Wear Resistance

The challenge of wear in dredging

There are few industrial activities today that involve such exposure to erosion and consequent component wear as dredging. Dredging equipment does its work in one of the most unforgiving environments in the world. The material to be dredged is almost always erosional, sometimes extremely so.

The threat of wear does not so much lie in the direct cost of an item to be replaced, but in the costs associated with consequential installation downtime. IHC Parts & Services has decades of experience in addressing this threat of wear with a range wear resistant materials for every kind of dredging application.

From suction to discharge, IHC Parts & Services’ wear parts are specially designed to withstand the forces of erosion and corrosion.

Type of materials
• Wearmet® – a group of cast steels
• MaXidur® – a group of high chromium white cast irons
• Max-Plate – a group of sheet metals made from construction steel with a special wear-resistant layer.

Application
The following items of IHC Parts & Services equipment are best suited to the application of wear-resistant materials:

		Wearmet			Maxidur	Max-Plate
		Wearmet S1	Wearmet S2	Wearmet S3	MaXidur 5	MaXense	MaXtop
Lines	Straight Lines				•	•	•
	Bends of branches	•	•		•	•	•
	Suction mouth		•	•	•	•	•
Pumps	Impeller	•		•	•
	Wear plates	•		•	•	•	•
	Shoulder ring	•			•
	Suction mouth				•	•	•
	Impeller wearing ring				•
	Screw brush				•
	Discharge liner				•
	Suction cover liner				•
Draghead	Wear plates					•	•
	Wear blocks				•