Improve Your Wear Plate ROI
JADCO • Rich F.2026-05-01T09:17:27-04:00Investors watch their Return On Investment to determine if they made or lost money. While it is easy to track short term gains or losses, having your investment continue producing over time, is how and when you truly multiply your earnings.
“The critical message with wear plate, is don’t confuse the initial sales price, with your cost per month or cost per ton performance.”
The Difference Between Spending vs. Investing
Spending always delivers short term results.
Investing means you expect a substantial return on your money over a longer period of time.
How are you going to invest your available labor and material budget to make the biggest improvement in your life?
REMEMBER:
- Price = What you pay.
- Value = The results you receive from your investment.
- Ordinary wear plates = ordinary results.
People initially buy lower priced steel, thinking cheaper is better. “Because all wear plate is the same, right?”
Nothing Could Be Further From The Truth
In real life you have to live with the results your investments deliver, good or bad. JADCO wear products deliver both longer life and greater value.
Wear resistant steel is sold by the pound. As a result, many purchasing people focus only on the price from one vendor to another. This method assumes all wear plate performs the same. Which is simply not the case, since there are No Industry Standards for wear resistant steels.
Crusher Wear Plate Failure Causes Expensive Downtime.
One of our customers recently bought a crusher. The salesman promised it would crush the local problematic field stone, with no problems. And promised the wear plates would last several seasons.
The Reality Was Quite Different…
Evidently the field stones were not informed they are supposed to be easy to crush, and put up a remarkable fight. The wear plates didn’t last a full season, causing them to miss their production targets. This meant they had to buy material to cover their production, instead of making their own stone. The price difference meant they fell short on revenue and profits, meaning less capital for new equipment.
When they saw they received Chinese steel, they contacted their local representative, they asked JADCO to quote QT-PLUS® replacement parts. “With QT-PLUS® we know the side plates will last multiple seasons.”
Attention to detail is a hallmark of JADCO products. You can be certain when your parts arrive, they are ready to install without having to spend time you can’t afford to make them fit.
Correct Fit And Longer Life, Is The Logical Choice For Your Equipment.
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.
We are able to deliver better results to our customers, because we think differently. How? By strictly focusing on improving your current results.
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.
