New Albany, IN – (October 5, 2007) Conforma Clad, a global leader of severe wear solutions, is sponsoring a webinar entitled "Advanced Wear Solutions for Power Generation" to Power Generation Executives.

Experts from Conforma Clad, a Kennametal company, will be hosting the event on October 24, 2007, from 10:30-11:15 p.m. EDT. The recommended audience for this webinar includes executives, managers, engineers and maintenance technicians in coal-fired power plants.  Visit www.conformaclad.com/WebinarRegistration for more details and to register.

Speakers for the webinar will be Chris Harley, Senior Applications Engineer and Alun Davies, Power Generation Market Manager. "Engineers and Maintenance crews are expected to identify, predict and solve potential outage causing equipment failures," said Harley.  "This webinar will address advanced materials and technologies that will help solve wear issues and prevent downtime due to equipment failures caused by wear."

Conforma Clad applies its cladding to components including: fans, burners, riffles, popcorn screens, shaft seal sleeves, and boiler tubes. Boiler tube failure is the number one source of forced outages in all coal fired power generation plants. One of the major causes for premature tube failure is excessive fireside boiler tube erosion caused by the impact, cutting action, and abrasive wear of fly ash entrained flue gases undercutting the area they strike. It is estimated, that these plants lose approximately 6% of their power generation annually, due to boiler tube leaks – 23% of which is due to erosive wear.

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