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Manufacturing

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Edmonton

Wear Piping, Fixed Plant

Chilca

Mill Liners

Innisfall

Industrials, Rail, Energy

Mont Joli

Mill Liners

Ipswich

Energy, Defence, Industrials

Lima

Composite, Mill Liners

Coimbatore

Mill Liners, Industrials

Xuzhou

Crawler, GET, Mill Liners, Rail Spares, Fixed Plant Fabrication

Merlimau

Mill Liners

Bassendean

Fixed Plant

Wundowie

Fixed Plant, Industrials

Mont Thorney

Energy, Defence, Industrials

Wodonga

Mill Liner

Manufacturing Capabilities

Bradken is one of the leading ferrous-casting companies in the world. We work with a variety of cast materials including speciality irons, alloy steels and stainless steel and have the capability to produce castings up to and over 30,000 kilograms or 65,000 pounds.
Bradken has proven design and engineering expertise.  This, combined with a deep understanding of the manufacturing process, enables us to create a range of innovative and reliable products to support the global mining industry.  Our geographical diversity underpins our position as a world-class, cost-effective, high-quality foundry and heavy engineering company.
Bradken’s manufacturing facilities employ the latest technologies in product development, design, tooling manufacture, casting processes, robotics, machining and assembly.
Bradken has a broad wealth of technical expertise in a wide range of alloys and complex fabrication techniques, in addition to operational and field experience and ongoing dedicated research into material composition.
From engineered concept to finished product Bradken provides value for our customers by making highly engineered, complex, sand molded steel castings in an extensive range of cast steels.
Our casting capabilities include:
  • Castings up to and over 30,000 kilograms or 65,000 pounds
  • Steel castings, stainless steel castings (including duplex stainless steel), iron-chromium-nickel-molybdenum corrosion resistant and specialty irons
  • Argon Oxygen Decarburisation (AOD) – combining higher metallic yields with lower material costs allowing greater accuracy in chemistry control for carbon and rapid desulfurisation and resulting in a cleaner metal
  • CNC pattern making (wood, foam, aluminium and urethane)
  • Solidification modelling – cutting edge foundry modeling software ensuring highest quality through the 1st article process
  • Fabrication/weldments to casting and forging to casting conversions
  • Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) – visual, liquid penetrant, magnetic particle, ultrasonic, X-Ray (including Linatron capabilities up to 22″ section thickness)
  • Value added services – rough and finish machining, hydro-testing, light fabrication and assembly
  • Project management for complex jobs
A global network and extensive capacity ensures security of supply now and into the future.

Bassendean

Location: Bassendean, Perth, Western Australia

Site type : Fabrication workshop

Size: 95,00 Sq metres with a further 10,000 Sq meters of space available if workload requires it

Products: Bi-Metallic chromewhite iron casting, Chrome carbide overlay plate, Chromewhite iron casting & Ceramics in Rubber matrix

Solution: The largest liner manufacturer and rotable chute refurbished in WA.

Coimbatore

Location: Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India

Site type : Induction

Capacity : 30,000 MT per annum

Size: 45.93 acrs with 25 acrs used up area

Products: SAG Mill Liners, Ball Mill Liners, Grate, Pulp lifter, Digging Shoe, Bull nose castings

Solution: Chrome Moly- White Iron Specialist

Edmonton

Location: Edmonton, Canada

Site type : Fabrication Workshop

Capacity : 30,000 MT per annum

Size: 23,000 sq meters

Products: CWI, Carbon Steel, CCO, Rubber lined spools

Process: Induction bending, Maintenance, Barrel Machining, Coupon Prep, Stud welding and Robot PTAW Hardfacing

Solution: Our 52,000 SQFT pipe fabrication shop is capable of fabricating both carbon steel and CCO spools.

Innisfail

Location: Innisfail, Queensland, Australia

Site type : Fabrication Workshop

Products: Cane Bins, Automatic Bin Coupling Devices, Railway Products, Wheel and Axle Sets, Loco Components, Hammer Tip & Wear Block Solutions, Mill Components

Solution: Three Distinct Operations-Engineering, Fabrication and Wear Block Solutions

Ipswich

Location: Ipswich, Queensland, Australia

Site type : Fabrication Workshop

Size: 5 acrs

Products: Proserpine 10t Cane Bin Chassis, Vale reclaimer Buckets, RTIO Impact Transport Frames, Hitachi EH5000AC-3 ULW Truck Trays, Whitehaven EX8000 Bucket Refurb, Callide EX5600 Whitehaven EX3600 Bucket Refurbs, Rotary Coal Breakers, Face Shovels

Merlimau

Location: Merlimau, Melaka Malaysia

Site type : Induction

Capacity : 10,080 MT per annum

Size: 56,000 sqm with 19, 875 sqm used up ares

Products: SAG Mill Liners, Ball Mill Liners, Grates, Pulp lifter, Crusher parts, Jaws and Cones, Apron feeders, Screen plates etc

Material: Dura alloy, Dura cast, 9K, Ni-Hard, Manganese, A74

Solution: Site with facilities to produce manganese products

Lima

Location: Lima, Peru

Site type : Foundry

Capacity : 400 tonnes with rubber processing capacity (with steel inserts generally this will be about 1,500-2,000 Tons of composite weight).

Size: 6,750 sq. meter

Products: Composite mill liners up to 2 tonnes for AG, SAG mills, fixed plant solutions

Solution: Manufacturing and engineering support services

Chilca

Location: Chilca, Peru

Site type : Foundry

Capacity : 20,000 metric tonnes annually

Size: 62,000 sq. meter with built up of facilities of 19,000 Sq. meter

Products: Steel mill liners up to 40’ or 12m. Single Piece 7,000 Kg Casting

Solution: Manufacturing and engineering support services

Wodonga

Location: Wodonga, Victoria, Australia

Site type : Foundry (Electric arc furnace)

Capacity : 5000 MT per Annum

Size: 36,000 Sq. meter

Products: GET, Rail and Industrial products

Material: Alloy Steels

Solution: Greensand and hardsand molding process

Wundowie

Location: Wundowie, Western Australia

Site type : Foundry (Induction)

Capacity : 5,500 T per Annum

Products: White Iron, Grey Iron, Wear billets and liner plates, Wear buttons and choc blocks, Ni-hard

Xuzhou, China

Location: Xuzhou, China

Site type : Foundry (Electric arc AOD furnace)

Capacity : 20,000 tone per annum

Size: 40 acres

Products: Steel castings, Crawler Shoes GET, Fabrication parts: Buckets. Mill Liners, Wear Plates

Material: Alloy Steels---CS, ML, GET. Manganese Steel-Crawler Shoes, Dura alloy and Dura cast-Mill Liners

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