CERAMIC vs. CHROMEWELD For Abrasion Resistance
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 flooring, a ceramic tile with an appropriate PEI rating is sufficient. For heavy-duty industrial applications like chutes and hoppers, CCO is the superior choice.
Comparison Of Ceramics Vs. Chrome Carbide Overlay For Abrasion Resistance
Ceramic Tile
Industrial ceramics are made from alumina ceramic. Alumina ceramic is excellent for high heat applications such as TIG welding cups.
Every TIG welder knows the Alumina Ceramic TIG torch nozzle will handle intense heat without problems. They also know when it rolls off the welding table and lands on the floor, you grab a broom to pick up the pieces. Nearly all ceramics are not designed for impact.
Ceramic manufacturers like to point out this material is next to diamond in hardness, and 12 times more wear-resistant than carbon steel, and exhibits excellent corrosion resistance.
Chrome Carbide Overlay – CCO
CCO is a specialized, heavy-duty industrial material that uses a hard chrome carbide layer, covering a steel base for extreme abrasion resistant applications.
Frequently used for lining chutes, hoppers, pipes, and other material handling systems, offering significantly more wear-resistance than standard ceramic tile.
While ceramic manufacturers pride themselves on 12 times longer life than carbon steel, they have quite a way to go to outperform CHROMEWELD 600 ™ in challenging industrial abrasion applications.
Anyone who has ever dropped something hard onto a ceramic tile floor, knows nearly any sharp impact will chip, crack or break the tile.
Ceramic tile is less dependable when impact is involved in moving abrasive materials in an industrial environment.
Here are the remains of a ceramic tile lined cyclone, which used the ‘weld on’ tiles as shown by the center hole.
This cyclone was used to separate the ‘fluff’, or non-metallic pieces from a car shredder. This includes insulation, cloth, rubber, plastic and other components.
Often, these materials will retain some ‘tramp metal’, or smaller pieces that remain in the airstream, and not sorted by the cyclone. The heavy items fall to the open bottom of the cyclone, while the lighter materials follow the airstream and go up through the center of the cyclone.
The mass shown hanging from a hole worn through the steel is a collection of the fluff.
With the speed of the air moving through the cyclone, impact from any metal parts will break the tiles. This leaves your base metal uncovered and unprotected, and it doesn’t take long for abrasion to wear through the base metal, causing more headaches.
Individual ceramic tiles are frequently glued in place. When a tile gets broken, the abrasives gouge under the tile causing them to loosen. This accelerates the failure rate.
It is faster to install CCO plates by welding them in place to protect your equipment. You can cover more area in a shorter time frame with Chrome Carbide Overlay.
CCO is your best choice if your industrial wear application involves highly abrasive materials, such as moving coal, rocks or sand. Or any other material where impact would damage even the hardest ceramic tile.
How many salespeople don’t deliver on their promises?
You graduated with an engineering degree; and likely learned more in the first 60 days in industry than in your 4+ years of college.
The real world shows you what looked good on paper, may not cut it in real world applications.
Forming CCO allows you to create subassemblies to protect your equipment against both extreme abrasion and moderate impact.
As the leading manufacturer of Chrome Carbide Overlay (CCO) plate in the USA, you can depend on the results you get from JADCO.
If your application encounters significant impact along with abrasion, you will do well with CHROMEWELD ™ Ti.
If your application is strictly abrasion without impact, our industry leading CHROMEWELD ™ 600 is an excellent material choice.
Our entire CHROMEWELD family of CCO products are made at our headquarters in Harmony, PA, located 30 minutes North of Pittsburgh.
JADCO has created our own clad machines to make certain we deliver the longest lasting materials to our customers. This gives us control over every aspect of making our industry leading CHROMEWLD overlay plate.
Never consider the CHROMEWELD™ family of products as a “One Size Fits All” wear plate. Our customers look to us for continuous wear resistant improvement. They rely upon JADCO to create new products to address their specific wear challenges.
This improves your wear plate performance results further; it’s like having your own Research and Development for state-of-the-art wear resistant products. Each one has already been proven in real world applications, before you ever install them in your equipment.
For the last 45 years JADCO has focused exclusively on delivering consistent, longer equipment life for our customers.
We are able to deliver better results to our customers, because we think differently. How? By strictly focusing on improving your current results.
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We will schedule a meeting with one of our local wear plate specialists at a time that best fits your schedule.
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