Downtime on a hot line is enormously costly, and repairs must survive conditions that destroy ordinary materials. Steel production is brutal on equipment — extreme heat, scale, cooling-water chemistry, and heavy mechanical loads attack casting equipment, rolls, cooling systems, and structures continuously, through the thermal cycling and abrasion that ordinary materials cannot withstand.
Continuous casting equipment, mould and roll components, cooling systems and water boxes, fans and pumps, and vast structural steel all suffer high-temperature corrosion, erosion, scaling, and mechanical wear. Cooling-water corrosion and galvanic attack are constant threats around the plant.
Belzona high-temperature and erosion-resistant coatings and metal repair composites rebuild and protect steel-plant equipment in situ. Rumford Industrial Group applies them to extend the life of critical assets and keep production moving.
+Valves, Pipes, & Fittings
+Solids Handling Machinery
+Heat Exchangers
+Pumps
+Tanks & Chemical Containment
+Gaskets, Seals and Shims
+Walls
+Floors
- Pipework
- Pipe sections
- Water lines
- Gas lines
- Heat exchangers
- Condensers
- Gas scrubbers
- Multi-stage pumps
- Conveyor belts
- Rubber rollers
- Flights
- Cleats
- Clip joints
- Screw conveyors
- Chutes
- Hoppers
- Storage tanks
- Tank bases
- Secondary containment walls
- Secondary containment floors
- Crane rails
- Rail tracks
- Machinery plinths
- Structural supports
- Wear plates
Before
A steel mill blower rotor ran on bare metal, collecting deposits that choked airflow and threw the rotor out of balance.
- ProblemSurface Build-Up
- EffectLost Efficiency
- RiskImbalance & Vibration
After — Belzona
Grit blasted to clean metal, then coated with Belzona 1341 Supermetalglide — a smooth, hydrophobic surface that sheds build-up and recovers efficiency.
- CoatingBelzona 1341
- SurfaceSmooth & Hydrophobic
- Build-UpReduced