Abrasion Resistant Steel Plate AR400 AR500 NM450 6mm-60mm Wear Plate For Mining

Abrasion resistant steel plate is a quenched and tempered low alloy steel engineered for one single purpose: to survive sliding abrasion and impact wear far longer than ordinary structural steel. Our AR400, AR450 and AR500 plates are hardened to Brinell hardness levels between 360 and 530, which gives wear parts such as excavator buckets, loader blades, chute liners, dump truck bodies and crusher components a service life several times longer than common Q235 or A36 plate of the same thickness. The NM series produced to Chinese standard GB/T 24186 offers the same performance family with guaranteed hardness and impact properties verified by mill certificates on every heat.

Although the plate is hard, it remains workable: AR400 can be flame cut, plasma cut, drilled and welded using the low hydrogen consumables and preheat procedures recommended for this material class, while AR500 is used mainly for liners and wear strips that are bolted or welded onto milder backing structures. Because replacement of worn steel is often the largest maintenance cost in mining and material handling, choosing the correct hardness grade reduces downtime and total cost of ownership. Our workshop supplies plates cut to your drawing with holes and bevels ready for assembly, and we keep popular thicknesses in stock for fast dispatch to maintenance teams around the world.

• Extreme surface hardness: Brinell hardness from 360 HBW in AR400 up to 530 HBW in AR500 resists scratching and gouging by rock and ore.
• Longer wear life: field experience shows abrasion resistant plate outlasts mild steel by three to five times in sliding wear applications.
• Impact toughness balance: controlled quenching and tempering keeps the plate tough enough for impact loading at low temperatures.
• Cut to size service: plasma and flame cutting to your drawing with optional drilling, bevelling and bending for ready to fit parts.
• Certified hardness: every plate is hardness tested and supplied with a mill certificate tracing the heat and mechanical results.
• Cost effective maintenance: thinner wear plates replace thick mild steel sections, cutting weight, welding time and replacement frequency.

Abrasion resistant steel plate is installed in mining chutes and hoppers, crusher liners, excavator and loader buckets, grader blades, dump truck bodies and liners, conveyor skirting and transfer points, wear liners for cement plants and quarries, dredge components, recycling shredder parts and agricultural implements that work in soil and rock. Fabricators and maintenance workshops use AR plate for wear patches on existing equipment, while OEM manufacturers build complete buckets, blades and liners from the material. Our cutting service lets you order finished wear parts that bolt directly onto the machine, minimizing downtime during changeover.

Plates are packed on export pallets or steel skids with edge protection and waterproof wrapping, and cut parts are crated with protective corner pieces for sea and air freight. Every delivery is accompanied by a mill test certificate covering hardness, chemical composition and mechanical properties, and third party inspection by SGS or BV can be arranged before shipment. Our technical team advises on grade selection, welding consumables and preheat temperature for your specific application, and we welcome trial orders of one or two plates so you can compare wear performance in your own operation.