Abrasive products made by 3M™ Company have been sold into both the industrial and home improvement markets since 1905. Since that time, premium quality cutting speed and long-life abrasive solutions are what customers have come to expect from 3M, and the Scotch-Brite™ Precision Surface Conditioning...
Interested in improving productivity, and reducing time and labour spend on steel removal? Luckily, cutting with aggressive and slow grinding applications is now a thing of the past. 3M has succeeded in developing microreplication technology, implemented in the latest model from their Cubitron™ Abrasives Series. This...
“In places where there is a lot of heavy rock and stone products moving through a shoot there is potential for significant wear on the surface of the plates,” explains Michael Rowe, BSC Product Manager for Abrasives and Sealants. Extending the life of equipment and avoiding unnecessary downtime, is an ongoing...
The engineers at 3M were the first to develop precision-shaped grain technology with the 3M Cubitron 982C series model, and now they’ve reinvented it by re-engineering their original precision-shaped grain to create a fibre disc that cuts 33% faster than the original grade disc, according to Nathan Bamford, Application Engineer from 3M’s Abrasive Systems Division. “Conventional ceramic abrasive grains tend to...
Mitigating the risks of metal corrosion ranks high on the list of maintenance concerns for manufacturing facilities. BSC Product Manager for Abrasives, Steve Keown, suggests maintenance and repair workers take careful consideration when assessing whether a product is safe to use on a particular metal component before implementing it. Steve has been collaborating with...
“When things go wrong, reach for Devcon,” this is the message that the team at ITW Polymers and Fluids – the manufacturer behind the Devcon range of abrasion resistant epoxy products – have for repair and maintenance specialists. “Devcon is a world leader in products for...
Pferd in German means ‘horse’ and the namesake German company that started from humble beginnings around 200 years ago by producing files for trimming horse hooves, has over the years grown to become a global brand in industrial abrasives. Pferd has been present in Australia for...
