Conforma Clad’s Tri-Metallic Advantage provides the industry’s top wear protection, with a hard, abrasion-resistant bore and a ductile, chip-resistant apex.

Your extruder barrel’s apexes are continuously exposed to severe wear. Traditional protective coatings applied to apexes quickly chip, leaving them defenseless. Conforma Clad’s Tri-Metallic Advantage combines unique cladding formulas to provide abrasion-resistant bores and ductile, chip-resistant apexes. 
 
History of Tri-Metallic Apex:

• 1980 — Conforma Clad developed wear protection for extrusion barrels.
• 1990 — Improved barrel cladding with welded apexes.
• 1992 — Introduced apexes clad with WC200.
• 1996 — Barrels successfully clad with WC200 in bores and WC219 on apexes, providing superior protection to both bores and apexes. This formula is also known as WPR29.

Traditional wear protection:  
 

Cast Liners — often chip due to brittleness	Spun Cast Liners — tend to split at the apex