UTP hardfacing alloys are engineered for maximum wear resistance, crack control, and service life in mining and heavy industry.
For severe abrasive wear with moderate impact. Ideal for fixed-plant liners and chutes.
Description: Basic coated hardfacing stick electrode against impact and abrasion.
Classifications: EN ISO 14700 E Fe8; DIN 8555 E 6-UM-60.
Available formats: Covered electrode (3.2-5.0 mm).
Benefits: Tough, hard, and abrasion-resistant.
Applications: Wear plates, elbows, and material handling in wet mining.
Hardness: 56-58 HRC
Description: Gas-shielded metal-cored wire, seamless, good weldability, good abrasion resistance, minimized slag formation with easy slag removal.
Classifications: EN ISO 14700 T Fe8; DIN 8555 MSG 6-GF-60-GP.
Available formats: Seamless cored wire (1.2-1.6 mm); Gas-shielded (M21: Ar 82% + CO2 18%).
Benefits: Especially suited for automated welding.
Applications: Crusher liners, chutes, hoppers, and rebuilt slurry lines in mining operations.
Hardness: 57-60 HRC.
Description: Solid wire for wear-resistant claddings on parts subject to abrasion, impact and compression.
Classifications: EN ISO 14700 S Fe8; DIN 8555 G 6-60.
Available formats: Solid wire (1.2 mm), MIG, TIG, Stick Electrode
Benefits: Good resistance to metal-on-metal wear.
Applications: Wear plates, elbows, and material handling in wet mining.
Hardness: 56-58 HRC
Additional Suggestions: UTP AF 700 O (for higher impact), UTP ROBOTIC CHROMELESS 600 (2025 Cr-free alternative below).
For extreme abrasion and high-energy particles. Maximizes hardness in aggressive ground conditions.
2025 New: UTP ROBOTIC CHROMELESS 600 – Cr/Ni-free for safer, high-performance overlays.
Description: Rutile-coated stick electrode for highly wear-resistant claddings against grinding abrasion combined with light impacts. Formerly UTP LEDURIT 61
Classifications: EN ISO 14700 E Fe14.
Available formats: Covered electrode (3.2-5.0 mm).
Benefits: Highly wear-resistant.
Applications: Excavator buckets, dozer blades, high-wear ground-engaging tools in surface mining.
Hardness: 60-62 HRC
Description: Rutile-coated stick electrode for highly wear-resistant claddings against grinding abrasion combined with light impacts. Formerly UTP LEDURIT 61
Classifications: EN ISO 14700 E Fe14.
Available formats: Covered electrode (3.2-5.0 mm).
Benefits: Highly wear-resistant.
Applications: Excavator buckets, dozer blades, high-wear ground-engaging tools in surface mining.
Hardness: 60-62 HRC
Description: Basic coated high-efficiency stick electrode for wear-resistant claddings against strong grinding abrasion combined with medium impacts. Formerly UTP LEDURIT 65
Classifications: EN ISO 14700 E Fe8.
Available formats: Covered electrode (3.2-5.0 mm).
Benefits: High deposition rate, crack-resistant.
Applications: High-wear G.E.T., crusher components.
Hardness: 65 HRC
Description: Gas-shielded metal-cored wire, seamless, high hardness as a result of special carbides, but remains crack-free.
Classifications: EN ISO 14700 T Fe 8; DIN 8555 MSG 6-GF-60-GP.
Available formats: Seamless cored wire (1.2-1.6 mm); Gas-shielded (M21: Ar 82% + CO2 18%).
Benefits: Especially suited for automated welding.
Applications: Excavator buckets, dozer blades, high-wear ground-engaging tools in surface mining.
Hardness: 57-62 HRC
Description: Gas-shielded metal-cored wire, seamless, NiB-alloyed, excellent resistance to abrasion induced by sand and minerals.
Classifications: EN ISO 14700 T Fe 13; DIN 8555 MSG 2-GF-55-G.
Available Formats/Corresponding Filler Metals: Seamless cored wire (1.2-1.6 mm); Gas-shielded (M21: Ar 82% + CO2 18%).
Benefits: High resistance to grinding abrasion.
Applications: Slurry pumps, hydrocyclones, and backfill lines in underground mining.
Hardness: 62-67 HRC
Description: Gas-shielded metal-cored wire, seamless, NiB-alloyed, excellent resistance to abrasion induced by sand and minerals.
Classifications: EN ISO 14700 T Fe 13; DIN 8555 MSG 2-GF-55-G.
Available Formats/Corresponding Filler Metals: Seamless cored wire (1.2-1.6 mm); Gas-shielded (M21: Ar 82% + CO2 18%).
Benefits: High resistance to grinding abrasion.
Applications: Slurry pumps, hydrocyclones, and backfill lines in underground mining.
Hardness: 62-67 HRC
Description: Self-shielded flux cored wire designed to resist high stress grinding abrasion with low impact and solid erosion at service temperatures up to 650 °C.
Classifications: EN ISO 14700 T Fe16; DIN 8555 MF 10-GF-65-GRTZ.
Available Formats: Flux-cored wire (1.2-2.8 mm); Self-shielded.
Benefits: Temperature-resistant, suitable for hot-wear environments.
