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We Know What Works

JADCO celebrated our 46th anniversary in 2026. With documented improved wear life for our customers in a wide variety of industries, we know what material will work best in your equipment.

Knowing What Works Beats Guessing What Might Work.

It also prevents a double hit to your capital or maintenance budget.

At JADCO, we will not sell you any wear products unless we are CONFIDENT THEY WILL IMPROVE YOUR WEAR LIFE RESULTS.

Mining dipper bucket lined with CHROMEWELD 600 overlay plate and QT-PLUS wear plates
This mining dipper bucket uses both CHROMEWELD™ 600 and QT-PLUS® wear plates.

Why Install Two Different Wear Plates In Your Dipper Wear Package?

Our experience has proven that specific areas of the dipper encounter more abrasive wear than others, while other areas battle more impact.

Other vendors may advise a one-type-fits-all wear plate. We deliver longer life because WE KNOW WHAT ACTUALLY WORKS in specific areas of your equipment.

CHROMEWELD 600 wear life comparison chart versus mild steel and AR500
Here you can see the Extreme Abrasion Applications results comparing mild steel, AR500 and CHROMEWELD™ 600. It is easy to see how investing in better quality products will easily pay for itself in greater equipment uptime and longer wear life.

Which Wear Application Would You Like To Finally Control?

As North America’s leading manufacturer of premium Chrome Carbide Overlay (CCO) plate, you can depend on the results you get from JADCO.

Our entire CHROMEWELD™ family of CCO products is made at our headquarters in Harmony, PA, located 30 minutes north of Pittsburgh.

JADCO created our own clad machines to make CERTAIN WE DELIVER THE LONGEST LASTING MATERIALS to our customers.

This gives us complete control over every aspect of making our industry leading CHROMEWELD™ overlay plate.

Never Consider The CHROMEWELD™ Family Of Products A “One Size Fits All” Wear Plate.

Our customers look to us for continuous wear resistant improvement. They rely on JADCO to create unique products to address their specific wear challenges.

This further improves your wear plate performance results. It’s like having your own research and development for state-of-the-art wear resistant products, without the investment.

Each CHROMEWELD™ product has been proven in real world applications for years before you ever install it in your equipment.

For the last 46+ years, JADCO has focused exclusively on delivering consistent, longer equipment life for 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.

JADCO MFG., INC.

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