A newly upgraded wear plate promises extended service life and high productivity in the most challenging environments.

The Hardox 500 Tuf wear plate is part of SSAB’s Hardox range and is designed to deliver exceptional strength, hardness and toughness in a single wear plate.

The wear plate is particularly suited for use in tipper bodies, containers, mining tippers and trays, buckets of all kinds, agricultural equipment, liners and wear parts. The company asserts that its Hardox 500 Tuf combines the best properties from Hardox 450 and Hardox 500, resulting in an increased payload and service life for buckets, dippers and attachments. The wear plate’s extreme hardness and toughness is said to offer excellent welding and machining properties. Its wear resistant, tough characteristics help reduce costly repairs, rebuilds and parts replacement and give a longer service life with fewer add-on wear parts.

Handling blasted rock and ore in a mining tray is highly abrasive and requires a steel that can withstand heavy impact. The new wearplate has a typical hardness of 500 HBW for high wear resistance, and it combines high hardness with high toughness, giving a guaranteed narrow Brinell hardness range of 475-505 HBW.

The wear plate allows for the design of low-weight bodies with the wear-resistant qualities of much heavier structures and can be used as a structural wear plate in heavy-duty tipper and truck bodies. This offers new opportunities for reducing or eliminating supporting structures, allowing Hardox 500 Tuf to take the load instead. A tipper body without reinforcing beams is stronger and lighter and saves on welding costs. A lower tare weight of the body means more payload, less fuel per transported ton and fewer trips on the road.

Hardox in My Body logo on a product verifies that it has been manufactured using an original Hardox wear plate.