Saint-Gobain Abrasives

United States

For sawing, drilling and cutting building materials. Our unique Infiltrated High Density technology (i-HD™) combined with our patented diamond blade laser welding process is the biggest breakthrough in diamond tools this century providing our customers with unrivalled performance, increased safety, lower energy manufacturing and a wider choice of segment design.

Manufactured using unique abrasive grains coated to paper, cloth, film, vulcanised fibre or synthetic backing, converted into different shapes such as belts, rolls, discs, sheets. For applications including heavy-to-medium material removal, fine finishing, and light blending and polishing.

Abrasive grains joined with an organic or vitrified bond molded into various shapes including grinding and cut-off wheels with or without reinforcements, segments, mounted points, dressing sticks and sharpening stones. Used for a variety of applications from cutting to rough and high precision grinding including cylindrical outer diameter and inner diameter grinding, dimensioning and sharpening.

The Norton Clipper brand offers high performance machinery including masonry saws, floor saws, power trowels, floor grinders, core drills and tile saws for cutting stone, masonry, tile and all other building materials.

An open web synthetic fibre and abrasive structure compressed into various shapes for stripping coatings, scale, rust, flashings and adhesives as well as surface de-burring and finishing applications. Our Clean Bond Technology enables easy surface blending and cleaning in fewer steps, improved surface finish and without smearing.

Grinding tools manufactured using diamond and cubic boron nitride (cBN) Super Abrasive materials. The unique properties and extreme hardness of diamond and cBN allow for exceptionally consistent and repeatable grinding output in industries where high precision is required; automotive engine, transmission and bearing components, high hardness cutting tools for machining and oil and gas exploration, semiconductor chips and other electronic devices, and automotive and architectural glass processing. Diamond truing & dressing tools generate precise forms on grinding wheels within a few microns.