CLADIATOR BLOG

Working Steel Rolls are ubiquitous in the manufacturing process and in many cases the low hanging fruit for reducing production costs associated with line downtime.

Thank you to Reade Advance Materials for their kind article about our team here at ACT, what we do, and our experience working together.

We were recently featured in an article by "Additive Manufacturing" depicting our use of powder bed fusion (PBF) metal 3D printing to expand our portfolio of manufacturing services.

Harsh environments are a fact of life in the power generation industry. Equipment is subjected to all kinds of abuse, from high temperatures and high pressure to fuel that is highly corrosive and erosive.

American Cladding Technologies (ACT) has made significant advances in hardfacing internal diameters with the help of their TRUMPF TruPrint3000 3D metal printer. Until now, ACT has had to rely on the nozzle designs of the OEM’s.

We hear this one quite often: “I’m interested in laser cladding, but it’s too expensive compared to other processes.” Not true – laser cladding can be very cost competitive. Let me explain why.

Corrosion is a massive problem across all industries. NACE (National Association of Corrosion Engineers) estimates the global cost of corrosion at $2.5 trillion a year.