AG COMPONENTS YOU CAN DEPEND ON TO RESIST WEAR AND TEAR

At Ƶ, we know what you’re up against. The agriculture industry will need new technologies to meet the demands of a hungry world while relying on increasingly scarce resources. Global food production is expected to increase by almost 70% by 2050. That requires agriculture wear products that run longer and operate more efficiently across the agricultural value chain. We’re at the forefront of developing this next generation of solutions.

 

Grain Harvesting 

Ƶ leverages advanced surface engineering and vast materials knowledge to enhance the durability and efficiency of grain harvesting components, ensuring optimal performance in the field. We work with the world’s leading Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM’s) to improve wear resistance and reduce weight in this critically important equipment.

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Combine Header

Combine headers are designed to efficiently cut and gather crops, ensuring smooth material flow and minimal grain loss. Ƶ’s advanced manufacturing capabilities, wide variety of wear coatings, and strong understanding of material properties and heat treatment processes allow us to work with our customers to enhance the durability and performance of header components.

Stalk Rolls/Knives

Stalk rolls and stalk roll knives aggressively process corn stalks, improving residue breakdown and facilitating smooth harvesting. Our efficient machining, heat treatment, and coating processes are combined for a quality component.

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Skid Plates

Skid plates provide height control and ground protection for combine headers, ensuring even cutting and reducing excessive wear.

Skid Plate

Stalk Chopper Knives

Stalk chopper knives cut and shred crop residue, accelerating decomposition and preparing the field for the next planting season. Their sharp, durable edges ensure effective chopping in demanding conditions.

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Belt Supports

Belt supports provide stability to belt-driven components in the header. Our wear coatings can be applied to these components for extended life.

Belt supports for combine

Deck Plates

Deck plates regulate stalk and ear flow into the combine header, reducing grain loss and improving harvesting efficiency. Ƶ produces these components utilizing either a press or laser cutter, form, and hard-face weld in-house.

Deck Plates

Combine Threshing and Separating

As crops are separated in the body of the combine, it’s important that components are delivering superior performance and longevity, optimizing the combine’s efficiency and throughput. Ƶ provides the manufacturing technologies needed to ensure threshing components meet the wear and impact requirements of this environment.

Elements/Rasp Bars

Threshing elements and rasp bars provide aggressive yet controlled grain threshing, removing the grain from the plant with minimal damage. Ƶ’s wear coatings and heat treatment processes enhance the durability and efficiency of these components, ensuring superior threshing performance.

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Tines

Tines assist in crop separation by moving material efficiently through the threshing system, reducing grain loss. Ƶ’s wear coatings and heat treatment processes enhance the durability of these components.

Wear Plates

Used in various agriculture equipment applications, wear plates provide extended life to high wear areas. Ƶ’s heat treat and coating options provide superior performance.

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Concave Bars

Concave bars play a crucial role in the threshing process by effectively separating grain from chaff. Ƶ’s precision engineering and advanced heat treatment and wear coating processes ensure these components deliver high performance and durability.

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Flights

Flights control material movement inside the separator, ensuring an even flow for effective grain separation. Ƶ’s experience in forming and heat treating these components has been proven to provide superior, quality parts.

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Coated Hardware

As the life of components is extended, it may also be necessary to extend the life of the hardware that secures the components. Ƶ can apply wear resistant coatings to bold heads to ensure adequate lifespan of hardware.

Coated Bolts

Combine Residue Management

Residue management involves processing and distributing crop residue after the grain has been separated. Ƶ’s manufacturing processes produce long-lasting components for superior residue management and reduced maintenance needs.

Paddles

Paddles assist in evenly distributing chaff and crop residue, preventing excessive buildup and promoting faster decomposition. With Ƶ’s advanced wear coatings and heat treatment, these paddles are built to withstand demanding conditions and ensure optimal distribution.

Paddles

Stationary Knives

Stationary knives provide a cutting edge for chopping crop residue efficiently before discharge. Ƶ’s proprietary bevel process and heat treatment ensures these knives maintain sharpness and durability for effective residue management.

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Swinging Chopping Knives

Swinging chopping knives enhance residue breakdown by providing flexible, high-speed chopping action. Ƶ’s wear coatings and heat treatment extend ensure these knives deliver quality performance, improving overall residue management.

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Tillage, Soil Prep, and Planting

We improve the properties of metals and alloys using our expert heat treating techniques and with a wide variety of wear-resistant coatings to provide the most durable performance and wear characteristics in tillage, planting and fertilizing components.

