Aerial view of Canadian Wear Technologies, Cobourg facility. / Vue aérienne des installations de Canadian Wear Technologies à Cobourg.
Abreco – material and designs that are engineered to outperform™
C
anadian Wear Technologies
white iron, and the Abreco Wear System
box was originally lined with one-inch-
partners with customers
adopts a proven consultative process to
thick AR500. These plates lasted an
to provide unparalleled
implement the world’s best abrasive wear
average of three months which translated
savings through productivity
packages.
to four work outages annually for liner
increases, equipment uptime, and
The Agnico Eagle – LaRonde mining
increased material reliability. The
complex has been a long-standing partner
and an improved design of one-inch
changes. The entire system was reviewed
company developed the Abreco Wear
with which the Abreco Wear System has
Abreco was installed. The results were
System® 15 years ago which was an
been deployed to show the materials’
that the required annual outages were
engineered approach to something
resilience in situations of adversity. In
dropped from four to one, providing a
previously never done – using white
2016, one of the applications considered
valuable increase to productive uptime
iron where previously not possible.
to be a trouble spot was the measuring
on the skips. The return on investment
Through engineering and design, the
box discharge chutes. In this application,
was calculated to be $0.64/tonne when
material has been pushed past what
430 tonnes of ore passed through the
compared to AR500. Further to the cost
was conventionally thought possible for
system on an hourly basis. The measuring
savings and productivity increases, the
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