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Hard Stuff

The Hard Stuff

JADCO • Rich F.2025-04-29T19:45:31-04:00

“No One Messes Up The Hard Stuff.”

This quote came from an experienced fabricator and CWI, who recently joined a long time JADCO customer. The more we talked about it, the more accurate this statement appears.

When you confront your most challenging wear applications, you invest adequate planning up front before the project starts:

With proper oversight during the shutdown, your project goes smoothly, to minimize surprises.

As opposed to the ‘Easy Stuff’

What is usually considered ‘Easy Stuff’, is to continue changing out worn items with the same materials. Often when items are changed frequently, they are handed off to a rookie with little to no instruction on how to do it or what they should look for to avoid potential landmines. This almost guarantees at best, you will get the same results with no improvement in performance. More often a shoddy installation likely to cause future issues, because they don’t know what to avoid. Do you look at how much of your time is spent working on tasks you don’t like doing? And then immediately think, “Well, how could I do that better?”

What you should be asking yourself is,

“Who do I know that could help me do this better?”

Maybe that someone is JADCO!

Famous Gents
Even the smartest men ask others for advice. Early in the 1900’s Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, President Harding and Harvey Firestone would gather to work on topics to improve the U.S. and each other’s business.

That’s how you take giant leaps in progress.

JADCO is coming up on 45 years of helping our customers get more success in their wear applications than ever before. And our customers continue to use JADCO products because they have proven to themselves how much longer QT-PLUS ® lasts.

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.

QT Plus Value

Check out our QT-PLUS…you’ll be glad you did.

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

 

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

We pride ourselves to deliver “Walk Away Results” to you. This means after you install JADCO wear resistant steel products, we are both able to walk away knowing you will not lose sleep wondering if these wear products will fail in your equipment at the worst possible time. Not with JADCO.

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 clad plate gives out, give JADCO a shout!

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"With over 30 years of experience in wear-resistant steel and welding solutions, I’m dedicated to helping you make sound decisions, achieve longer equipment life, and improved profitability in your business."


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