SWEEPS Sweeps
Sweeps are V-shaped blades used in field cultivators and chisel plows for weed control and soil aeration. They maintain a smooth seedbed with minimal soil disturbance. Ƶ's advanced wear coatings, heat treatment, and precision machining ensure these sweeps are durable and perform reliably in tough conditions.
SCRAPERS Scrapers
Mud scrapers keep planter and tillage components clean by preventing soil buildup, ensuring accurate depth control and smooth operation. Ƶ's coating and weld overlay capabilities such as PTA (Plasma Transferred Arc) technology enhance durability and can potentially offer superior performance or lower cost compared to carbide tiles.
seeding knives tiled Seeding Knives
Seeding and fertilizer points are precision wear components designed for accurate seed and nutrient placement. Ƶ can combine several manufacturing capabilies for these components including welding, brazing, hard-facing, and heat treatment to provide a robust component that will perform to the highest expectations.
FERTILIZER APPLICATION TUBE Seed Tube Guards
Seed tube guards protect seed tubes from excessive wear and impact in high-speed planting conditions. They ensure consistent seed placement and spacing, helping to maximize emergence and uniform stand establishment.
Harvesting of corn field with combine

Hay and Forage

We produce a wide range of components for forage harvesters, mower conditioners and balers by optimizing metals and alloys with specific heat treatments and wear coatings. We work with the world’s leading Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM’s) to improve wear resistance and reduce weight in this critically important equipment.

Turtle_Disc Discs "Turtles"
Discs (sometimes referred to as "turtles") are the rotating cutting component in disc mowers and mower conditioners. It powers the cutting action, ensuring efficient crop flow and a clean cut. Ƶ's precision forming, welding, machining and heat treatment processes enhance the durability and performance of these discs and the associated mounting hardware.
Disc Bracket Disc Brackets
A disc bracket serves to securely attach the disc blades to the frame of the implement. This ensures the discs maintain the correct angle and spacing.
Rock-Guard Rock Guards
Rock guards protect cutting components from damage caused by rocks and debris, ensuring longevity and reducing downtime. Ƶ can form, weld, and heat treat these components efficiently.
skidplate_1024 Skid Plates
Skid plates protect the mower deck and control cutting height, preventing excessive wear on the cutterbar while allowing smooth operation over uneven terrain. Ƶ's advanced heat treat processes can provide long-lasting protection. Coatings may also be used to further enhance component life.
shear_bar_1024 Shear Bars
The shear bar works in conjunction with the cutterhead to create a precise, scissor-like cutting action for chopping forage into uniform lengths. Ƶ's manufacturing processes ensure these shear bars deliver consistent, precise cuts and maintain durability under demanding conditions. Ƶ has the flexibility to utilize different base materials, heat treat processes, or coating options to manufacture shear bars.
Livestock Feeding

Livestock Feeding

Feed Mixers are a critical component in every livestock operation. The use of wear resistant coatings on our patented MARBAIN® base metal extends the life of the knife component — satisfying your customers’ demand for durability and fewer replacements.

FB_mixer_knives Feeder Mixer Knives
Mixer knives cut and blend feed ingredients in TMR (Total Mixed Ration) mixers, ensuring even distribution of nutrients for livestock. We optimize material selection and the austemper heat treat process to increase blade strength, while at the same time reducing blade thickness and the need for a heavy backing plate. The use of a wear resistant thermal spray coating on Ѵ® base material creates a self-sharpening edge to extend service life.
grain hammer Grain Hammers
Ƶ is your trusted partner for top-quality grain hammers that enhance agricultural efficiency. Our cutting-edge coating technologies boost performance, ensuring your equipment remains durable and reliable.

Tractor

Ƶ specializes in manufacturing high-performance wear parts for tractors, designed to withstand the rigors of agricultural work. Ƶ’s wear parts are essential for various components of the tractor, as well as the parts that support the applications, including soil preparation, planting, harvesting, and tillage.

drawbars Drawbars
Drawbars provide a strong connection between tractors and implements, transferring pulling force efficiently. Built to withstand heavy loads and tough field conditions, Ƶ has the machining and several types of heat treatment capabilities required to produce a wide variety of drawbar sizes in both bent or straight designs.

Irrigation

Ƶ provides a range of wear products specifically designed for walking irrigation systems. These products are engineered to ensure reliable performance by withstanding the harsh conditions, the pressure and stress of continuous water flow, and constant movement associated with irrigation systems.

bronze gear irrigation Bronze Gears
Bronze worm gears have been proven to be an ideal material for use in for Irigation System equipment. Ƶ can cast bronze gear blanks and can machine in house to a customers required dimensions.