New research has identified several influential trends that are helping abrasive manufacturers and suppliers achieve best practice, improve workforce engagement and mitigate safety risks. These include an aging workforce, health and safety expectations, process automation, inflationary pressures, and sustainability prioritisation.
A major driver behind the development of new abrasive technologies in recent years is the demand for better product life, speed and finish consistency, while delivering higher throughput and lower costs. This relies on productivity improvements in the abrasive selection process, which is set to be a key theme in the years ahead.
As any workshop would know, grinding not only wears down abrasives and equipment, but constant vibrations and the stress of holding a grinder at different angles for long periods of time, has a physical toll on metalworkers. Wastage is also a big problem as abrasives can wear down quickly and are thrown away. These have both an environmental impact, but also results in tool downtime, reducing the time your team spends grinding.
The new 3M™ Cubitron™ 3 abrasives are designed to support workshops in overcoming these challenges by producing more, with less.
“Our latest technology continues to evolve and provide customers with the highest levels of precision, productivity and performance,” says Nathan Bamford, 3M Application Engineer for the Abrasive Systems Division. “The Cubitron™ 3 range is not only designed to reduce labour time, rework, and total abrasive volume consumed, but increases throughput, and helps mitigate safety hazard exposure.”
Since the launch of the Cubitron™ 2 range, the world's-first precision-shaped triangular grain ceramic abrasives, the new 3M™ Cubitron™ 3 has raised the benchmark for cut rate and product life in heavy grinding and cutting applications. The abrasives feature a re-engineered precision-shaped ceramic grain, a proprietary breakthrough in grain shape and molecular bonding technology.
Inflationary pressures also remain steadfast, and businesses are feeling the pinch. Increasing overheads and manufacturing input costs only further impact productivity. 3M™ Cubitron™ 3 technology is helping workshops overcome these pressures by offering greater performance gains, wear life and cut rate compared to the previous Cubitron™ 2 model, all for a similar price.
There’s also the challenge of finding skilled workers and the higher labour costs involved in recruiting and training new ones, not to mention product safety. 3M™ Cubitron™ 3 makes grinding easier and faster, with reduced vibration that lowers the stress and physical impact on workers. This means your team can keep more productive with the added confidence they can back it up shift after shift.
If you’re running a workshop and looking to boost performance and productivity, choose the Cubitron™ 3 range and take your metalworking to the next level. Check out the Cubitron™ 3 range here.
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