Reducing Wear and Increasing Service Life: Implementing CastoChrome® Rockbox Liners for Feed Chutes

Impact and abrasion resistant wear castings

The Challenge
The customer had been using 3-inch-thick liners welded onto AR plates to protect their transfer chute (fixed plant) from wear at the impact zone. However, repairs were expensive and frequent, and the part quickly became severely damaged.

The Solution
The Castolin Eutectic wear management team, working in close collaboration with the customer, analyzed the wear mechanisms involved and the trajectory of the material affecting the part. With this information, Eutectic Services and the Technical team designed a custom rock box chute liner to create a deadbed for ore-on-ore wear, using CastoChrome casting. The selected material, CastoChrome, will provide exceptionally impact and abrasion-resistant wear liners with a safe and quick installation procedure.

The Outcome
The CastoChrome rockbox was successfully installed and has since helped to increase the part performance and service life drastically, from 4 weeks to the scheduled maintenance cycle.

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