Overview
Induscoat supplies wear parts and foundry castings, along with coating and repair products, to plants, mines and quarries in Quebec and Ontario. The grade or product is chosen for the actual wear, the matching documentation ships with it, and we either install it ourselves or support your maintenance crew on site.
Induscoat supplies the consumable side of heavy equipment: crusher and mill wear parts, cast liners, filled epoxies, abrasion and corrosion linings, epoxy grouts. The starting point is the worn part and the way it failed, not a catalogue reference. Each delivery can be traced to its heat or batch, and installation is prepared around the shutdown: we fit the parts and apply the products, or we work alongside your maintenance crew. Complete process equipment and custom machined parts fall outside this service.
What the service covers
The service brings together three things that are often bought separately: the part or product, the technical choice behind it, and the installation.
- Wear parts and foundry castings: mantles and concaves, jaw plates, blow bars, hammers, mill liners, chute and hopper liners, cast to your drawing or the original part number (foundry castings and wear parts).
- Coating and repair products: metal- or ceramic-filled epoxies to rebuild worn surfaces, corrosion protection coatings, abrasion-resistant linings, epoxy grouts (coating products).
- Installation: wear part change-outs during the shutdown, product application by our crews, or support for your own crew so they apply the products correctly.
What the service does not cover: complete process equipment and its commissioning, which belong to the manufacturer or integrator. Custom machined or welded parts go through custom parts fabrication.
Choosing the grade for the wear mechanism
A wear part that cracks and one that wears out too fast often share a cause: a grade chosen for the wrong mechanism. We look at the worn part first, not the catalogue.
- Impact-dominant duty (jaw, gyratory and cone crushers): austenitic manganese steel, which work-hardens under impact. Without enough impact, it never hardens and wears quickly.
- Abrasion-dominant duty (blow bars on feed without large lumps, chutes, slurry pump parts): high-chrome white iron, hard from the mould but brittle under shock.
- Mixed duty (mill liners, chute impact zones): martensitic alloy steels or bimetal solutions, depending on the balance between impact and sliding.
- Fine material sliding: alumina ceramic or a ceramic-filled epoxy can outlast steel plate (alumina ceramic vs AR steel).
To decide, we ask for the drawing or part number, the material handled and its size distribution, the current service life and, above all, how the part ends its life: worn through, cracked or broken. Grade details are in our guide to crusher wear parts alloy selection. Options are then compared on cost per tonne handled, not unit price.
Coating products matched to the service
A metal-filled epoxy rebuilds a worn volute or shaft; a ceramic-filled epoxy resists sliding slurry; an immersion lining protects the inside of a tank; an epoxy grout beds a pump baseplate. Mixing them up gives a repair that disbonds or wears through before the next shutdown.
We recommend a product based on the substrate, the attack mechanism, service temperature, chemicals in contact and the time available for cure. The data sheet sets the limits: thickness per coat, required preparation, application temperature range and time before return to service. Our guide to metal repair epoxy putty selection covers these criteria for repairs.
When the job goes beyond touch-up, application falls under our protective coatings service, with surface preparation and recorded inspections.
Documentation supplied
A part without paperwork is a part whose failure nobody can explain. Every delivery ships with the documents you need to receive it, install it and track it:
- Foundry castings: material certificate with chemical composition and mechanical tests, measured hardness and heat number, per the inspection document type specified under EN 10204.
- Grades: reference to the applicable specification, for example ASTM A128 for cast austenitic manganese steel or ASTM A532 for abrasion-resistant cast irons.
- Dimensional check against the drawing for mounting dimensions.
- Coating and repair products: technical data sheet, WHMIS-compliant safety data sheet, batch numbers and expiry date.
These documents support receiving inspection, then wear tracking from one part to the next.
Installation and inspection
Two ways of working, depending on your staffing and the shutdown window: we install, or your crew installs and we support them on site.
- Before the shutdown: check of mounting dimensions and seats, receipt of parts and documents, preparation of products and tooling.
- Wear parts: cleaning of seating surfaces, fitting, backing material behind liners where the equipment manufacturer requires it, tightening to its instructions, clearance checks.
- Coating products: surface preparation to the specified grade, monitoring of application conditions, thickness and continuity checked against the data sheet.
- After installation: baseline thickness reading or photo for wear tracking, return-to-service and cure instructions, records handed over.
When your crew applies the product, we check preparation, mixing and the first coats with them.
Planning around your shutdowns
In Quebec and Ontario, wear part change-outs are tied to the planned spring and fall shutdowns, sometimes winter. A casting is ordered well before the shutdown, not during it: foundry lead time depends on grade, size and the foundries' workload, and we confirm it in the quote. For critical parts, a spare set in stores avoids running on a worn-out part.
Coating products have their own winter constraints: heated storage, substrate and air within the application range, slower cure. We account for this in the installation plan.
When this service is not the right answer
- The part is worn but still sound: rebuilding it on site with filled epoxy often costs less than a new part. That is the job of maintenance and rehabilitation.
- The part is no longer catalogued and there is no drawing: it goes through reverse engineering and custom parts fabrication.
- The wear mechanism is unclear, or the same part fails at every shutdown: a feasibility study on the cause and the options beats another order.
- You need complete process equipment: that is not our trade, and we will say so.
Typical Applications
- Crusher wear parts: mantles, concaves, jaw plates, blow bars
- Mill, chute and hopper liners
- Metal- and ceramic-filled epoxies, abrasion and corrosion linings
- Wear part change-outs and product application during shutdowns
Typical Problems We Solve
- Wear parts that crack or wear out before the next planned shutdown
- Grade chosen out of habit rather than for the wear mechanism (impact, abrasion, sliding)
- Castings received without material certificate, heat number or hardness reading
- Repair product unsuited to the service, disbonding or wearing through early
What You Receive
- Grade or product recommendation based on the worn part and operating data
- Material certificates (chemistry, mechanical tests, hardness) traceable to the heat
- Technical data sheets, WHMIS safety data sheets and batch numbers for products
- Installation record with baseline thickness or photos for wear tracking
Timeline
Set in the quote, based on the grade, the part size, the foundry lead time and your shutdown date.
Standards & Certifications
- ASTM A128 — austenitic manganese steel castings
- ASTM A532 — abrasion-resistant cast irons
- EN 10204 — types of inspection documents for metallic products
- ISO 8501-1 — surface preparation grades before coating
Industries We Serve
- Mining — crusher wear parts, mill liners, slurry pump parts
- Cement & Limestone — crusher hammers and blow bars, chute and hopper liners
- Steel & Metallurgy — wear liners at raw material transfer points and chutes
- Energy — pump and fan wear surfaces, epoxy grouts under baseplates
Service FAQ
Which wear parts can you supply?
Crusher parts (mantles, concaves, jaw plates, blow bars, hammers), mill liners and chute or hopper liners, made from your drawing or the equipment manufacturer's reference. When neither is available, the part goes through reverse engineering under our custom parts fabrication service.
How do you choose between manganese steel and high-chrome iron?
By the way the part fails today. Manganese steel needs repeated impact to harden; under sliding abrasion with little impact, it stays soft. High-chrome white iron is very hard in the as-cast condition but does not tolerate heavy shock. A part that cracks points one way, a part that thins out evenly points the other. We ask for the worn part or photos, the feed material and the current service life before recommending a grade.
Can our own maintenance crew do the installation?
Yes. If you prefer to keep the work in-house, we review the procedure with your crew before the shutdown and are on site for the critical steps: seating surfaces, backing material, surface preparation, mixing and the first coats. Product limits come from the manufacturer's data sheet, which remains the reference.