The superabrasives
Saint-Gobain on the SuperAbrasives market
Leader on the SuperAbrasives market, Saint-Gobain offers superior quality products and solutions worldwide, with a portfolio of well-known brands such as Winter and Norton.
Customers need products capable of producing forms, profiles, sizes and surface quality, but which also deliver a good level of productivity and the lowest manufacturing cost possible - points on which they are becoming increasingly demanding. This trend favours the use of SuperAbrasives rather than conventional abrasives.
Price is a determining factor in manufacturers' choice. Saint-Gobain meets its customers' application demands with customised tools offering the best unit cost efficiency.
Multiple applications
The applications for which SuperAbrasives are used include glass bevelling in the automotive and building industries, high precision crystal and ceramic component dressing, silicon slicing, tool blade sharpening, stone grinding and providing high quality finishing of sophisticated materials for the electronics industry, photovoltaic applications and semiconductors.
And major customers
Via its 14 production sites in North America, South America, Europe and Asia, Saint-Gobain Abrasives supplies customers such as Ford, BMW, GM, Delphi equipment manufacturers, TRW or Bosh, the manufacturers of cutting tools, Kennametal and Sandvik, as well as companies such as United Technologies, General Electric, Rolls Royce, MTU and SNECMA in the aeronautics industry, without forgetting manufacturers of bearings and linear guides such as SKF, Schaeffler, NTN, NSK or, in the electronics field, Freescale, Hitachi, ST Microelectronics, etc.
