Wear-resistant dredge cutter teeth - a look at the development of the tooth and its impact on the economical and environmental aspects of the dredger, logistics and foundry
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Presented during:
CEDA Dredging Days 2009 - Dredging Tools for the Future, Rotterdam
Authors:
Wijma K - VOSTA LMG, The Netherlands
Abstract: VOSTA LMG has developed teeth with wear resistant inserts, so called DURACORE ® teeth. These teeth have big advantages compared with teeth that are made of conventional impact and wear resistant steels.
The wear life is several times better which increases the efficiency of the dredger significantly. Apart from this obvious economical advantage is that the total amount of energy and raw materials needed for producing the teeth has been decimated. Transport costs and energy needed to ship the teeth to the dredger has been decimated as well.
This paper describes the development of the teeth and the economical and environmental benefits.
Keywords: Wear resistant teeth, Efficiency, Environment