Free Sample Testing
Process development, training and detailed technical support services are offered in our newly refurbished and fully equipped Technical Center.
Process Development
We regularly assist customers by developing new products and processes, utilizing the very latest in precision flat lapping technology. Customers' samples are evaluated, free-of-charge. Comprehensive reports are issued covering all aspects of the process, including details of abrasive, lapping plate, workholding, inspection, cleaning and the likely consumable costs involved.
Here are some of the materials we are able to process
Alloys
Alumina
Aluminum
Aluminum Nitride
Anodized Aluminum
Beryllium Copper
Bone
Boron Carbide
Brass
Bronze
Carbon
Carbon Fiber
Cast iron
Ceramic
Chrome Plate
Cobalt Chrome
Compact Disc
Concrete Cement
Copper
Epoxy Resin
Ferrite
Fiber Optic
Film Guide
Gallium Arsenide
Germanium
Glass
Gold
Graphite
Inconel (Cobalt/Nickel)
Internal Seal
Keronite (ceramic)
Molybdenum
Mold insert or cavity
Neumonic Steel
Nickel
Piston Rings
Plastic
Quartz
Sapphire
Silicon
Silicon Aluminum Alloy
Silicon Carbide
Sintered Materials
Spherical valve
Stainless steel
Steel
Steel (Hard)
Titanium
Tool Steel
Toughened Steel
Tungsten carbide
Tungsten Copper
Vulcanized Fiber
Zinc Selenide
Zirconate (Lead) Titanate
All processed samples are returned with detailed technical process reports including detailed surface finishing measurements, free of charge.