Castolin Eutectic - Wear Protection Technologies for the Mining Industry

Castolin Eutectic has been a pioneer in wear protection technologies for more than a century. Specialising in welding, brazing, thermal spray and wear plates, Castolin Eutectic provides innovative, cost-effective solutions for prolonging the service-life of equipment in the mining industry.

The company's products and technologies have successfully been utilised by hundreds of clients to combat wear in the demanding mining sector. From the extreme cold of Canada to the heat of Chile and Australia, Castolin Eutectic has a deep knowledge of application solutions for the wear problems in this industry.

Having dealt with many problems involving boring tools, crushers, press rolls, sieves, impact liners, excavation teeth, shovel liners, scraps and conveyors, Castolin Eutectic has the knowledge to keep your mine site up and running.

Preventive maintenance welding program for mining equipment

Castolin Eutectic studies industry specific types of wear because until the full extent of the wear is understood, the correct solution cannot be identified. The nature of mining process means that wear on your resources is inevitable. Typical types of wear in this sector are:

• Impact
• Corrosion and heat
• Cavitation
• Erosion
• Friction
• Abrasion

Damage caused by these wear groups costs you money, especially in downtime and lost production, replacement parts, repair and ongoing maintenance. Castolin Eutectic can greatly increase your plant efficiency and profits.

A preventive maintenance welding program can extend the life of critical machine's parts by as much as 500%. Castolin Eutectic possesses the know-how to identify the most serious wear problems and show you how to avoid them.

Critical mining machinery repair

With more than 2,000 staff worldwide in over 100 countries, Castolin Eutectic has general-purpose facilities across the globe. All locations are fully equipped with state-of-the-art technology and a team of highly-skilled technical specialists.

Depending on your request, the job can be undertaken in our own facilities as well as at your plant. When your critical machinery is too large to be moved, our CastoLab® Services maintenance experts will visit your premises to solve the problem on-site.

Anti-wear products for the mining industry

Castolin Eutectic has invested in extensive research and development in many specific wear problems. Areas such as carbide selection, carbide size, carbide distributions, matrix compositions, application procedures and process equipment have all been closely examined by the company.

The results of this extensive work are demonstrated by the hundreds of patents registered by Castolin Eutectic in the areas of wear protection and fusion technologies during its 100-year history. Products the company has developed specially for the mining industry include:

• EnDOtec® wires for producing anti-wear coatings with excellent resistance to wear by metal-to-metal friction at high temperatures
• TeroMatec® wires developed for coating parts subjected to hot abrasion
• PTA equipment with the highest deposition rate torch, the IMPA 4500
• Nickel and iron-based powders for PTA process for high wear performance
• DO*390 N advanced iron-based alloys with sub micron scale grain structure with exceptional abrasion and erosion resistance
• High-quality wear plates and tubes: CDP® and Castotube®
• Superior arc spray wires technology with a complete range of wire and the best arc wire equipment available

Wearplate manufacture

Castolin Eutectic has become a leader in wear and fusion technologies by listening to its customers and providing new solutions.

Responding to the need to produce large wearfaced surfaces quicker than by manual welding, we manufactured our first 'WearPlate' with a robotised unit in the 90s and today we run more than 26 such units.

Castolin Eutectic now provides the widest range of wearplates on the market under the brand name CastoDur Diamond Plates® (CDP). Innovations have included the patented powder fused plate, the first XuperWave weld bead concept, PTA overlay plates with 60% tungsten carbide, the first impact resistant plates and first oriented crystal structure.

Global database of mining solutions

Castolin Eutectic pools its extensive industry knowledge worldwide through its international mining experts team, comprised of specialists in mining process applications. A key industry program allows experts to collaborate and formulate best practice methods.

Experience and knowledge is also shared through Castolin Eutectic's unique Terolink® database of more than 8,000 case studies from the company's long history. Case studies are included from specialists across the globe, ensuring there is sure to be something for you to draw upon. Studies include pictures, application description and cost-saving analyses.