Dura-Bar is takin’ it on the road! Come visit us at the DUG Eagle Ford Conference in San Antonio, TX to learn more about the advantages of Dura-Bar materials for oil and gas applications!  The prolific Eagle Ford shale ranks among the Permian Basin and the SCOOP/STACK for rising rig count. Along with over 400 exhibitors, this year’s DUG Eagle Ford conference includes presentations from region’s most active producers, hands-on technologyDura-Bar provided significant cost savings to an oil and gas supply chain partner when they switched the base material of their frac pump plungers. The selection of the base material was cricital, and comparisons to the original 1018 steel resulted in Dura-Bar ductile iron outperforming in several areas including machining, coating, and mechanical properties.Dura-Bar outperformed steel in a recent case study with a major air and gas compressor OEM. The per part cost for the compressor rotor was significantly reduced, with adjustments to machining speeds and depth of cut. Several additional performance advantages were also realized.