Abrasive or Media Selection

 

Surface finishing chips and compounds

These are the perfect basis for all surface finishing processes. They ideally combine environmental aspects with high precision and quality of process technology.

We are committed to continuous improvement of our products and processes in our laboratories and test centres. By our doing so, you have the assurance of being at the forefront of surface finishing technology. As a result, we are always developing new opportunities in choosing the correct application for your surface finishing process.

Effective checking of incoming raw materials and finished products to DIN EN ISO 9001 standards ensures the high quality of our consumables.

Regardless of whether standard products or special products are used, you can be sure that environmental protection accompanies your surface finishing operations with each process.

Quality of Supply

In our central storage facility and in the storage facilities of our subsidiaries worldwide, we are continuously supplying around 8,000 types of high quality consumables.

 


4 criteria:

Process

  • Compressed air: dry process, wet process
  • Airless system

Treatment

  • Shot peening
  • Precoating preparation (Roughness: Ra)
  • Finishing (appearance)
  • Cleaning
  • Deburring
  • Stripping
  • Contaminant removal, etc.

 

 


Parts to be treated

  • Shape, weight, hardness
  • Geometry, tolerances

Production requirement

  • Throughput
  • Quality level

Rösler offers 7 families of abrasives and products:

  1. Aluminium oxide
  2. Glass beads
  3. Ceramic beads
  4. Quartz and silica
  5. Plastic media
  6. Starch blast media
  7. Metallic shot

 

The families (1), (2), (3) and (5) can be used for dry and wet processes (air blasting).
Quartz and silica (4) are reserved for wet sand blasting operations (not useable for the dry process)
Vegetal media (6) is used for the dry process (pressure).
The families (3) and (7) can be used both in airless and air blasting (dry process)

 

All abrasives or products currently available in the market are distributed by Rösler.
A supply department and dedicated work offers the following services: treatment of unit parts, preproduction, etc.