About C. L. Smith Industrial
EXPERTS IN CUSTOM WEAR SOLUTIONS FOR OVER 40 YEARS
C.L. Smith Industrial Company (CLSI), a privately held, family owned, and veteran owned business is headquartered in Arnold, Missouri centrally located just 20 miles south of St. Louis. We serve our customers in an effective, cost-efficient manner and since 1977 our reputation has been built on quality, service, and customer satisfaction.
We specialize in providing wear solutions for heavy industrial applications found in grain processing, mining, steel, cement, power generation, pulp and paper, asphalt plus many other industries.
Our products and services improve the reliability and service life of equipment and systems which are subjected to wear damage caused by abrasion or corrosion. With material selection custom designed for the application we can choose from a wide variety of offerings including alumina ceramic, tungsten carbides, silicon carbides (nitride bonded and reaction bonded), chromium carbide overlay (CCO), basalt, UHMW, AR plate, wear compounds and refractories. With our full line of RTV and epoxy adhesives, CLS-4000 vacuum bonding technology, EPR (Engineered Pipe Repair) and ceramic lined rubber products the options to finding the right solution are unlimited.
HISTORY
Our journey began in the mid 1970's when Clarence Smith met an engineer with Coors, a producer of alumina ceramic components primarily used for body armor, labware and electrical insulators.
Coors was searching for other applications for this extremely hard and abrasive resistant material and encouraged Mr. Smith to market ceramics to his contacts in the steel and paint industries and recognized an even greater opportunity in coal fired power generation. Ushering in this pioneering use of ceramics lead Mr. Smith to form and incorporate C.L. Smith Industrial Company which quickly became one of the largest alumina ceramic distributors in the US. Following years of industry spin-offs and consolidations, CLSI remains a prominent force in the wear protection market with many industry alumni both as competitors and suppliers.
EXPERTS IN CUSTOM WEAR SOLUTIONS
Over the past 40 years C.L. Smith Industrial Company has supplied a wide variety of components lined with abrasion resistant materials including all sizes of pipe, cyclones, fan components, classifier cones, chutes, hoppers, burner nozzles, screw conveyors, troughs, mixing blades, drag conveyors, silos, and batch cones to name a few.
SHOP OR FIELD INSTALLATION
Our materials can be shop or field installed in assemblies and equipment you provide, or ones fabricated in our shop to your specifications and requirements.
Our large material inventory is also available for installation by you; however, some applications may require that we install the products to insure they provide the service life you expect.
Our Sales staff supports the United States and Canada, our Project Managers provide on-site verification, estimating and CAD support and our shop includes AWS D1.1 and ASME Section IX welders and experienced MSHA certified wear material installers.
OUR VISION STATEMENT SAYS IT ALL:
EVALUATION. ENGINEER. EXECUTE.
If you have any questions or wish to learn more about our products and services, please call our office at 1-800-764-0080.
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