Applications: Wear plates, sinter finger crushers, exhaust fan blades in pellet plants, perlite crushers, bucket teeth and lips on bucketwheel excavators, boiler fan blades, burden area in blast furnace bells, etc.
Hardness: 63 HRC
Description: Self-shielded flux cored wire designed to resist high stress grinding abrasion at service temperature not exceeding 450 °C.
Classifications: EN ISO 14700 T Fe8; DIN 8555 MF 10-GF-60-GR.
Available Formats: Flux-cored wire (1.2-2.8 mm); Self-shielded.
Benefits: No gas required, high efficiency for field repairs.
Applications: Shovel, excavator, dredge and dragline bucket lips and teeth, hammers, rippers, crushing equipment, wear plates, expeller screws, giratory crushers, etc.
Hardness: 63 HRC
Description: Self-shielded flux cored wire designed to give an extreme resistance against high-stress-grinding abrasion and erosion without impact, and hardness can be achieved in the first layer.
Classifications: EN ISO 14700 T Fe20; DIN 8555 MF 10-GF-70-GZ.
Available Formats: Flux-cored wire (1.2-2.8 mm); Self-shielded.
Benefits: Extreme hardness from the first layer, ideal for severe abrasion.
Applications: Shredder teeth, augers in fine-particle erosion.
Hardness: 68 HRC
Description: Self-shielded flux-cored wire designed to deposit an alloy resistant to high stress grinding abrasion with low impact.
Classifications: EN ISO 14700 T Fe8; DIN 8555 MF 10-GF-60-GR.
Available Formats: Flux-cored wire (1.2-2.8 mm); Self-shielded.
Benefits: Good for multi-layer builds, crack-resistant.
Applications: Wear plates and chutes for abrasive material handling.
Hardness: 60 HRC
Additional Suggestions: UTP AF 701 (see above for max hardness), UTP AF 680 V (vanadium boost for finer particles), UTP ROBOTIC series brochure.
For rebuilding worn parts and crack-resistant bases before hardfacing overlays.
Description: Basic coated stick electrode for tough surfacing against rolling wear.
Classifications: EN ISO 14700 E Fe1.
Available formats: Covered electrode (3.2-5.0 mm).
Benefits: Hardness of the weld metal approx. 270 HB.
Applications: Bucket lips, worn edges, and machine housings in mobile equipment repair.
Hardness: 270 HB
Description: TIG rod for wear-resistant and good machinable build-ups.
Classifications: EN ISO 14700 E Fe1.
Available formats: TIG rod (1.6-3.2 mm); Shielding gas I1 (Ar 100%).
Benefits: Excellent toughness and crack resistance; good post-weld machinability.
Applications: Bucket lips, worn edges, and machine housings in mobile equipment repair.
Hardness: 250 HB (23 HRC)
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Description: Gas-shielded metal-cored wire, seamless, suited for wear-resistant parts subject to heavy impact and shock, especially suited for automated welding.
Classifications: EN ISO 14700 T Fe 1; DIN 8555 MSG 1-GF-250-P.
Available formats/corresponding filler metals: Seamless cored wire (1.2-1.6 mm); Gas-shielded (M21: Ar 82% + CO2 18%).
Benefits: High deposition rate, crack-free welds.
Applications: Shafts, rollers, structural rebuilds in fixed-plant maintenance.
Hardness: 250 HB
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For ultra-severe abrasion and erosion in high-value components.
Description: The filled gas welding rod WEARtig XD FeW60 is suitable for claddings on tools and machine parts subject to the highest mineral wear, such as drill bits, roller bits, sets of drill rods, excavator buckets, and mixer blades. It is also suitable for highly stressed machine parts used in the reprocessing of sand, cement, lime, clay, coal, and slag.
WEARtig XD FeW60 is suited for extreme mineralic abrasion with medium impact strain.
Classifications: EN ISO 14700 T Fe 20.
Available formats: TIG rod; Shielding gas I1 (Ar 100%).
Benefits: Matrix hardness 60 HRC, carbide hardness 2500 HV.
Applications: High-pressure slurry lines, valve gates, pump impellers.
Hardness: 60 HRC (matrix); Carbides 2500 HV
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Description: Gas shielded metal cored wire with outstanding resistance to abrasive wear, even when wear occurs in a corrosive environment.
Classifications: EN ISO 14700 T Ni 20; DIN 8555 MF 22-GF-45-G.
Available formats: Flux-cored wire (1.6-2.4 mm); Gas-shielded (M13: Ar + 2% O2 or M21: Ar 82% + CO2 18%).
Benefits: Exceptional fine-particle erosion resistance, corrosion-tolerant matrix.
Applications: High-pressure slurry lines, valve gates, pump impellers.
Hardness: 44 HRC (matrix); Carbides >2000 HV
Description: TIG rod for GTAW or oxy-fuel welding, tungsten carbides in a nickel matrix, excellent resistance to friction wear by hard, abrasive materials.
Classifications: EN ISO 14700 C Ni 20.
Available formats: TIG rod (1.6-3.2 mm); Shielding gas I1 (Ar 100%).
Benefits: Matrix hardness 55 HRC, carbide hardness 2500 HV.
Applications: Severe mineral abrasion with fine particles, edges and lips.
Hardness: 55 HRC (matrix)
Additional Suggestions: For cobalt alloys or tool steels, see UTP Special Applications Products in the official Digital Consumables Catalogue here.
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