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Metco Joining & Cladding is your source for oxygen-fuel materials for surfacing and cladding applications. offers a wide range of materials for surfacing using arc welding processes. Our portfolio contains many unique and innovative products that provide our customers with benefits not available from other manufacturers.
Our products include surfacing materials for the following arc welding processes
- Oxygen-fuel Welding:
- OAW: Oxygen-acetylene welding
- SF: Spray and fuse powder welding
Our portfolio includes:
- Powders
- Rods
- Wires
- Cast tungsten carbide *
- Monocrystalline tungsten carbide *
- Spherical cast tungsten carbide *
- Sintered and crushed tungsten carbide *
- Carbide sinter pellets *
- Cobalt-, iron- and nickel-based powder alloys
- Carbide – self-fluxing alloy blends
- Diamond-containing powder products
(* for customer blending with an appropriate matrix material)
Our highly experienced materials engineers consider many factors, such as:
- Optimized carbide distribution, including products with bi-modal carbides
- Deposits having low mean free path; e.g., high carbide packing density
- Deposits that achieve the highest level of ASTM B611 (high-stress abrasion test)
- Deposits with superior impact resistance
Our products are the choice of and specified by, users in the toughest of markets, such as oil and gas, mining, agriculture, power generation and more.
