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2 Today’s Industrial Products & Solutions • September 2011

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IN EVERY ISSUE26 Product Focus

32 Advertiser Index

Contents

6 Non-WovenAbrasivesExpandRightAngleGrindingPossibilities.

14 ExtremeEnvironments NoProblem for Ruggedized TUFF™Air Sampling Pumps fromCasella

18 RebuildingGround Zero

20 Lincoln ElectricWelding Experts to Speak at 14th AnnualAluminumWeldingConference

In this Issue

ONTHECOVER :cover provided byNorton Abrasives

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In the abrasives market, right an-gle grinders have traditionally beenused in conjunction with grindingwheels, fiber discs, wire brushes,

and flap discs. Over the last severalyears, non-woven abrasives have en-

tered the field, replacing traditionalcoated abrasives as a faster and more

cost effective method of stripping, debur-ring, blending, prepping and finishing.

What are non-woven abrasives? They have three compo-nents: synthetic fiber mesh, quality abrasives, and resin. The density


Non-WovenAbrasives

Expand RightAngle GrindingPossibilities.

New Norton Vortex Rapid Finishis ideal for removing light welds

and blending stainless steel

New NortonBlaze RapidStrip disc

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other abrasive products. To understand thedifferences among types of non-woven rightangle products, a simple review can provehelpful:

Stripping wheels are quite recognizable

of the mesh and the size and type of theabrasive used, provides an array of combi-nations that give non-woven right angleproducts not only a great deal of versatilitybut also unique attributes not available in

by their very coarse, open mesh structure.They are ideal for stripping paint and coat-ings, without affecting the base metal. Theopen structure resists loading, enabling itto strip even the gummiest of substanceslike seam sealer and adhesives.

Norton’s new Blaze Rapid Strip wheelis an upgraded version of the traditionalblack stripping product. Unlike its blacksilicon carbide counterpart, Blaze RapidStrip uses ceramic alumina grain.

This makes it faster cutting and longerlasting, a better choice for strippingrough rust and scale off of metal partswhile still being flexible enough to avoidgouging the base material. This is avery versatile product for stripping,cleaning, and blending.

Finishing wheels have a much tighterweave, making for a firm product excel-lently suited for removing light welds,deburring rough metal edges, andblending/cleaning all metal surfaces.The abrasive grain of choice for mostmetalworking operations is aluminum

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oxide, which is generally offered inmedium and fine grit for metal removaland deburring. For light pressure fin-ishing operations, a very fine siliconcarbide is generally recommended.

Recently, a new high performanceengineered aluminum oxide grain (Nor-ton Vortex) was introduced. This grainhas a unique feature in that it is alarger grain built out of many small

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abrasive grains (industry term is “ag-glomerate”). This revolutionary tech-nology allows for an aggressive cutand fast stock removal, while provid-ing a fine finish. The cooler cuttinggrain provides twice the wheel lifeover conventional aluminum oxide.

The last product in the non-wovenright angle family is a prepping wheel.You will notice the more open weave ofthe non-woven material. This may befamiliar to most users as it was the orig-inal structure of most non-woven prod-ucts. It is an excellent product for surfacepreparation, cleaning, and finishing. Theprepping wheel is available in a de-pressed center wheel configuration witha fiberglass back-up pad or, when moreconformability is needed, as a disc thatattaches to a rubber back up pad.

The prepping discs are also availablein the unique AVOS design, which al-lows the operator to view the surface ofthe material while working, in order tomore accurately gauge the operation,

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resulting in less rework.Non-woven abrasives for the right

angle grinder offer the operator awhole new set of options for stripping,light stock removal, blending, debur-

ring, cleaning, and finishing. Benefitsinclude the following:• Less undercutting and gouging• Multiple operations can be donewith one product, while reducing the

number of steps• Better control of the surfacefinish parameters

• Elimination of loading withsoft materials

• Less vibration for moreoperator comfort

• Elimination of safety issues thatcan occur with wire brushes anddislodged wiresMost products in the non-woven cat-

egory fit 4-½” – 7” right angle grindersand are available in a plain 7/8” hole ora 5/8-11” discard mount. �

Mr. David Long is the Director ofMarketing & Strategy for Norton Abra-sives, 1 New Bond Street, MS 301-403,Worcester, MA 01606, 508-795-4435,www.nortonindustrial.com/metalfab/muscle.aspx, [email protected]. Note: Products mentioned inthis article will be on display and alsobe in live cutting demonstrations atFABTECH 2011, Booth #6500.

