Finishing Equipment

POLIFAN-CURVE flap discs from PFERD INC bring advantages to rough and finish grinding applications. A patented, proprietary design to PFERD, POLIFAN-CURVE offers a fast, productive and economical way to go from rough grinding to smooth finishing in a single step, according to the company.

Suhner introduces the Rotomax flexible-shaft machine, a unique unit with interchangeable hand pieces that allow a user the freedom to perform a variety of machining operations with a single machine. The Suhner Rotomax functions as an angle grinder, straight grinder, drum polisher, belt sander, tube polisher or die grinder, simply by changing the hand piece.

End finishing tools from Leistritz offer an efficient approach to machining tube ends, shafts and housings. Arranging the insert holders to form a contour, which is transferred to the workpiece, forms the desired cut geometry.

Walter Surface Technologies announced the launch of the new Surfox Wand, compatible with the Surfox 304 MIG and TIG weld cleaning system. The new Surfox Wand was designed with the end user in mind.

PFERD Inc. has announced a new linear finishing set for applications including rough stock removal, surface conditioning and consistent, high-quality cosmetic finishing on all metals and hardwoods. The set includes PFERD’s innovative 5 in. diameter POLINOX non-woven PNZ finishing drum, featuring interleaved layers of non-woven material and abrasive cloth.

When a major fortune 500 aerospace company, who had built their reputation on being “dependable ,“ selected Guyson to design and build a custom grit blaster for batch processing gas turbine blades; its engineering team realized that this was something truly unique. The customer was involved throughout the design of the system and was impressed with how Guyson was able to completely blast the blades in one operation.

Tech-Etch, Plymouth, Mass., which specializes in the etching, forming, heat treating and finishing of components made from metals with superior spring characteristics, offers prototypes delivered in 5 days.