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HARDMETAL was born as an alternative for the necessity of the classic and standard industries regarding wear resistant materials.

Our first vocation as a company is the wear resistant materials.

Through the past of the years we have added others aspects to our work’s offer to be more efficient with our client’s requirements.

Engineering and Consulting Focus to the Heavy Industry

Engineering and Consulting Focus to the Heavy Industry

We are a company focused on engineering with an elevated techno-commercial component. We focus all our activity in industry consulting and in the importation and exportation of industrial equipment, such as the inventory parts of practically all market brands. Included in our product catalogue are iron and steel cast parts, designed to resist the wearing due to abrasion and corrosion (manganese steel, Ni-Hard, Nickel and Chromium steels, fireproof, titanium, etc.).

Our engineering model is strongly based to the re-engineering and to the study of the base of the problems. We are aware that we cannot compete with the equipment manufacturers as these have a particular “Know-how”.

Nevertheless, this “know-how” is aimed at the equipment’s efficacy, which leaves a margin of progress within the product’s efficiency.

It is in this interval where HARDMETAL intervenes and acts. We study every equipment, each problem and provide the best solutions, when they exist.

HARDMETAL is also involved in the metallurgical area. However, in this sector we work based on our client’s project, leading to us to compete from the beginning with other big companies. All the stages of manufacture and construction are supervised by ours experts and follow our strict quality patterns.



Wear Resistant Materials

Wear Resistant Materials

An area that has progressed immensely is the substitution of machine’s components or parts due to wearing. This wear can be caused by friction, abrasion, and physic or chemistry erosion.

The constant replacement for these parts results in the need to shutdown the equipments for its intervention. This necessity imply an important logistic effort regarding the placing of the purchase orders while considering lead times, in order to guarantee a minimum stock inventory and to subside further problems. In other words, having a strict and well defined inspection program will avoid unexpected situations.

Our job is to ease these situations by doing engineering studies and proposing solutions that aim to increase the parts and equipments’ service life.

Oil & Gas Treatment

Oil & Gas Treatment

Industrial installations found in difficult-access locations live with constant oil supply problems. Lead times for these purchase orders are elevated and companies’ stocks tend to be high. At the same time, there is the problem regarding used oil storage. What to do about this issue?

Our job is aimed to increase the oil’s service life by pushing it to its limit. To do this, we proceeded to define a rigorous method. We prepare installations to make the oil consumption profitable, which in some cases can have durations of n times the predefined service life. At the end, when the oil is no longer suitable for use, we process and subject it through an energetic valorisation process.

Our company also works with diesel. Diesel contamination by water, wood chip, sawdust, etc., can affect the well function of machinery and reduce diesel pump’s service life. The maintenance for these damaged equipments is done during unexpected shutdowns that bring considerable producing costs. These shutdowns can be avoided by good combustible treatment.

HARDMETAL’s system ends these problems. With our services, a clean and decontaminated diesel is injected to the motor, extending its service life and running time.


Conveyor Belt

Conveyor Belt

Regarding Conveyor belts, our company handles two fronts. The first consists on designing, building and installing the conveyor belt. The second is focused providing maintenance and repairing the belt “in situ”.

In order to obtain the finest and strongest installation possible, we use the best techniques of design. We work with all types of conveyor belts: including those with or without metallic fabric.

Our specialists always supervise the installation of the conveyor belts, guaranteeing that the unions and materials will be at their best possible quality. To achieve this, we work with our own special tools.

Electrical and Electronic Automation

Electrical and Electronic Automation

Due to the current importance of automation and industrial projects, HARDMETAL managed to broaden its activities into the electronic and industrial automation areas.

Our aim is to develop equipments that are able to answers all of our client’s demands. The programming is performed under the project’s directives and installation’s objectives.


Environmental Protection

Environmental Protection

This area is strongly linked to oil & gas treatment, and due to its peculiarities, we have proceeded to highlight it.

Nowadays, environmental protection is a main priority in the industrial sector. Various countries have proceeded to create laws and ordinances to avoid the expansion of their ecological footprint.

Therefore, we have developed and implemented different projects that aim for increase the profitability of the used resources, while controlling and reducing the environmental footprint cause by companies. Sometimes, with a small investment, companies can get considerable improvements.

Between our projects we have:

  • Hydrocarbon collection and treatment systems.
  • Sprinkling systems to eliminated the dust in mines and quarries.
  • Radiologic studies and process and equipment implementation where risks of exposition exist due to equipment or resources radiation.
  • ETA’s and ETAR’s installation. We use compact systems with moving unities to produce a fast and efficient installation.
  • Installation of vacuum and treatment systems for dust and industrial gases emissions.
  • Other works at the environmental protection area.


Various Equipments

Various Equipments

Throughout our company’s history, HARDMETAL has worked in building strong relations with the objective of providing the best solution to our clients’ needs. We are proud to be a dynamic company always open to new challenges. This has created the unexpectedly gratifying opportunity of being a part of our clients’ and allies’ memories.

When one of our clients is in need, we have the opportunity to provide our experience and dedication.