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Extreme environments in the construction, mining, petrochemical andmany other industries can expose workers to dangerous airborne par-ticulates and vapors, such as lead, mold or asbestos, or a variety of or-ganic or synthetic chemicals.Sample pumps must be accurate and rugged to survive inall kinds of work environments while reliably collecting physical samples for further analysis.Casella CEL offers its TUFF™ line of personal air sampling pumps that feature a sealed casewith over-molding that protects it from damaging moisture, extreme temperatures, solvents,and impact.

With a flow range from 5 ml/min to 4.5 l/min, Casella TUFF pumps are ideal for a widerange of occupational health and safety applications from simple abatement sampling to more

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ExtremeEnvironmentsNo Problemfor Ruggedized TUFF™ AirSampling Pumps from Casella

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specialized industrial hygiene monitoringof dusts, fumes and gases. All pumps incor-porate a proven efficient double-acting di-aphragm mechanism with precise digitalcontrol. This gives the user excellent realtime flow control and stability across awide range of sampling media. Pump op-eration is guided by an intuitive user inter-face displaying real time flow, sampledvolume with run duration, as well as a sim-ple battery “fuel gauge” and alarm for flowor battery fault conditions. IntrinsicallySafe (IS) models are available for use inhazardous locations.

Safety and health professionals can spec-ify the features they need by selecting thestandard model, the TUFF Plus, or TUFFPro. By choosing a 1.7 or 2.7 Ah batterypack, 3 or 4.5 L/min maximum flow rate ca-pacity the user can optimize performanceand price to meet their exact needs. EveryTUFF pump uses detachable and field-swappable NiMH battery packs ensuringmaximum uptime. Typical run times ofmore than 30 hours (depending on mediaand flow rate) make them the perfectchoice for longer sampling periods. CasellaTUFF air sampling pumps meet applicableNIOSH and EN requirements for personalsampling pumps. Casella offers a full line ofaccessories including sampling heads, im-pingers, filter media, and sorbent tubes,plus rotameters and calibrators for flow ver-ification ensuring compliance with ac-cepted sampling methodologies.

For more information, please call 800-366-2966 or email [email protected]. �

ABOUT CASELLA CEL Inc.Casella CEL Inc., a subsidiary of IDEAL

Industries, Inc. is headquartered inAmherst, NH. Customer support and ser-vice including instrument recalibrationare performed at this facility by factory-trained engineers.

Application advice and product selec-tion guidance is provided for usersthroughout Canada, the USA and Mex-ico. For additional information, pleasevisit www.casellausa.com. Other CasellaCEL products include real-time dustmonitors, personal noise dosimeters,heat stress monitors, sound level metersand real-time frequency analyzers andweather/rainfall monitoring.

For more information, please visitwww.casellameasurement.com.

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Safety and health professionals canspecify the features they need by selectingthe standard model, the TUFF Plus, orTUFF Pro.

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than 1,000 pounds. The goal was that in-dividuals can physically touch eachname of those lost at Ground Zero, at thePentagon, on Flight 93 and also the sixvictims from the first World Trade Cen-ter bombing on Feb. 26, 1993.

We at WARDJet are honored to haveplayed a small part in this memorial,supplying the waterjet used by ServiceMetal. �

About WARDJetWARDJet is a leading designer and

manufacturer of new and customwater-jet systems for precision cutting andma-

The unveiling of the NationalSeptember 11 Memorial and Mu-seum (museum opens in 2012) atGround Zero consists of a beauti-fulmemorial park showcasing 152brass plates positioned aroundthe memorial pools built in thefootprints of the Twin Towers.

