Wear Resistant Parts: Abrasive Steel For Industrial Applications

By Melissa Brown


Wear related problems have almost gone the way of the eight track tape as a relic of the past, thanks to new steel technology. Corrosion resilient steel, impact resistant steel and wear resistant steel have helped to virtually eliminate the industrial wear application issue. Steel wear resistant parts are now used the world over.

What makes tough steel so amenable to all these various applications is its unique combination of physical properties. They include but are not limited to high strength, superior high fracture toughness, excellent hardness, shock resistance and corrosion resistance. It also holds up extremely well to high temperatures. Industrial applications, in particular, take full advantage of all these excellent tough characteristics.

Long-Lasting to Ensure Zero Downtime - Even during your peak production season, it helps reduce lost production time due to worn parts that might otherwise hamper your throughput. They also stand up to repetitive actions like rubbing, scraping, and erosion that tend to wear away material from the surface over time.

Fit and Perform to the Highest Expectations - It virtually takes the time and money you would spend on maintaining and servicing different parts out of the equation. It can be used to design standardized parts that improve abrasion, reduce your inventory and save you money.

Abrasive steel offers the following benefits to industrial applications. It improves product lifetimes. It affords manufacturing efficiency. It enhances performance. It reduces downtime.

Some of the properties of ceramics that make them stand out from rest of the materials include its non-porous surface that does not let any impurities enter or dent the material couture. Ceramics demonstrate high electrical stability. They are bad conductors of electricity thereby aiding in using them for critical applications. The wear resistant ceramics are highly elastic.

Where else might I find it? In addition to the previously mentioned industrial applications, it is found almost everywhere you look in everyday life. For instance, the "Lake Tahoe News" recently discussed Yaktrax, a smart shoe slip-on that prevents slips and falls when walking on winter ice. And you guessed it-it's the coils, which just happens to be made of abrasion resilient steel, which are wrapped around the Yaktrax's rubber surface that enables safe traversing of icy surfaces.

To find such a specialized steel manufacturer, business owners for whom industrial applications are a normal part of operations should ask around. A manufacturer that is willing to work side by side with its customers shows it is in the game for all the right reasons. The one they ultimately chose to partner with should, above all else, be focused on the customer's bottom line, work with the client to reduce time and money spent maintaining and servicing different parts, understand the client's problems and be prepared to solve them proactively




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