Abrasives are very hard materials that are used to shape or finish workpieces through friction. They can be natural minerals or synthetic materials like silicon carbide or diamond. Abrasives are commonly found in bonded, coated, or loose forms and are used in grinding, sanding, polishing, drilling, and cutting applications in both industrial settings and everyday use. Super abrasives like diamond are especially hard and effective for precision applications. Abrasives have many other industrial uses beyond finishing workpieces, such as in valves, needles, cables, and more.

1. A Type Of Hard Material
ABRASIVES

2. What is Abrasive?
An abrasive is a type of very hard material and it can be used in many different ways at
home, in industry, and in technology.
Abrasives are used to finish or shape a work piece.
Rubbing the abrasive on the workpiece leads to part of the workpiece being worn away.
When finishing a material it is often thought of as a means to polish the material to gain a
smooth surface or even reflective surface; however some finishes require roughening as in
beaded, matte or satin finishes.

3. Abrasion Mechanism
Different kinds of abrasives are made for different jobs. Generally abrasives can be
classified into synthetic or natural.
Natural abrasives are minerals or rocks of great hardness, which are born in the earth’s
crust and are extracted and processed to manufacture abrasive tools. They are used to give
shape or finish to a piece, or other materials of lesser hardness, through friction or rubbing.
Synthetic abrasives, on the other hand, are the product of considerable processing of raw
materials or chemical precursors; they include silicon carbide, synthetic diamond, and
alumina (a synthetic form of corundum).

4. Abrasion Mechanism
Both synthetic and natural Abrasives can be found in a wide variety of shapes, they
are often coated or bonded abrasives including grinding wheels, blocks, discs, belts,
rods, loose grain and sheets.

5. Bonded Abrasives
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Coated Abrasives
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Super Abrasives
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6. 01 Bonded
Abrasives

7. Bonded Abrasives are an abrasive
material contained within a matrix.
Bonded Abrasives are required to
be dressed after they are used. Visit
our Abrasives section to know
more about Bonded Abrasives.

8. 02 Coated
Abrasives

9. Coated Abrasives are also minerals that
are used in the same way as bonded
abrasives. A coated abrasive is an
abrasive fixed on to a form of backing
material like paper, metal, rubber, resin,
cloth and polyester. Sandpaper is a best
example of coated abrasive. Visit our
Abrasives section to know more about
Coated Abrasives

10. 03
Super
Abrasives

11. Super Abrasives are one of a group of
relatively expensive but effective
materials possessing superior hardness
and abrasion resistance. Super Abrasives
include cubic boron nitride (CBN) and
diamond. Super Abrasives have been
developed to meet the needs of modern
industry.

12. Abrasives – Applications
● Honing
● Buffing ● Drilling
● Grinding ● Sanding ● Polishing

13. Abrasives – Applications
● Sharpening
● Cutting

14. OTHER USES

15. Further abrasives can also be used
for various applications which
include:
● It can be used as control cables in bicycle brakes, car parking brakes & chokes, etc
● Abrasives are used in flexible steel hoses like shower hoses, armored cables, etc
● It is used in collets for chucks
● Abrasives are used in diesel injection needles
● It is used in valve stems such as internal combustion engine valves
● It is used in axle shafts
● Abrasives are used in hypodermic needles in medical, dental & veterinary
● It is used in tungsten rod for contact points
● It is used in precious metal contact points
● It is used in tungsten wire electrodes for lamp bulbs
● Abrasives are used in trigger components for firearms
● It is sprag bar for sprag clutches in automotive transmissions, elevators, helicopter
transmissions
● It is used in precious tubes in solar panels, soldering irons, etc.

16. Further abrasives can also be used
for various applications which
include:
● It is used in spark plug electrodes
● It is used in copper rod for soldering guns
● It is used in piston rings
● It is used in cutting expensive metals
● It is used in laminated magnetic cores like transformer cores
● It is used in Ferrite Rods for Magnets
● It is used in high speed steel (twist drills, etc.)
● It is used in sewing needles
● It is used in wafering in various materials
● It is used in capillary tubes metal and glass
● It is used in tubing for extendable telescopic aerials
● It is used in thin walled tubes in aircraft, helicopters

17. Abrasives In UAE
Euroblast middle east llc do authorized Abrasive recycling, Garnet recycling and Grit recycling.
Visit Euroblast Abrasives section to know more about abrasives in UAE.

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