Hardness is a important factor of slurry pump and dredge pump wear parts life.
Slurry pumps or dredge pumps are mostly used in condition with liquid contended solid, so if all other factors, like flow, head, speed are firmed, wear parts hardness will be the only one could decide the pump parts service life.
There are many ways to get hard material, and for us, we use high chrome white iron for most, bellow is the high chrome parts just done heat treatment process to get hardness no less than HRC 60.
If you need wear parts to match that hardness, just let us know, we will do the work for you.