Hardox™ Wearparts Centre Stirling expand their cutting capability

Based in Stirling, Scotland, the fifteen-strong team at the Hardox™ Wearparts Centre (Stirling) Ltd serve the whole of Scotland and parts of England with specialist wearpart services across the quarrying, mining, construction, forestry and recycling industries. Founded in 1998 and now wholly owned by SSAB, they have built up an impressive and varied client portfolio including names such as Terex Trucks, Aggregate Industries, Breedon, Leiths, Central Demolition, Liebherr and Hitachi.

We caught up with Harald Pedersen from SSAB who told us more “We use over 500 tonnes a year of Hardox™ material in the manufacturing process, including Hardox 450™, Hardox 500™ and Hardox 600™, as well as some Strenx ™ 700 for certain applications. We also work with 3mm thick Hardox™ and are currently carrying out development work in Hardox™ 2mm. We are an official UK Hardox™ wearparts centre as well as being ‘Hardox in my body™’ approved. We also have our own identification mark for products manufactured here which is the letter ‘g’, gráva™ which means dig in Swedish.”

“We have complete flame and plasma cutting technology available on-site allowing us to cut metal up to 130mm in thickness. Further investment is currently being made and will extend the plasma and oxyfuel cutting bed to an impressive 21m long and add another cutting head, allowing three 6m plates to be placed on the bed at the same time, increasing our efficiency and capability.”

An excellent knowledge and skill base has been built up over the years, enabling Hardox Wearparts Stirling to manufacture according to the critical standards required when working with high strength steels.  Stirling also prides itself on its service minded approach and quick turnarounds for the jobs required, essential for customers working in an often unpredictable industry sector of repair and maintenance.

Hardox™ Wearparts Centre Stirling provides a fully bespoke service to their clients, or on-site using their fully equipped Hardox™ vehicle fleet. A recent bespoke project was just about to be despatched to a major quarry in South Wales for Hitachi. With over 150 hours of welding involved this new 120 tonne bucket made from a large amount of Hardox weighed over 7.5 tonne and had been built to a specification for Hitachi, and was to be attached to a new EX-1200 excavator. This was a totally bespoke product, to a very tight deadline, and had also been finished in bright orange to match the Hitachi brand.

Hardox wearparts centres – the one stop shop for wear products and services
Hardox Wear Plate is world renowned for its strength and durability, even in the harshest, most aggressive operating environments. Today, customers can now 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 currently nine 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 - and this figure is expected to increase further over the coming years.

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 for the quarry and mining industry.

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.

For more information please visit http://centers.hardoxwearparts.com/stirling/
For more information on Hardox please visit www.hardoxwearparts.com

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