Hardox® Extreme

Make Hardox^® Extreme your choice of steel for industrial knives and shear blades, shredders, crusher and mill hammers, liner plates and other hard-working parts. The type of steel and steel grade you use in extremely high wear conditions will determine the characteristics and performance of the wear part, including its cutting quality, strength and durability. For your equipment to work longer without breaking down, these parts need high strength plus wear and shock resistance.

• Comes already through-hardened
• Machineable and weldable
• Exceptionally clean
• Guaranteed properties
• Use as an alternative to overlay and hard facing
• When you are looking for a more competitive solution offering longer service life and lower maintenance costs in shredding or crushing applications
• Shorter delivery time compared to high-chromium white iron castings
• Increase productivity by laser-cutting only, instead of cutting and hardfacing
• Opens up new design potential for stronger, lighter equipment

In the waste and recycling industry, as

• Shredder knives in plastics recycling
• Shredder knives for electric waste, e.g. for milling electric waste such as cables and synthetic materials
• In glass recycling equipment
• Crusher hammers for dry wall or plasterboard

In the cement industry, as cavity walls of cement brick molds, offering a good service life and low maintenance of the molds.

In wood processing and forestry, as harvester head knives and knives for debarkers and wood chippers.

In mineral processing, Hardox^® Extreme can be used as liner plates in crushers, feeder breakers and transfer chutes.

You can get quick access to hands-on support and recommendations from local engineers in your own language or in English. Our technical support team is backed up by SSAB’s worldwide network of sales offices and representatives. Whatever you build or process, we’ll help make sure your equipment delivers maximum productivity, service life and performance.

Our worldwide network of Hardox Wearparts Centers can produce the parts you need in a wide range of thicknesses to give your equipment the extra edge. Whether you need to fragment minerals, abrasive materials, electronic scrap or unsorted waste, or if you need the right liner wear plate in chutes, feeders, crushers, bins or buckets, a local Wearparts Center can give you advice.

The WearCalc app – free for Hardox^® customers – makes tough decisions about choosing the right wear plate easy. It helps you determine the increase in service life of equipment for different Hardox^® grades compared to mild steel. Calculations consider a range of abrasive materials, such as granite, clinker, coal, iron ore, limestone, sand, glass and household waste containing metal.