Grinders and grinding machines use an abrasive that is bonded to a wheel, belt or disc to remove material and improve surface finish

Bonded abrasives consist of conventional abrasive grains held together in a matrix of glass, resin, rubber or other binders. This classification includes grinding wheels, cut-off wheels, honing stones, mounted points and grinding segments. 

Abrasives and abrasive products are used to remove surface materials such as metal, ceramics, glass, plastics, and paint. Abrasives and abrasive products include discs, belts, blast machines and sandblasters, as well as sheets, rolls, and hand pads

Grinding wheels are used for metal removal, dimensioning, and finishing. They consist of an integral shank, pin, shaft, or mandrel that drives a mounted wheel or blades

Tool grinding services manufacture, recondition, regrind, and provide special profiling for cutting and machining tools

Precision grinding services perform operations such as centerless grinding, creep feed grinding, double-disc grinding, internal grinding, external grinding, jig grinding, surface grinding, and thread grinding

Centerless grinding services perform a machining operation in which an abrasive wheel grinds metal from a bar surface while a regulating wheel forces the bar against the grinding wheel

Diamond tools and wheel dressers are used to condition, true and dress grinding wheels. Dressing is the process of re-sharpening the tiny cutting edges on a grinding wheel’s surface

Materials processing services providers manufacture mechanically or thermally process metals, ceramics, polymers, glasses or other materials on a contract basis

Specialty grinding and finishing machines include specialized equipment for specific applications such as thread grinding, substrate planarization and optics manufacturing

Surface grinding segments are bonded abrasive structures that can be assembled on a special form to create a large wheel for flat surface grinding

Ball milling and grinding media are designed for ball milling and the grinding down of bulk, powder or granular materials into finer powder forms or disperse pigments in a resin or coating

Glass materials have a random, liquid like (non-crystalline) molecular structure. They are heated to a temperature sufficient to produce a completely fused melt

Superabrasives and diamond wheels consist of grinding wheels, abrasive saw blades, wheel dressers, single point tools and other products utilizing diamond or cubic boron nitride (CBN) abrasive grain

Optical manufacturing services design, fabricate, finish and test optical components and optical elements.