Plastics Industry Wear Solutions

Plastics production is high and tight: High-volume production and tight quality requirements. Wear affects many parts of the production process, and takes many forms. Erosion, corrosion, and abrasion can damage extruder barrels, liners, dies, pipes, elbows, valves, and chutes, and halt production.

Applied correctly, tungsten carbide is the first material choice for wear-resistant pelletizing dies, knives, high-pressure plungers, barrels, and screws. Kennametal’s specialized hot isostatic press (HIP) capabilities offer uniform material qualities to meet these tight requirements.

Our wear solutions are age-defying. They can extend component life up to 15 times longer compared to unprotected components.

Plungers

If you need complete reliability in your LDPE processing, then you need Kennametal hypercompressor plungers. Kennametal’s K94 carbide grade is the industry standard plunger material. During the plunger grinder process, you’ll achieve exacting size control.