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One of our primary goals is helping our customers to meet their goals by improving processes and cutting costs. Recently, we helped one of our customers, a large food service distributor, solve a problem involving the removal and blending of welds and smoothing a final finish on one of their stainless steel food processing vessels. They had been using large quantities of two separate ½" coated abrasive belts, resulting in high material and labor costs. We were successful in introducing them to a resin mounted point to remove the weld more efficiently, along with a rubber mounted point for the final finish. The change to Western Abrasives resulted in a substantial cost savings. The savings came from using fewer materials, less operator time changing belts and less grinding time which resulted in an improved final finish. The change to Western Abrasives resulted in a substantial cost savings. The savings came from using fewer materials, less operator time changing belts along with cutting time to accomplish an improved final finish.

From the Western Abrasives research and development laboratory comes our latest development in Fiber Mounted Points, the 'Fiber Max.' The results from our recently completed field testing indicate much faster removal with the expected finish of a Fiber abrasive. The 'Fiber Max' fills the gap between the softer resin and harder standard fiber mounted point, a problem area in the industry for quite some time. The 'Fiber Max' is now available. Contact us with your specific application and we will build one for you.