Service Metal Fabricating, a familybusiness in Rockaway, NJ, was honoredto be chosen as one of the fabricators forthis precious memorial. They weretasked with cutting all 2,982 namesthrough half inch thick brass plates, each10 feet by 5 feet, weighing a little more

chining applications. Their open-architecture CNC platforms are designed to

accommodate multiple machiningprocesses such as drilling, tapping, ream-ing, rotational indexing or multiple-head5 axis waterjet cutting. WARDJet systemsare used around the world in a broadrange of industries, from the world’s lead-ing airlines to automotive, aerospace, in-dustrial manufacturers, machine and jobshops. WARDJet waterjet systems aremade in the U.S.A. Formore informationcontact the Sales Department, ph: 330-677-9100, ext. 6; fax: 330-677-9121;www.wardjet.com, [email protected].

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RebuildingGround Zero

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IndustryNews

T woaluminumwelding expertswill represent TheLincolnElectricCom-pany on the speakers’ platformat the 14thAnnual AluminumWeldingConference, sponsoredby theAmericanWelding Society (AWS), Sept.

20-21, at the Embassy Suites in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.Lincoln Electric’s Frank Armao will discuss “Metal Preparation for Alu-

minum Welding” on Tues., Sept. 20, at 11 a.m. Mark Burke, from LincolnElectric subsidiary company IndalcoAlloys,will cover “GasMetal ArcWeldingof AluminumAlloys” on Tuesday at 1:30 p.m.For more information or to register for the conference, visit

www.aws.org/w/a/conferences/index.html. For more information on LincolnElectric, visit www.lincolnelectric.www.lincolnelectric.com.The Lincoln Electric Company, headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio,

is the world leader in the design, development and manufactureof arc welding products, robotic arc welding systems, weldingfume control systems, plasma and oxyfuel cutting equipmentand has a leading global position in the brazing and solderingalloys market. �

Lincoln Electric WeldingExperts to Speak at 14th

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Quality assuranceis playing an ever

greater role in theworld of production.


ually building on its history of innovation,Mahr offers a broad spectrumof handheldmetrology, surface and formmetrology, aswell as systems for shafts, gears and tools,supplemented by software, training andservice. As process-oriented applicationspecialists,Mahr's staff works directly withcustomers to provide precision measure-ment solutions in industries ranging fromautomotive andaerospace tomedical prod-ucts, electrical, plastics, and optics.

"Quality assurance is playing an evergreater role in the world of production,"

important today all across industry, notonly in termsofprecisiongages andmetrol-ogy systems, but also in termsof the know-how and applications expertise needed toapply themproperly."

Mahr maintains four production facili-ties in Germany, the Czech Republic, theUS and China, as well as a vast network ofrepresentatives and service centersthroughout the world. The company alsosupports a number of calibration laborato-ries, like the Precision Measurement Cen-ter in Providence, RI, which handles MahrFederal's owncalibrationwork, andalsoof-fers commercial inspection and recalibra-tion services for dimensionalstandards—including gage blocks, masterrings, discs, plugs andballs, cylindrical formand precision reference specimens, andsurface roughness standards—aswell as forawide range of gages.

Recognizedworldwide for thequality, re-liability and ease-of-use of its dimensionalmetrology equipment, Mahr is equallyknown for the expertise of its staff. Contin-

said Picone. "The more important repeat-able precisionbecomes, the greater the im-portance of metrology to the final result.Our business is to ensure that those resultsare accurate. That should easily keep usbusy for another 150 years."

