Hardox® Wearpart Centres - The largest Global network in the industry
SSAB have invested heavily in the UK market to provide 12 dedicated Hardox® Wearpart centres who now play a vital role in providing premium services and products to the quarrying, recycling and bulk material handling sectors.
The beginnings of Hardox® go back to the seventies to the Oxelösund plate mill in southern Sweden. The pioneers of quenched and tempered steels at SSAB soon realised that the only true way to develop the market for these new steels, was to have direct contact with the people who used them and this is still extremely important today. Hardox® Wear Plate is world renowned for its strength and durability, even in the harshest, most aggressive operating environments. Now, customers can benefit from a specialist service providing high quality replacement parts for a wide range of quarry and mining machinery and equipment, delivered through a network of regionally based Hardox® Wearparts Centres.
As a global initiative, there are Hardox® Wearparts Centres operating in more than 40 countries around the world. In the UK, there are now 12 strategically located Wearparts Centres, from Scotland in the north, Northern Ireland through to South Wales and South East England covering all the primary industrial centres. Each Hardox® Wearparts Centre has access to the complete product programme and full technical support provided by SSAB for its Hardox® brand, which translates to an extremely comprehensive offering of wear parts and services.
Services include:
- Site visits and technical advice – including technical analysis of requirements and measurements
- In-house design engineering – redesign of replacement components to provide longer operational life using in-house CAD/CAM and worldwide reference data base.
- Component manufacture – including collection of components and comprehensive in-house manufacturing services.
- Delivery and install – direct delivery and full installation and re-commissioning of replacement parts.
- On-site welding services – an extended service offering, with specialist welding vans creating the possibility to make on-site repairs.
- Ongoing support services – including service agreements, real life wear performance and analysis, plus wear monitoring analysis.
One of the benefits of using Hardox® Wearparts Centres is their access to literally thousands of wear products for buckets, tippers, crushers, dozers, shovels, chutes, feeders and pulverisers, plus many more. Accuracy and product quality are key drivers in the business and linked to this significant parts resource, enables replacement wear products to be manufactured, often to higher specification standards, to suit customers specific operating requirements. Hardox® Wearparts Centres will undertake the complete replacement or upgrade of a wear part, from initial discussion and site visit, specification recommendation, design and manufacture to installation.
With their strategic regional locations, Hardox® Wearparts Centres can often react faster to get replacement wear parts installed quicker than many traditional sources and this, coupled with their knowledge and support through SSAB has proved to be a winning combination for its industry customers.
The Hardox® Wear Resistant Steel Range
Hardox® abrasion-resistant or wear-resistant steels offer an impressive range of grades, thicknesses and widths, each with their own unique characteristics. Whichever ones you choose, you can be sure they'll improve the wear performance of your products and machinery, cut lead times in your workshop and increase the productivity of your operations.
Hardox® - Wear resistant steel is available in hardness ranging from 400 to 700 Brinell and SSAB have now launched 400 Brinell round bar and tubing up to 500 Brinell.
Strenx® - A range of high strength structural steel plates up to 1300MPA in yield strength, and it’s now also available in tube form.
Toolox® - engineering and tool steel is a pre-hardened Tool steel available in both plate and bar form, to suit your every need.
Duroxite® - An overlay wear plate available in plate and wire form, ideal for those problematic erosive wear environments.