When it comes to your company’s equipment and machinery, your goal is a complex one: to maximise wear life, performance and productivity of capital-intensive equipment while also minimising downtime and maintenance cost. How can you accomplish these aims within your plant or factory? By collaborating with laser cladding companies in NSW or SA to enhance the durability of core equipment or key parts therein.
Technology we license
Much of our surface engineering technology and processes have been developed in-house through our R&D facilities. These technologies are available for licensing in a range of markets.
Services we offer
Our capabilities incorporate a unique range of advanced surface-engineering technologies and processes designed to enhance the life and performance of machinery, equipment and production-vital components.
Products we make
We develop and manufacture an exclusive range of surface- engineered products, embedded with our patent technologies that will extend component wear-life by 3 – 7 times.
How Laser Cladding Works
When components of high demand machinery fail, the problem often has to do with surface wear on those components. These components fail as their surfaces are worn away due to heat, impact, corrosion, erosion or abrasion. The surface coatings on the parts are not strong enough to withstand countless repetitive motions or impacts forever. Eventually, the surfaces wear down. When that happens the parts fail, leading to breakdowns, downtime, parts replacements and costly repairs.
Working with laser cladding companies in SA or NSW can help businesses extend the lifespans of key components, thereby preserving the operability and efficiency of capital-intensive equipment. At LaserBond, we are one such company. Our LaserBond brand laser cladding uses a high powered, precisely controlled laser to bond surfacing materials to their substrates more effectively. This process creates what is called a metallurgical bond between the surface and the substrate, in place of the mechanical bonding which is more common for this process.
What do these terms mean, you may ask? Essentially, mechanical bonds are coatings laid over the top of substrate or base materials. In less strenuous conditions, this bond would be able to hold just fine. However, most plants or factories do have strenuous environments. Capital-intensive equipment is used for tasks that demand consistent, repetitive and hard wearing performance. Mechanical bonds are not intended to weather these tough conditions. As a result, in time, the coating starts to crack, chip, peel or otherwise wear off.
Working with laser cladding companies in Adelaide solves this problem. Metallurgical bonds achieve the bonding in a completely different way than standard mechanical bonds. Where mechanical bonds involve spraying a coating on top of a substrate, metallurgical bonds essentially take the coating and the substrate and make them one. The coating actually becomes part of the base material. Once this process has taken place, the coating is much less likely to wear off in any capacity—making it the ideal coating or surfacing method for equipment operating in hard wearing environments.
Explore Laser Cladding Companies in NSW or SA: Contact LaserBond Today
If you are shopping for laser cladding companies in Sydney, Adelaide or anywhere else in NSW or SA, LaserBond can help. Our laser cladding process provides extremely high-performance surfaces for your parts or equipment, thus limiting wear and tear, extending operating life, minimising downtime and positively affecting your bottom line. If you are interested in learning more about our business, how laser cladding works or what types of parts or machinery can be surfaced with laser cladding, contact us today.
