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Lower Costs. Reduce Grinding Time: Grinding Stainless Steel with Ceramic Flap Discs

Yesterday we set up a simple grinding trial with one of our customers. The challenge: When grinding stainless steel, which is more cost effective? Zirconia or Ceramic abrasive flap discs.

Find Your Abrasive Solution

Built on 30+ years of abrasives industry experience the AFS Product Finder is your ideal solution when you don't know which product to choose. Select your application and machine to reveal your product recommendation.

Satin Finishing Machines: Which Should I Choose?

We have a range of readily available Satin Finishing Machines including the Finimaster PRO and the Finimaster KEYWAY. Ideal for satin finishing and graining applications.

Why Choose Ceramic Abrasives

Over the years we have posted many blogs about how to choose the best abrasive grain for your job. But why do we keep choosing ceramic abrasives?

Cibo Abrasives: premium abrasives manufacturer

Cibo Abrasives for everything about grinding, sanding and polishing placing them in the best position to design and manufacture the highest quality abrasive solutions. Here at AFS, we partnered with Cibo in 2002 to bring their abrasive products and solutions to the UK metal finishing industry.

Abrasive Finishing Systems Re-join Welding World Association

We are very happy to announce that we have re-joined the Welding World Association, and you can find us now in the latest edition.

Abrasive Finishing Systems Charity Partners

We are proud at AFS to support a wide range of charity partners selected by our staff. From helping our local communities with end of life care, or providing medicine to the hardest to reach places - each charity listed below was carefully chosen by us.

Stainless Steel Finishing: Satin and Mirror Kits

When finishing stainless steel most fabricators are either aiming for a satin or mirror finish. Here you will find advice over which finish to choose, then what you will need to achieve this on your own.

AFS Launch New Garboli MIRROR Tube Polishing Machines

Tube Polishing Machines

There is a wide range of tube polishing machines or tube polishers on the market to fit the many needs of the tube fabrication industry. Tight radius bends, wide curves, or simple long lengths. But achieving a consistent high quality finish is possible when you match the right machine to your process.

Cibo Ceramics: The Answer to Life the Universe and Everything?

Abrasive Technology continues to move on. As the new Cibo Ceramics abrasive range give the power of premium performance for the metal fabricator on a wide range of metals; now premium performance becomes a matter of simplicity.

Abrasive Finishing Systems to exhibit at Mach 2016

This will be our sixth visit to the Mach Exhibition for Abrasive Finishing Systems. And this year we have gone all out to be even bigger and better. On our largest ever stand we will have two distinct foci: