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Bi metallic piping replaces CCO 28″wye and lateral piping assemblies
Published on Friday, March 2nd, 2012 and filed under New Products.
A major Oil Sands facility replaced CCO (chromium carbide overlay) 28″wye and lateral piping assemblies with bi metallic piping from Penticton Foundry. The mine found that the CCO wyes and laterals that transported bitumen in their hydrotransport piping was a very high wear component. Outages and maintenance downtime were a major cost concern. We proposed [...]
7000 pound solid chrome iron elbow replaces CCO (chromium carbide overlayed) elbow
Published on Thursday, March 1st, 2012 and filed under New Products.
Penticton Foundry recently shipped a 60 degree solid chrome elbow to a mine in the Alberta Oil Sands. The elbow was specifically made to increase production from the customer’s cyclone launders. The elbow was designed to have double the wall thickness on the outside radius where the majority of wear takes place. This customer expects [...]
Cast Hydraulic Fracking (Fracturing) Components cost less, last up to 6 times longer
Published on Friday, January 7th, 2011 and filed under New Developments.
Penticton Foundry supplies ASTM A532 chrome iron frac’ing components that outlast fabricated components
Cr Iron Pump Box Spool Liner Inserts Solve Hydro Transport Wear Problem
Published on Friday, October 16th, 2009 and filed under Customer Success Stories, New Developments.
An oil sands customer had a problem with extreme high wear on pump spools in the hydrotransport line for oil sands. We worked with the customer to design a reusable spool that houses a 1 ¼” thick wall 27% chrome iron liner >650 Brinnell. Not only will the chrome iron liner wear longer than the [...]
Cyclofeeder Wear Liner
Published on Friday, October 16th, 2009 and filed under Customer Success Stories, New Products.
An oil sand customer from Ft McMurray had a Cyclofeeder liner that required new wear liners. They wanted a turnkey operation, they wanted the vessel completely lined and ready to install in their hydrotransport line for pumping oil sands. The vessels were 16’ in diameter and had to be lined with over 80,000 pounds of [...]
Frac Pump Sand Slinger
Published on Friday, October 16th, 2009 and filed under Customer Success Stories, New Developments.
One of our oil service companies used our Pliant 25 alloy to improve the wear life of their sand slingers. The slingers are a critical high wear component in hydraulic fracturing pumps. They’re used to mix sand in the frac pumps. The slingers are over 600 Brinnell hardness and balanced to a G1 spec. Routing [...]
CADI feed chute liners
Published on Monday, August 3rd, 2009 and filed under New Developments, New Products.
CADI feed chute liners on a usage trial at a large Canadian copper mine. The purpose of the trial is to determine the castings ability to wear and absorb impact. Routing Number SUNTRUST BANK The trials are ongoing but at this point the CADI has performed beyond our expectations.
Austempered Ductile Iron (ADI) gear segments
Published on Monday, August 3rd, 2009 and filed under New Developments, New Products.
Austempered Ductile Iron (ADI) gear segments used in the mining industry. These gear segments are used in rail dumping assemblies that empty entire rail cars of ore. The alloy use for the gears has a tensile strength of 150,000 PSI a yield strength of 100,000 PSI with 7% elongation. The gears are 100% X ray [...]
Balanced Machined Impellers
Published on Monday, August 3rd, 2009 and filed under New Developments, New Products.
Balanced Machined Impellers at >600BHN in ASTM A532 CLIII Type A. Routing Number SUNTRUST BANK A large OEM pump customer was closing their manufacturing facility. They chose Penticton Foundry to provide turn-key products. These 28% chrome white iron impellers are machined, heat treated, painted and balanced. (ASTM A532 CL3A)
Trunnion Liner
Published on Monday, August 3rd, 2009 and filed under New Developments, New Products.
a 5800 pound ASTM A532 CLIII Type A >650BHN fully machined casting made for a mine here in British Columbia. This mining customer had a shutdown situation and Penticton Foundry provided the replacement trunnion liner in record time. No other foundry in western Canada or the U.S. was able to quote the part except Penticton [...]