Tenmat Wear: Advanced Materials for Harsh Environments
Heavy machinery is only as strong and durable as the materials that go to make up its core components.
Tenmat Wear, part of the Diamorph Group, understands this better than anyone.
The company’s product range boasts some of the world’s most advanced industrial-grade materials on the market.
Tenmat Wear has managed to maintain its position at the vanguard of materials science thanks to the engineering expertise it has access to as part of the Diamorph Group.
Today, its heavy-duty parts can be found in components in sectors such as aerospace, mining, agriculture and shipping.
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Manufacturing
All Tenmat’s advanced materials are manufactured in-house.
This ensures all its products possess consistent quality, meet industry standards and are fully traceable.
Main Materials
Tenmat Wear produces five industry-leading materials that have applications across engineering and industry.
The five materials are: Ferobide, Feroform, Feroglide, Ferosafe and Railko.
Ferobide
A hard-wearing composite material that uses tungsten carbide in a matrix structure to endow it with ultra-high resistance to abrasion and mechanical impacts.
Ferobide is used by companies across the agriculture and mining sectors, where its hardwearing tungsten outer is prized for its toughness and durability in cutting and drilling tools.
Feroform
A polymer composite that possesses low-friction qualities, Feroform comes into its own when used in the bearing systems common in industrial components that turn and rotate.
Feroform comes in flat sheet form and also as flanged tube-length bearings.
The material’s versatility means that it can be used anywhere where smooth, low-resistance mechanical operation is required, especially in stern tubes on ships that house the propeller.
Feroglide
Another frictionless material, Feroglide is a woven PTFE-coated fabric that is reinforced with strengthening fibres.
Bonded to a metal backing (Inconel, stainless steel, carbon steel, or bronze are common), Feroglide bearings can be found in heavy-duty equipment used in the hydropower equipment sector and lots of industrial lifting equipment.
Ferosafe
Billed as an ‘uncuttable’ material, Ferosafe is resistant to carbide angle grinders, drills and associated cutting tools.
This means it has manifold uses in security equipment such as safe boxes and security locks, as it’s impervious to the cutting and grinding tools typically used to break into safes and locks – they don’t leave a mark on the material!
Railko
As the name suggests, Railko is an advanced material that has seen widespread adoption by the railway industry.
The material exploits the power of woven synthetic fibres to give it its super strength and excellent durability.
Railko’s additives and surface treatments, embedded in the resin matrix, also afford it self-lubricating properties, which reduce maintenance times and give it extra longevity.
Key Material Properties
- Exceptional Wear Resistance: Tenmat Wear’s Ferobide and Feroglide give the components that use it frictionlessness and wear resistance, which extends the useful life of critical components.
- High-Temperature Performance: Elements like tungsten and some of the epoxies the company uses to bind its polymer resins allow the components to be used in the hottest and most demanding industrial environments.
- Strength and Durability: The material properties of all Tenmat Wear’s components have been engineered with strength and durability in mind. The resin matrix structure used in the materials’ manufacture, coupled with their reinforcing fibres, means the company’s components are nigh-on unbreakable.
- Passive Fire Protection: Many of the company’s products are designed to enhance fire safety by effectively preventing or slowing the spread of flames.
Conclusion
Tenmat Wear’s advanced composite materials have been a game changer in many industries.
The company’s clever use of polymer resins, matrix structures, and some of the toughest elements on the planet means that Tenmat’s materials are today the industry standard.
