HFW 512: The Key to Long Equipment Lifespans

Learn how HFW 512, our proprietary alloy, helped one our customers achieve significant cost reductions.

At HFW, we frequently discuss how our work saves customers time and money while improving performance.

Here is some neat data to back that claim up.

Our customer, a producer of specialty chemical materials, came to us in the 1980s with rolls that were lasting two months in service. In short order, HFW was able to improve that to 4-5 months. Not bad! 

The real improvement came when we began experimenting with using HFW 512 on these rolls. HFW 512 is a proprietary alloy that HFW has successfully used in many industries. Working with a highly regarded metallurgist at our customer, we took the life of those rolls from a few months to 5-6 years in service. 

With 40 years of data, you can see the drastic improvement and cost savings this has yielded for our customer. In a world where cost reduction often reigns supreme, this is real data that can be taken to purchasing teams and company leaders to demonstrate the step-change improvement in performance.

It is one thing to say you can do something. It is another to have decades of data to show your results. 

THIS is the power of working with HFW!