Buffing and polishing services perform smoothing operations that change a metal's surface appearance. These operations can be for aesthetic and/or functional purposes

Finishing and surface treatment services pretreat or finish the surfaces of manufactured components to meet roughness or surface condition requirements.

Surface finishing products and equipment are used to refine or roughen a surface to meet surface finish requirements, or to clean, strengthen or prepare the surface for additional processing.

Polishers and buffing machines are used to impart a fine (low Ra) surface finish on the exterior of a part. To improve surface finish, they use use abrasive grain slurries or compounds on buffs, bobs, cloth naps, laps, very fine grit nonwovens, and coated abrasives.

Honing, lapping and super-finishing equipment are used to improve surface finish or geometry to tight tolerances.

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

Finishing compounds are used to improve surface finish or flatness. They often consist of fine abrasives in slurry, bar, powder or paste forms.

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

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.

Coated abrasives are used for abrading, smoothing, or polishing

Specialty coating and finishing services perform specialized or proprietary coating and finishing processes

Surface preparation services clean, strengthen and prepare surfaces for additional processing and/or refine or roughen surfaces to meet finishing requirements. Cleaning processes include thermal cleaning, degreasing, spray washing, immersion washing, stripping or coating removal, and ultrasonic cleaning. Finishing processes include blasting, buffing, deburring, deflashing, polishing, electropolishing, honing, mass finishing, mirror finishing, oxygen cleaning, passivation, picking, sanding, and grinding

Ceramic manufacturing services for parts and assemblies made of ceramic or refractory materials. 

Plating services apply a thin coating of metal to the surface of a substrate in order to improve conductivity, prevent rust and corrosion, and facilitate soldering. There are two basic plating techniques: electroplating and electroless plating

Lining and wear protection services suppliers provide installation or application of wear protective liners, tile liners, spray on lining systems and/or high build coatings to protect an underlying surface from wear or erosion