Coal mining and processing plant equipment battle heavy wear on nearly every component handles coal. When JADCO Began In 1980, Our Initial Focus Was On The Coal Industry As the coal industry leader, JADCO’s CHROMEWELD ™ and QT-PLUS ® products, delivers a "Tag Team" approach to deliver longer life and less...
Celebrating Independence Day usually brings excitement to many families planning backyard barbecues before watching and lighting off fireworks.Unfortunately, every year emergency rooms treat many injuries including amputated fingers and hands from improper use of fireworks.Too many injuries result from burns with a combination of blast injuries.These safety guidelines will...
JADCO QT-PLUS ® makes the finest replacement bucket bottoms and wear liners. Loader buckets or excavator buckets, we do them all. We measure your bucket so the replacement fits regardless of the abuse it has suffered.We digitally scan the equipment and take a multitude of measurements to assure it...
Most equipment uses construction type steels, having greater strength to withstand the rugged conditions required to survive. When your equipment is stressed beyond what it was designed for, the equipment is abused. All steels have limits to their strength. This excavator bucket shows what happens when an operator continually uses the...
Both loader and excavator buckets are designed to scoop materials and deposit them elsewhere. The scooping action causes abrasive wear particularly on the sides of the buckets. There are several different methods commonly used to protect the bucket sides from wear. Among the most common is applying hardfacing in a checkerboard...
"There Is No Greater Waste of Time, Than Doing Something Which Will Make No Difference.”Installing the best or the worst performing wear plate, takes exactly the same amount of time. Often when you install the lowest price wear plate, it quickly becomes apparent you will be forced to replace...
During a recent meeting with a new mine manager, we discussed their JADCO success stories, comparing those results on their previous wear challenges.Our conversation touched on former companies where people were told “Not To Spend Any Money”; after their maintenance needs exceeded their annual budget.He said, “You Can Shut...
Wear resistant steel is required in equipment designed to process raw materials. Wear never ends. Make it your mission to control the wear, so you can replace worn out components on your schedule. Running Wear Plates Until They Fail, Is Your Most Expensive Method Of Operations Regardless of industry, the heaviest wear areas...
Where most people only see obstacles, JADCO representatives see a ton of opportunities that are available to anyone who takes the time to look for the real causes of your issues. A competitor viewed a recent paper industry wear plate installation in person, where JADCO suggested a different approach to...
A long-time steel mill customer was pleased when he was only able to gets a few months from AR450 previously; and CHROMEWELD™ 600 Chrome Carbide Overlay plate delivered 2 years of wear life. It immediately set the new standard for wear resistant performance success.Several years later, a new maintenance...
The focus of a Reliability Manager looking to replace wear resistant steel is to search for the longest lasting, most cost-effective solution for their unique application. Partnering with JADCO, up front, assures you will receive the correct replacement parts within your budget, and have them arrive in your time frame. Here...
In the nearly 44 years JADCO Mfg. Inc has been assisting heavy industry, most of the frustration with installing wear plate involves welding issues. We are pleased to announce another JADCO Resource available on our website, the JADCO XPLAINER, created to deliver better results for your wear applications... making it even...
OUR “WEAR PLATE WEDNESDAY” AUTHOR
“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.”
We are always talking with our customers about the wear and impact challenges they face in doing business.
Each industry has unique challenges to overcome when it comes to moving and manipulating products. While our experienced sales and fabrication teams have seen alot, they have not seen it all. Now, with supply chain issues, there are even more challenges to overcome, keeping machines running optimally , and in some cases, running at all. Is there something your team is having trouble finding?
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