Carborundum Abrasives' New Nylon Surface Finishing Wheels Lower Finishing Cost by up to 30 Percent.Business Editors WORCESTER, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 25, 2003 In on-the-job tests deburring pipe threads, radiusing turbine blades, blending welds, finishing saw blades and cleaning steel castings Steel casting is a manufacturing process in which molten metal is poured into a mold, allowed to solidify within the mold, and then the mold is broken and the solid piece is taken out. , the new more aggressive Fibratex(R) non-woven wheels last up to 20% longer than competitive wheels and proved to lower total finishing cost by up to 30%. The new line of Carborundum Fibratex CFX CFX Command Field Exercise CFX Combined Field Exercise CFX Congregationum Fratrorum Xaverianorum (Latin: Congregation of Xaverian Brothers (Roman Catholic religious order) CFX China France Express CFX Compact Form Factor unified wheels are available in a broad range of densities, grits grits coarsely ground hominy served in traditional Southern breakfast. [Am. Culture: Misc.] See : Southern States and thicknesses for deburring, polishing, cleaning and finishing of metals and composites. Unified wheels are formed by compressing and bonding layers of non-woven synthetic web material together to create an abrasive wheel. Unified wheels are used on portable, bench and other fixed base grinders used in production and maintenance operations. Carborundum CFX wheels are available with fine, medium, coarse and extra coarse aluminum oxide aluminum oxide: see alumina. and silicon carbide silicon carbide, chemical compound, SiC, that forms extremely hard, dark, iridescent crystals that are insoluble in water and other common solvents. Widely used as an abrasive, it is marketed under such familiar trade names as Carborundum and Crystolon. abrasive grains. Seven densities, from 2-9, are available for light cleaning and finishing of soft metals like aluminum and copper to very aggressive blending of welds and heavy deburring of stainless steel stainless steel: see steel. stainless steel Any of a family of alloy steels usually containing 10–30% chromium. The presence of chromium, together with low carbon content, gives remarkable resistance to corrosion and heat. and advanced alloys. Diameters offered are 1 to 12 inches in widths of 1/8 to 1 inch. Carborundum is a brand of Saint-Gobain Abrasives, a division of Compagnie de Saint-Gobain. Saint-Gobain, one of the top 100 industrial companies in the world, is a leading producer of abrasives, building materials Building materials used in the construction industry to create . These categories of materials and products are used by and construction project managers to specify the materials and methods used for . , flat glass, insulation, reinforcements, packaging, pipe, ceramics and high-performance plastics. Headquartered in Paris, Saint-Gobain's annual sales approximate $28.6 billion. The company has more than 173,000 employees in 47 countries. In the U.S. and Canada, Saint-Gobain employs about 26,700 people, and has 195 manufacturing locations. Its total U.S. and Canada sales in 2002 were $6.4 billion. Saint-Gobain's web site is www.saint-gobain.com. The Carborundum web site is www.carborundumabrasives.com. |
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