Duplex stainless steels are increasingly applied in an extended range of plant construction and chemical and power station technology. Combined strain of corrosion and hydroabrasion as in flue gas desulphurisation plants, in off- and on-shore industry or waste water treatment facilities meet the limits of these materials. The Plasma-Two-Powder-Cladding (PZPA) enables to produce components being resistant to this combined strain. In this process the matrix metal and the hardmaterial powders are fed to the burner by separately controllable inlets. Thus, protective layers being resistant against complex strain, where highly wear resistant hardmaterials (WC-W₂C) are embedded in a relative ductile corrosion resistant matrix (duplex) are achievable. In this report the process and material possibilities of how to influence the microstructure of duplex protective layers systematically by embedding hardmaterials according to improved wear resistance and its influence on the corrosion resistance will be demonstrated.