Reliability engineers and maintenance planners do not need to become wear plate experts overnight. JADCO provides practical wear resistant steel resources, proven application experience, and technical support to help identify root causes, evaluate material options, reduce downtime, and improve equipment performance.
Proper preheating is critical when welding wear resistant steel, especially in cold conditions. Learn how preheat temperature, alloy content, steel thickness, and interpass temperature affect weld quality, and how to prevent cracking without overheating and damaging the hardness of quenched and tempered wear plate.
Extend excavator bucket life with three proven wear upgrades: wider replacement bottoms, longer-lasting wear bars, and properly formed inner liners. JADCO QT-PLUS® wear resistant steel helps reduce premature wear, avoid unnecessary repairs, and keep aggregate and mining equipment working longer.
Choosing the right wear plate thickness depends on your application, equipment limitations, and expected service life. JADCO QT-PLUS® through-hardened wear resistant steel maintains consistent hardness throughout the plate, helping thicker material deliver predictable wear life and greater long-term value.
Traditional hardfacing can be labor-intensive and difficult to repair in the field. JADCO CHROMEWELD™ 600 Chrome Carbide Overlay wear plate provides broader abrasion protection, faster installation, easier replacement, and longer wear life for excavating, aggregate, and earthmoving equipment.
2025 was a year of meaningful progress at JADCO.From major equipment investments to continued refinement of our CHROMEWELD family of products, every advancement shared one goal: delivering longer-lasting, higher-performing wear solutions for our customers.Below are some of the most impactful articles from 2025, each highlighting how JADCO continues to...
"Let’s be honest... Very few people are thinking about wear resistant steel on New Year’s Eve. " But if you are, you are in good company...you're dedicated to getting a job done right. Any time of day or night, you can find answers to your toughest wear challenges at JADCOmfg.com, more than on...
“We’re sending you the warmest Christmas wishes to you and your family, from everyone at JADCO, in Harmony, PA. "May your Christmas days be snowy and bright; and may all your Christmas' be white."Thank you for the opportunity to assist in making your business successful.In 2025 we celebrated being in...
Is Your Snow Removal Equipment Ready? The colder the temperatures, the greater you need to monitor your wear resistant steel on your snow removal equipment. Colder temperatures lower the impact resistance of any steel. The December 2025 Polar Vortex has arrived with a vengeance, bringing record cold and snow across...
One of the greatest challenges for equipment with wear resistant steel; is determining when to replace it, before you have a breakdown. In the past, you had two options to determine the remaining thickness in your wear steel. 1st Choice:Hire an outside contractor to perform the testing, trusting they had...
As you may already know, Ceramic tile and Chrome Carbide Overlay (CCO) have different abrasion resistance profiles.CCO such as JADCO CHROMEWELD ™ 600 is a bimetallic wear plate designed for extremely high-wear industrial applications. It is designed to be more abrasion resistant than ceramic tiles.For most home and commercial...
When you install wear plate that lasts longer than your current wear resistant steel, it doesn’t take any extra time. That is working smarter; not harder. When your underperforming wear plate fails, everything stops to change it out. That takes up all of your spare time you had in...
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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