Customer ProfilePoskitts Carrots, one of the leading producers of carrots in the UK, producing 50,000 tonnes of carrots each year, as well as producing parsnips, potatoes and arable crops. ProblemThe company faces extensive wear on the legs of their subsoilers, also known as rippers in North America. In a normal season the legs would be…
TENMAT, a leading manufacturer of advanced materials and components with over 100 years of experience, has announced an exciting new partnership with MWA Coatings of Scandinavia. TENMAT is passionate about resolving safety, environmental, and performance problems, with innovative advanced material products which are the easiest to use, most reliable and highest performing in the marketplace.…
Engaged Services NQ who is Tenmat Ltd’s distributor for Ferobide in Queensland, Australia, has helped farmers to increase uptime and reduce wear by applying Ferobide to sugar cane harvesters. The work has been ongoing for a few seasons, starting small and growing based on good results, and has ended up with a new Case IH…
Giel-Don Bosco Agricultural College, Normandy, France Ferobide wear part reinforcing tiles combine tungsten and steel. This alloy allows the plates to be welded directly to the farm on the parts to be protected. Moreover, even if the material is hard, it can be cut to fit the parts to be protected. The Test Tenmats exclusive…
FEROBIDE is a weldable tungsten carbide composite material, which combines high levels of wear resistance with the ease and reliability of a weldable material. The unique features of FEROBIDE closes the gap between conventional tungsten carbide which requires brazing and weldable materials which have a significant lower wear performance. AGRICULTURAL APPLICATIONS Agricultural applications face many different…
Ferobide has been successfully used on tunnel boring machines (TBMs) to protect areas of the cutterhead in the Swedish Hallandsåsen tunnel project. It presents a long lasting and weldable option to conventional hardened steels and hardfacing rods, saving significant time on maintenance. Ferobide was the material on the forefront of Sweden’s most challenging railway project…
