New expanded range of wear plate kits for heavy machinery released

An expanded range of wear plate kits is being manufactured by the TW Woods Group for the maintenance of heavy machinery employed by such industries as mining and energy, oil and gas, civil engineering and construction and infrastructure.

The growing range – produced in response to industry needs for maximum uptime, durability and cost-efficiency – now includes kits for some of the industries’ most widely used bulldozers including 854 Cat push dozer kit, D11 dozer liners, Cat 793 liners and Cat D10 and D11 blades.
These are complemented by stock kits for Hitachi R280 truck trays and Hitachi EH 4500 excavators, as well as custom-fabricated options for all major makes of machinery, says T W Woods Managing Director Mr Tom Woods.
The kits – typically employed on heavy bulldozers, trucks, graders and loaders – are precision cut, processed and packaged at the company’s new plate processing facility at Tomago, near Newcastle, which also handles challenging maintenance and fabrication tasks involving tanks, silo, chute, loader and other materials handling equipment.
Kits are distributed nationally after fabrication to the quality standards of TW Woods national and international clients, which include, for a variety of metal products, Delta Energy, Incitec Pivot, Integra Coal, Laing O’Rourke, Xstrata and surface and underground mining companies throughout Australia including iron ore producers in the Pilbara and coal companies in Queensland.

“Because we handle the broad spectrum of metal fabrication tasks in the one facility, we offer optimised quality control and delivery times for wear plate products frequently needed to precise deadlines,” said Tom Woods. “We are always aware of the uptime and maintenance needs of our world-class customers across the heavy industry sector, and we share their standards of workmanship and reliability as applied to heavy machinery,” said Mr Woods, whose company has undertaken multi-million dollar plant investment encompassing 4,500 sq m of purpose-built fully equipped workshop space at Tomago.
New plant used in the cutting and processing of wear plate kits includes a 300 amp cad-cam profile plasma cutting bed capable of cutting 13 m x 3.5 m plates up to 60 mm thick with plasma, and more than 150 mm with oxy. The facility also houses a 1,600 amp stud welding machine and a plate handling and processing facility serviced by a 10 tonne overhead gantry crane.
The company’s press brake facilities include a 1,000 ton x 3.2m brake press that can press form steel plate up to 60 mm thick, making it suitable for major fabrication tasks including include draglines, buckets, mills, earthmoving equipment, ripper blades, pressure tanks and pipelines and diverse heavy plate fabrications. The company’s services include specialised shaping, fabrication and welding technology for metals including carbon steel, stainless steel and aluminium.
Image caption: TW Woods Directors Tom and Glenn Woods with their plasma cutting plant.

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