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Extreme Wear Protection

Do You Need Extreme Wear Protection?

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...

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Maintenance Outage

Are You Planning A Maintenance Outage?

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...

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Troubleshooting Wire Feed Welding

Troubleshooting Wire Feed Welding

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...

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Hardface AR400

Should You Hardface AR400?

Did you know... • Most AR400, AR450 and AR500 available on the market do not have the same hardness throughout the thickness of the steel. • Most people are not aware AR400, AR450 and AR500 have No Industry Standards. Questions? Read a previous article on this topic. You Should Never Do This...

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Avoid Performance Excuses

Avoid Performance Excuses

Reaching the pinnacle of wear plate success in your operation, doesn’t take massive amounts of talent, creativity, or intellect. This may surprise you, but more often than not; success is earned by paying attention to the simple stuff. For example; the difference between successful sales professionals from the sales person of...

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Problems Are Continuous

Problems Are Continuous

While anyone connected to the internet has access to limitless information, it does have an unseen side effect.  How could this partnership ever deliver better results? Such an alliance squanders what little time is available to accomplish every other task they are assigned.This is frustrating to them because the unproductive lost...

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Penny Pinching

Are You Saving By Not Spending?

Famous Last Words:  “We are going to save money this season, by reducing our spending.” Everyone struggles from time to time working within a budget, it is a fact of life. Business can be particularly difficult when cash flow gets tight. Determining what you need to operate effectively,...

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When Do You Need To Replace Your Chrome Carbide Plate?

In abrasion applications, Chrome Carbide Overlay (CCO) Plate lasts many times longer than AR400 type heat treated alloy steel wear plates.  CCO was developed to combat abrasive wear from sliding abrasive materials.  While they do last many times longer than heat treated alloy steels, they do not last forever.If...

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Fire-Fighter

Are You Always Reacting Rather Than Strategically Planning?

EVERYDAY, JADCO HELPS CUSTOMERS WITHBOTH TACTICAL & STRATEGIC SOLUTIONS.If You Are An Engineering / Maintenance / Purchasing Professional,Why Does It Always Seem Like You Are "A Wear Plate Firefighter?" Most people are mired in taking care of their standard everyday disasters. They don’t take the time; or have the available...

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Get The Right Fit

Get The Right Fit

Woodworkers have a saying among that applies perfectly to wear resistant steel: “Measure Twice, Cut Once”. When you do not measure accurately, you waste time, money and material.  Worse yet – you still have to make the repairs. This means your labor & material budget is blown.Measuring flat...

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Seven T imes Longer Life

Seven Times Longer Life With CHROMEWELD ™ 600

The SME 2024 MineXchange Annual Conference and Expo is in Phoenix AZ February 25 – 28, 2024. JADCO will be in booth #2050 to help get your wear resistance equipment challenges under control. One of the greatest wear challenges in mining is the Haul Truck Body Tail. The high stress...

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LEARN ABOUT OUR PRODUCTS

'WEAR' WE ARE GOING

LEARN ABOUT JADCO'S FUTURE

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. We recently started selling Wall Ties, to fill a void in the concrete industry. Is there something your team is having trouble finding?
If so, talk with a JADCO professional.