Expert Hardox® wear plate processing

At SSAB Steel Service Center Vancouver, we strictly adhere to SSAB’s best practices for fabricating Hardox® wear plate, Strenx® performance steel and Duroxite® overlay grades into parts, delivering wear performance upgrades and structural steel that can greatly increase your equipment’s service life and production availability.

From single components to full assemblies

SSAB Steel Service Center Vancouver offers fast-turnaround thermal cutting of thin and thick plates on five high-quality thermal-cutting machines. We have expertise in the machining, welding, forming, laser cutting and water-jet cutting of Hardox® wear plate, Strenx® performance steel, Duroxite® overlay and Toolox® engineering and tool steel. Plus, we can capture and process FARO scans to produce fast and accurate liner kit packages for repair applications.

Thermal cutting

Flame (oxy) cutting

(Machine 1)
MANUFACTURER: Messer
TABLE SIZE: 53’ x 10’
TABLE TYPES: Dry table
CUTTING CAPABILITY: Up to 8” thick
NUMBER OF TORCHES: 4 x Alfa torches
TOLERANCES: +/- 1/16”

Plasma cutting

(Machine 1)
MANUFACTURER: Ficep
TABLE SIZE: 53’ x 10’
CUTTING CAPABILITY: Up to 2” thick
PLASMA TORCH(ES): 1
PLASMA SOURCE: Hypertherm HPR400HD
OXY TORCH(ES): 3
TOLERANCES: +/- 1/16”

(Machine 2)
MANUFACTURER: Messer
TABLE SIZE: 48’ x 10’
CUTTING CAPABILITY: Up to 1.5” thick
PLASMA TORCH(ES): 1
PLASMA SOURCE: Hypertherm HPR260HD
TOLERANCES: +/- 1/16”

(Machine 3)
MANUFACTURER: Koike
TABLE SIZE: 53’ x 10’
CUTTING CAPABILITY: Up to 1.5” thick
PLASMA TORCH(ES): 1
PLASMA SOURCE: Hypertherm HPR260XD
OXY TORCH(ES): 1
TOLERANCES: +/- 1/16”

Additional cutting capabilities

Standalone bevelling station (flame cut)

CNC machining

MANUFACTURER: Fadal 6030
TABLE SIZE: 60”x30”
SPINDLE SPEED: 10,000 rpm / 15 HP / 300 Nm
TOLERANCES: +/- 0.001”

We specialize in the machining of Hardox® wear plate, including:

  • Drilling
  • Countersunk drilling
  • Chamfering

Steel forming, laser cutting, waterjet cutting and shot blasting

We offer our customers steel forming, laser cutting, waterjet cutting, shot blasting and more through outside vendors. We can manage all these processes for our customers, or recommend experienced facilities if the customer prefers to manage these operations themselves.

Wear part repairs, rebuilds and re-engineering

  • Onsite equipment measurement using FARO 3D scanning, imaging, and realization technology to produce CAD drawings for your approval prior to any steel processing
  • Onsite scanning to produce wear liner kits for effective and fast turnaround of equipment repairs
  • Design improvements, ranging from simple steel grade upgrades to re-engineering via SSAB Engineering
  • Expedited services and delivery