Norck, a leading digital manufacturing company, provides extremely reliable, fast, top quality wear resistant parts for a wide range of industries such as industrial cutting tools (check our brand Baucor Tools for cutting tools, and industrial blades), carbide parts for aerospace, and defense. We can manufacture wear resistant parts from high speed steel, tool steel, tungsten carbide, titanium carbide and many other top quality materials with extremely tight precision.

Norck is an expert company in the  assembly and fabrication of sheet metal parts, CNC machined precision metal parts, 3D printed parts, composite materials, and parts made with molding and casting for a wide range of industries including aerospace, defense, robotics,  industrial, automotive, electronics, energy, hardware, and consumer products. Our team of highly qualified engineers and cutting-edge facilities will provide you with quality products with the quickest turnaround time at a competitive price. Whether you have high volume production projects or rapid prototyping needs, Norck can manage it with the results better than expectations.

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Let’s now give you some insight how Norck manufactures wear resistant parts made from high quality steels, carbide, titanium, and ceramics.

Wear describes the loss of material of a part due to mechanical, thermal, or chemical interactions. Wear-resistant parts are mechanical components that resist wearing. Wear is often due to friction between parts such as cutting blades, gears, bushings, and bearings.

In many cases reducing the friction reduces the wear of parts which can be done by:

• Choosing materials with a lower friction coefficient
• Heat-treating surfaces to make them more rigid
• Using lubrication

Wear-resistant custom parts can be made or fabricated using several fabrication methods, and they are used in the following sectors:

   - Medical: surgical tools, implants, and orthopedics.
   -  Industrial: Welded structures, gears, shafts, jigs and fixtures, and enclosures.
   - Hardware: Hinges, handles, tools, screws, nuts, and rivets
   - Aerospace & Automotive: Bodies of aircraft and cars, electrical cables
   - Robotics: Robots' bodies, gears, shafts, grippers
   - Consumer products: home appliances, cooking utensils, PC enclosures, jewelry

Wear-resistant custom parts have many advantages over mass-produced parts:

• Highly customizable: With the ability to produce custom parts, your products won't depend on what exists already in the market. A custom part is as custom can be more rigid and more adapted to your specific needs. We have the proper process to make it.
• Lower production costs: A custom part might cost more per part than medium or high-volume production. But it is cost-effective for two reasons:
   -  It doesn’t require a big budget for development, tooling, and fabrication
   -  It can be manufactured in smaller quantities
• Convenient for startups and small businesses: Wear Resistant Custom Parts is ideal for startups and small businesses since it helps them turn any idea into a tangible product and test the market before diving into mass production.

Wear-resistant custom parts can be manufactured through metal or plastic materials, and for that, Norck offers the following processes:

1. Custom Metal Component:

Subtractive manufacturing:
• Sheet metal fabrication: It is a set of manufacturing methods of cutting and forming metal sheets to produce parts. The mainly used materials are:
- Steel alloy 
- Stainless steel
- Aluminum

•  Tube bending: Tube bending is a set of techniques to bend straight tubes into different shapes. The process can be performed by using cold or hot methods. Generally, round stock is used, but rectangular tubes and pipes can also be bent.A post-process can be mandatory to remove burrs. It can also be used with laser tube cutting to add holes and shapes or to cut the edges.

•  CNC machining: CNC machining (Computer Numerical Controlled machining) designates a process that uses a computer to control the trajectory of the machining tool. It employs many machining techniques, such as milling, turning, and drilling. Used materials are:
- Titanium
- Stainless steel
- Aluminum
- Nickel             
- Cobalt
- Copper

•  Milling: It is a process that uses a rotating tool to remove material from the fixed workpiece. There are two types of milling, horizontal and vertical milling.

•  Turning: This method uses a lathe to turn workpieces at high speeds and a tool with a special shape to remove layers of material from the workpiece. The workpiece shape is generally revolutionary. If the workpiece is long enough, an extra part is used to support the weight of the workpiece.

•  Drilling: It is a process used to make homes in the workpiece. The holes are generally perpendicular to the surface but can have angles with special tooling. This process includes taping, counterboring, and countersinking.

•  EDM: It is a thermal cutting process of metal parts using a high voltage electrical discharge, hence the name EDM (Electrical discharge machining). In this technique, electrical discharges (sparks) heat a metallic shape that engraves through the workpiece. EDM can use a wire instead of a shape to cut through the workpiece (wire EDM).
- Titanium
- Stainless steel
- Aluminum

Formative manufacturing:
•  Die casting: It is a process in which molten metal is fed into a mold cavity under high pressure. Mold is made from hardened steel and contains the shape of the component to be molded. The die-casting process is used for high and medium-volume production due to the high cost of mold fabrication.

Treatments:
•  Heat treatment: It is a process that alters a part's physical properties, making it more wear-resistant. Heat treatment consists of heating the part to austenitic temperature (specific for each material), then the part is cooled down quickly or slowly to obtain a harder or softer metal.

• Coating: It is a surface treatment process where a surface where a layer of hard material (such as ceramic) is added to the part to make it harder. The process starts by cleaning and brushing the part's surface, then a mixture of resin and a hardener material is sprayed over the part.

• Carburizing: This process consists of adding carbon to a part's surface to make it harder, thus, wear-resistant. First, the carbon is pulverized to the surface of a workpiece. Then it is heated to modify the physical characteristics. It is mainly used for low-carbon steel parts, gears, shafts, bolts, and CNC-machined parts.

• Nitriding: It is the process of adding nitrogen to the surface of the metal part to make it more wear-resistant. Nitriding consists of heating the part and diffusing nitrogen into it. It is mainly used for bearings, piston rings, shafts, gears, feed screws, and dies.

2. Custom Plastic Part

Subtractive manufacturing:
•  CNC machining:CNC machining (Computer Numerical Controlled machining) designates a process that uses a computer to control the trajectory of the machining tool. It employs many machining techniques, such as milling, drilling, and cutting.

• CNC Turning: This method uses a lathe to turn workpieces at high speeds and a tool with a special shape to remove layers of material from the workpiece. The workpiece shape is generally revolutionary. If the workpiece is long enough, an extra part is used to support the weight of the workpiece.

• CNC Milling: Milling is a process that uses a rotating tool to remove material from the fixed workpiece. There are two types of milling, horizontal and vertical milling. Used materials are:
   - CPVC
   - HDPE
   - LDPE
   - PC
   - PP
   - PVC
   - PS
   - PEI
   - PET
   - PMMA
   - PTFE
   - PS
   - Nylon

Formative manufacturing:
• Injection molding: In injection molding, molten plastic pellets are fed into a mold cavity under high pressure. After the plastic solidifies, the mold is opened to eject the part. Mold is made from hardened steel and contains the shape of the component to be molded. The Injection molding process is used for high and medium-volume production

• Liquid silicone rubber molding: It is a rubber molding process that injects silicone and color into a mold, which is heated to solidify, then the part gets ejected. The mold is made from hardened steel and contains the body of the part to be molded. The liquid silicone rubber molding process is used for high and medium-volume production. 

• Finishes: We offer the following finishes for custom-manufactured parts:
   - TexturesSurface finish (smooth or matte)
   - Inserting threads
   - Pad printing
   - Laser engraving
   - Welding
   - Clear coating 
   - Plating
   - Assembly
   - Testing

• Waterjet, laser, and plasma cutting: It is a set of cutting methods that use heat or water to cut through all the materials listed above any material to produce a part or product.