Production Process offers PU encapsulated ceramic wear parts.
Press Release Summary:
Allowing for complete production of urethane encapsulated ceramic shapes, Verkapse™ process can deliver complete assemblies within weeks. Blasch engineers can use any available wear materials, including Oxytron®, Nitron®, Altron®, and Invincer by Blasch RB®, and mold mounting features in urethane, such as flanges. Proprietary silicon carbide based materials can be cast into complex shapes, displaying tight and repeatable tolerances. All exhibit abrasion, thermal, and corrosion resistance.
Original Press Release:
Blasch Launches Verkapse(TM) - Polyurethane Encapsulated Ceramic Wear Parts.
ALBANY, NY –Â Blasch Precision Ceramics is now configured to not only provide the ceramic shapes but also the polymer processing allowing for complete production of urethane encapsulated ceramic shapes from one facility, lowering costs through single sourcing from the company that supplies the ceramic shapes.
Leveraging Blasch’s 35 years of molding experience coupled with significant advancements in CNC pattern making, the process can deliver complete encapsulated assemblies in just a few weeks.  “The VerkapseTM process has reduced both cost and lead time for our customers while providing a product with greater overall durability and reliability”; according to Tim Connors, Market Manager for Mining and Wear at Blasch.
Blasch engineers can use any of our available wear materials including Oxytron ® Nitron ®, Altron ® and Invincer by Blasch RB®. They can mold mounting features in the urethane like flanges, an often challenging design feature when implementing a ceramic solution.
Applications include cyclones, pumps, pipe spools & elbows, chutes and impact pads can all benefit from this marriage of materials.
For application in hydrocyclone separators and other mineral processing equipment, the critical choice of materials in the management of abrasion and wear materials can range from steel to rubber to urethane to ceramics. The superior abrasive wear resistance of certain ceramics is well known, although this desirable characteristic comes at a cost – the brittle nature of ceramics and its tendency to fracture when impacted.
This type of failure can allow chunks of ceramic to cascade through downstream process equipment potentially causing significant damage. Often rubber or urethane is used to hold the ceramic in place thereby providing an integral means to absorb impact and vibration while providing some containment function in the event of fracture. In the past, this encapsulation step was typically completed by a subcontractor using inserts sourced from a ceramic manufacturer
Oxytron ®, Nitron ®, Altron ® and Invincer by Blasch® RB are all proprietary silicon carbide based materials that can be cast into very complex shapes, displaying tight and repeatable tolerances that ensure repeated ease of installation. They are all more abrasion resistant than cast steels, rubber and urethanes alone and are only about one third the weight of their steel counterparts. All offer much higher thermal and corrosion resistance as well.
Founded in 1979, Blasch Precision Ceramics serves a variety of manufacturing and processing industries throughout the world, providing innovative, customized solutions for chemically difficult, abrasive or high temperature applications.
For additional information about Blasch VerkapseTM - Urethane Encapsulated Ceramic Shapes for the Power Generation, Mining, Cement and Mineral Process Industries, call 1-800-550-5768 (or 518-436-1263) extension 21, write Blasch Precision Ceramics, 580 Broadway, Albany, NY 12204, FAX 518-436-0098, email tconnors@blaschceramics.com or visit www.blaschceramics.com.
