Plastics Industry Wear Solutions
Plastics production is high and tight: High-volume production and tight quality requirements. Wear affects many parts of the production process, and takes many forms. Erosion, corrosion, and abrasion can damage extruder barrels, liners, dies, pipes, elbows, valves, and chutes, and halt production.
Applied correctly, tungsten carbide is the first material choice for wear-resistant pelletizing dies, knives, high-pressure plungers, barrels, and screws.
Our wear solutions are age-defying. They can extend component life up to 15 times longer compared to unprotected components.
Conveyance Systems
Blowouts are a constant threat in conveyance systems. Piping and elbows are at particular risk. Kennametal’s cladding material can reduce and virtually eliminate blowouts in conveyance equipment and give you peace of mind.
Protected systems can reduce maintenance costs and downtime, and prevent cross contamination due to blowouts.
Due to the extreme abrasiveness of AMODEL polyphthalamide pellets, which are composed of up to 50% glass, Solvay Advanced Polymers, located in Augusta, GA, was experiencing daily piping blowouts, particularly in the elbows of their conveyance system. After experimenting with long-radius-bend, pocket-back-deflection, ceramic-lined, glass and glass-lined, and tungsten-carbide-coated elbows, Solvay turned to Kennametal Conforma Clad™, dramatically increasing the life of their elbows from 21 days to more than nine years and significantly decreasing annual labor, parts, and lost product costs.