INDUSTRY NEWS
News from companies in the abrasives industry |
| SERVICE NETWORK INC announces new regional resentatives, a new heavy duty dressing unit, and new grinders. See the SNI website and click on news. |
| NEWS from Master Chemical: new office China and Asia, announcement of next executive officers, development of new clearing materials for shop floor, and more. See their News section |
| There's a new line of high performance bearing race OD grinders available from Service Network Inc, Worcester, MA. Click on "What's New" to get details.
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| Triangle Grinding Co. Inc. will move to a new location in New Haven, MI, October 1, 2003. For details visit their website
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| TOOLROOM GRINDING. Find guide to selecting grinding wheels for the tool room at Radiac’s website .
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| OSHA wants to reduce the current Personal Exposure Level for silica dust by 50% . OSHA announced its intentions in 1997 and has made the subject as top priority this year. A panel to discuss the issue is scheduled to meet in September. For current regulations visit SSPC’s topic webpage. For the latest news visit the website for OSHA and use the search engine to find information on silica.
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| VSM Avrasives O'Fallon,MO has named Engineered Solutions Company, Marysville, WA to its growing network of representatives in North America. Engineered Solutions serves clients in Western states including California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Idaho and Montana. |
| The Unified Abrasives Manufacturers Association(UAMA) is an organization growing out of the merger two years ago of the Grinding Wheel Institute, the Coated Abrasives Manufacturers Institute, Abrasives Grain Association, and the Diamond Wheel Manufacturers Association. UAMA recently met with representatives from the German Abrasives Organization and FEPA beginning dialogs that could bring more uniformity in international standards for grinding wheels. AES maintains a list of standards related to abrasive products. More details from AES. |
| The Society of Manufacturing Engineering will launch an event titled Precision Micromachining Technology and Applications scheduled for June 2003. Contact SME for details. www.sme.org
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| Consultants... AES maintains a list of consultants to assist manufacturing with production and training needs. Specialists in abrasives grains, bonded wheel and coated abrasives manufacture, production applications, safety, training and other topics are available. Contact AES for contact information.
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| The Industrial Diamond Association is now in high gear planning for Intertech 2003, an international conference on superabrasives technology scheduled for July 28-August 1,2003 in VanCouver, British Columbia. For details see their website
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| Landis Gardner has a new multi-process crankshaft grinder. The new versatile NC grinder uses a narrow CBN wheel for processing jornals, pins, thrust faces, post, flanges and oil seal diameter on one machine and a single setup. See the Landis website for details on the new Landis Crank Center ™. |
| AES now has reciprocal link with Metals.com . A website covering the wide range of sources in the metal industry.
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| Interested in Coatings? Will they have an impact of the abrasives industry? For details on a new bookthat addresses the issues contact AES
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| New wheels using zirconia/ceramic abrasives are available for right angles grinders from Rex Cut Products. For Contact AES for other details.
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| Norton Coated abrasives Discs have up 70% longer life according to company press release. Look under new products on their website
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| The UK abrasives market is estimated to be worth 315 Bristish pounds according to the latest report of AMA Research. For information send an e-mail to AMA Research
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| New Address for Bryant Grinder as it resumes business under the ownership of Vermont Machine Tool.
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