Our original Founder, James A. Davison started JADCO Mfg. Inc. in 1980, to solve your wear problems and make your day better. Every day since, we deliver value to you in everything product we manufacture.

This photo clearly shows how most AR 400, AR 450, AR 500, etc. steels are only hard on the surface. When their surface has worn through 0.020” or so, abrasion quickly attacks the softer steel inside. Frequently the middle of many wear plates are no harder than mild steel.

Unilike the AR family of products described above… JADCO’s QT-PLUS ^® guarantees the same hardness all the way through the steel. This gives you 3 to 5 times longer life than commodity AR 400.

Here Is Your Proof – The ASTM 255 Jominy Test

ASTM International, formerly known as American Society for Testing and Materials, is a standards organization that develops and publishes voluntary consensus technical international standards for a wide range of materials.

ASTM 255, tests the hardenability of a specific steel, or how effective it is to become hardened. 

The test bar is heated red hot to 1650° F, and retained over a water supply. This slow cools the steel, verifying how heat treating performs on various types of quench and tempered steel.
You can see the red color fading as the steel cools from the water contact below the rod.

After machining a flat surface on the steel sample, the hardness is measured 36 times in 1/16” spacing. This shows if the chemistry of the wear resistant steel actually has the ability to become hardened though the thickness of the steel plates. They are heat treated one at a time.

The following chart shows an independent testing lab’s ASTM 255 results comparing a highly regarded competitor to JADCO QT-PLUS ^®.

As you can see, QT-PLUS ^® has the same hardness 2” up from the contact end. While the much advertised competitor’s top model LOST ONE THIRD of the hardness in one-half inch. At 1.5” from the end, the hardness was no different than mild steel.

Are You Getting The Wear Protection That You Paid For?
Absolutely Not.

Don’t Waste Your Maintenance Budget On Low Cost Wear Plate. Install QT-PLUS To Finally Take Control Of Your Wear Challenges.

JADCO’s QT-PLUS ^® delivers greater performance IN YOUR MOST CHALLENGING WEAR APPLICATIONS than the various AR400 steel plates you have used previously.

Being able to create wear resistant steel having the same hardness through the entire thickness of the steel, demands you accurately control the alloying chemistry with precise heat treating. Doesn’t Every Steel Company Make Their Wear Plate Last As Long As JADCO QT-PLUS ^®?

The quick answer is No; although the attention to alloy content required at the steel mill is available to anyone. Yet most wear plate distributors choose to reduce the proper quantities and percentages of these essential alloying elements, to get a lower selling price.

When you cut back on these critical alloys, wear life drops, and it is always the customer who suffers.

For the last 45 years JADCO has focused exclusively on delivering consistent, longer equipment life for our customers.

Now you understand why we deliver better results to our customers. By strictly focusing on improving your current results, we look at the wear process differently. This is why we deliver better performance results, and lower cost of ownership for our customers.

Allow us to help you today by emailing us at info@jadcomfg.com or calling (724) 452-5252.

We will schedule a meeting with one of our local wear plate specialists at a time that best fits your schedule.

Remember, the only thing you have to lose by not working with JADCO is profit.