Mahr Federal Inc., a member of theMahrGroup, is celebrating its 150th year ofproviding dimensionalmeasurement solu-tions to fit customer applicationneeds. Thecompany manufactures and markets awide variety of dimensional metrologyequipment, from simple and easy-to-usehandheld gages to technically advancedmeasurement systems for form, contour,surface finish and length. Mahr Federal isalso well known as a producer of custom-designed gages and a provider of calibra-tion and contract measurement services.Mahr Federal's calibration laboratories areaccredited to ISO/IEC 17025:2005 NVLAPLab Code 200605-0 (see our Scope of Ac-creditation for accredited calibrationprocesses). For more information visitwww.mahr.com. �

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Apollo Fire Detectors’ new OpenConnect Gate-way® fully integrates fire detection with buildingmanagement systems (BMS), without the need

for complex systems or the use of multiple customizedinterfaces.The OpenConnect Gateway is effectively a ‘plug and

play’ device that can be incorporated into a fire controlpanel design, relaying information from the panel into theBMS using standard protocols such as BACnet™, Mod-bus® or LonWorks®. This gives both system integrators

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and end users the advantage of utilizingan intra-system communication archi-tecture between both environments,while maintaining the integrity of eachsystem independently. The benefits in-clude faster response times, coordina-tion strategies, and utilization ofpre-planned and/or pre-programmedevacuation procedures in case of emer-gency or times of failure. Because thegateway is an integral part of the firecontrol panel, it is also simple to installand configure reducing the associatedtime and costs when implemented intoprojects.

At the heart of the hardware is theTridium JACE®, designed in conjunctionwith the well-established Niagara AXFramework®, to provide easy physicalintegration to a host of established net-works.

The versatility of the OpenConnectstandard allows participating fire panelpartners to adopt and seamlessly inte-grate their equipment into buildingmonitoring, automation and control sys-tems using the gateway. Through itsPanel Partnership, Apollo has alreadyworked closely with leading panel man-ufacturers to develop panel-to-BMS in-terfaces, and will continue to do so asfuture licensed partners come onboardand develop suitable connections to thegateway hardware.

The new gateway will be available infour base models that reflect the num-ber of configured points exposed withinthe BMS environment (200, 1600, 12000and 25000). Each OpenConnect Gate-way includes two standard Ethernetports, an RS232 port, and a 15V DC in-put. Additional plug-in I/O slots are alsoavailable if needed for other connectors,such as LON adapters.

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Norton, theworld’s largest abrasivesmanufacturer, will be exhibitingnew abrasives products at FABTECH Booth # 6500 from No-vember 14-17, 2011atMcCormickPlace inChicago.Nortonwill

feature the latest in right anglegrinding solutions forweldingandmetal fabri-cation applications.http://www.nortonindustrial.com/metalfab/muscle.aspxThe Norton Abrasives booth will have four main displays, three

of which will be product towers featuring right angle grinding so-lutions from different categories, and one which will feature livedemonstrations of a variety of the products being displayed at theshow. Each product category will feature BEST, BETTER andGOOD solutions. The BEST category is for users looking for high-est productivity and lowest total cost; BETTER solutions are anexcellent blend of performance and price; and GOOD productsprovide consistent performance and low initial cost.One information tower will feature Flap Discs including SG

Blaze® R980P, NorZon® BlueFire™ and Merit® Metal discs. Newthis year is the Quick Trim backing on SG Blaze® and TwinStar™flap discs, providing a new flexible, easily-trimmed plastic back plate,

allowing full use of the flaps to reduce material and labor costs.SG Blaze is the industry’s best product and offers the lowest to-tal cost solution on stainless and alloys. BlueFire discs featurenew zirconia alumina plus abrasives for an increased cut rate,offering an exceptional blend of performance and price withup to 30% longer life over conventional zirconia products oncarbon steel and weld. Merit Metal abrasives utilize an engi-neered blend of two high-performance zirconia products toprovide the best starting specification, when price is a primaryconsideration.Norton’s NEW Non-Woven Right Angle Discs, including SG

Blaze® Rapid Strip™ and Vortex® Rapid Blend™will be featuredin a second tower. SG Blaze discs, which have Norton SG ceramicalumina grain for faster cutting and longer life, are a better choicefor stripping rough rust and scale off of metal parts while still beingflexible enough to avoid gouging the base material. New Vortexdiscs feature an innovative, high-performance engineered grain andimproved resin bond system, providing aggressive, fast stock re-

NORTON ABRASIVES TO FEATURENEW PRODUCT SOLUTIONS FOR RIGHTANGLE GRINDING AT FABTECH 2011.

