Are You Modifying New Replacement Parts?
Visiting a papermill woodyard recently during their annual maintenance outage, the customer was planning to install their new chipper hood. Rather than the millwrights busy with the installation, they were standing and looking at the replacement hood still laying on the ground.
Annual Outages Have A Limited Time Frame To Install Replacement Parts
This is not the time to have meetings about why your new replacement parts don’t fit.
The customer was assured the new reverse engineered parts would fit as well as the original.
But now the hood doesn’t fit, and everyone is looking at everyone else, wondering what went wrong and what options they might have to make it work:
- What Can Be Done To Make It Fit?
- How Long Will It Take To Make Modifications?
- Who Pays For The Necessary Rework?
Here is their replacement chipper hood. The line markings show where the opening cut out should have been, compared to how it was delivered. Needed rework caused the installation to go off schedule.
Any delay to restarting the papermill results in lost revenue of $100,000 per HOUR. The chipper hood is a critical component that cannot be bypassed in their system.
It’s Better To Work With JADCO, To Avoid Last Second Surprises
People who are not in the paper industry cannot imagine the wear caused by wood fibers. The Grade 8 bolts used to retain the chipper hood, are heat treated for strength. You can see how the wood fibers have followed the threads and worn down the exposed bolt ends.
“This is an exceptional case of Abrasion.”
When fabricating components subject to extreme abrasion such as a chipper hood, we add Chromeweld 600 ™ liners in the major wear areas of the new component. This allows you to monitor wear, and replace worn liners, vs. buying a new hood.
As the leading manufacturer of Chrome Carbide Overlay (CCO) plate in the USA, you can depend on the results you get from JADCO.
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 CHROMEWELD™ 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 over 45 years, JADCO has focused exclusively on delivering consistent, longer 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, are your profits.
When your usual screw conveyor gives out, give JADCO a shout!
