Daytona 500. This race is often referred to as NASCAR's Super Bowl, held on the first Sunday of the season. Every team diligently tests, searching for another 0.003 of a second faster around the 2.5...
WEAR STEEL FOR A GREENER FUTURE
JADCO • Rich F.2025-02-14T13:43:01-05:00Opting for JADCO's wear steel products for your applications and equipment not only enhances performance, but also minimizes our collective environmental footprint.How does JADCO wear resistant steel products reduce your environmental impact? Steel making is tremendously energy intensive.Sixty (60) TONS of greenhouse gases (GHG) are produced in making one...
Top 10 Wear Plate Posts From 2024
JADCO • Rich F.2025-01-02T11:41:53-05:00JADCO’s “Wear Plate Wednesday” Blog Posts cover more than our products. We feature a wide variety of industry specific wear applications, that frustrate most people. After each year, we review all posts and rank them based on your interest and present them to you, in case you missed any the...
JADCO Can Transform Your Business
JADCO • Rich F.2024-12-30T12:09:15-05:00Pop Quiz: How often have you dealt with salespeople who didn’t listen to what you said you needed, and just waited to talk about their products? My guess is far too often.The last thing you need are more people wasting your time and ignoring your needs. Amazing how people ignore...
Happy New Year from JADCO: Building a Stronger Future Together
Maddie Mawhinney2024-12-30T12:46:22-05:00As the clock strikes midnight and we welcome 2025, JADCO Manufacturing is reflecting on an incredible year of growth, innovation, and commitment to delivering the world’s most reliable wear steel products. From the mines of South Africa to paper mills in the Pacific Northwest & Canada, our mission has...

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RICH F.
“My hands on experience with wear resistant steel and welding solutions since 1993 will assist you to get longer equipment life and greater profitability.
As a guest welding instructor at Fox Valley Technical College in Appleton, Wisconsin; I deliver technical information and application expertise in everyday language; insuring the information is not only understood, but easily retained. You will not find 25-cent words in this Wear Plate Wednesday Blog, just straight forward information to deliver the best return on your efforts.”
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