Visit booth #6500 to see live demonstrations of new Norton Abrasives’ products.


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materials, and a leader in the production ofhigh performance materials, glass contain-ers and abrasives. Founded in 1665 andheadquartered in Paris, Saint-Gobain hadworldwide sales of $52.7 billion in 2009and employs approximately 209,000 peo-ple. In the United States and Canada, Saint-Gobain employs approximately 19,000people, and had sales of $6.8 billion in

moval and a fine finish in deburring andblending operations.Depressed Center Wheels will be fea-

tured in a third tower and will include anexciting new product line introduction inthis category - NEW BlueFire™ ad-vanced zirconia wheels will be debutedat FABTECH. This upgrade from theCharger™ line to the all new BlueFirewheels features the latest generation ofthe patented Norton SG and NortonNorzon grain combination. Depressedcenter wheels ranging from 4”- 9” withthickness from 1/8” – 1/4” will be fea-tured. Depressed center wheels are de-signed to handle the most severe rightangle grinding applications from heavystock removal and rough blending tonotching/cut-off.Norton Abrasives’ booth will also have a

Live Demonstration Area where many abra-sives, including the new product solutions,will be put through their paces.

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fab/muscle.aspx) to learn more about theNorton Abrasives product line. Also,Norton recently announced the availabil-ity of a completely re-designed Norton/Merit welding and metal fabrication eCat-alog. The new catalog is available onlineat (http://www.nortonindustrial.com/), andis also available in print.

About Saint-GobainNorton is a brand of Saint-Gobain. With

more than 1,000 subsidiaries in 59 coun-tries, Saint-Gobain (http://www.saint-gob-ain.com/en) is the world’s largestmanufacturer and distributor of building

2009. The company has approximately 150manufacturing plants and more than 150distribution outlets throughout NorthAmerica.

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Accoustics 24 www.accousticsfirst.comAcorn Iron & Supply 12 wwww.acorniron.comActek Mfg. 10 www.actekmfg.comAmerican Technical Publishers 16 www.go2atp.comBradford Derustit 26 www.derustit.comEagle Bending Machines 32 www.eaglebendingmachines.comComeq 2 www.comeq.comContinental Pipe & Tube 21 www.continentalcutoff.comControlled Automation 5 www.controlledautomation.comCor-Met 14 www.cor-met.comDynabrade 17 www.dynabrade.comElk River 2 www.elkriver.comFab Tech 29 www.fabtechexpo.comGorbel 7 www.gorbel.comGorbel 28 www.gorbel.comHobart Institute of Welding Technology 22 www.welding.orgIPG Photonics IFC www.ipgphotonics.comJesco Industries 3 www.jescoonline.comKMT Waterjet IBC www.kmtwaterjet.comKnuth Machine Tools USA 8 www.knuth-machinetools.comNorton Abrasives BC www.nortonindustrial.com/metal fab/muscle.aspexPhase-A-Matic 25 www.phase-a-matic.comRadan 13 www.radan.comRammount 23 www.ram-mount.comRoboVent 19 www.robovent.comRofin-Baasel 1 www.rofin-baasel-usa.comRud Chains 30 www.rudchains.comScotchman Industries 11 www.scotchman.comShopbottools 27 www.shopbottools.comSIC Marking Systems 18 www.sic-marking.comSpanco 29 www.spanco.comSteelman Industries 24 www.steelman.comTrilogy 22 www.trilogymachinery.comUnist 15 www.unist.comWarehouse Equipment & Supply 31 www.warehouseequipment.comWellsaw 26 www.wellsaw.comWila 9 www.wila.com

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