In the global marketplace the manufacture and repair of turbine blades comes under increasing pressure to combine speed, accuracy and quality of design to create sustainable cost reduction.
Our Technical Service Support Teams, working in partnership within the turbine blade industry over many years, provide practical and ingenious solutions to help you succeed using the most innovative abrasives on the market.
High temperatures, pressures, stress and vibration place big demands on the super alloys of investment cast parts. That's why 3M offers high performance abrasives to grind and finish these advanced materials.
Solutions for highlighting and removing surface skin, defects and inclusions, intermediate blending and finishing, radiussing leading and trailing edges, final blend and satin finishing.
Solutions for the cut-off process, removing castings from the tree, removing runners and risers, grinding gates and pads, removing excess braze in repair operations, removing flash and defects.