Choosing the right abrasive for metal shipbuilding will:
Improve the efficiency
Improve the efficiency
Choosing the right abrasive will allow for more efficient surface preparation, welding, and material removal.
Weld Seam Cleaning & Finishing
Weld Seam Cleaning & Finishing
Welding is critical in shipbuilding and ship repair. Proper cleaning and preparation are necessary to ensure full penetration of welds.
Minimize Cross-Contamination
Minimize Cross-Contamination
Utilizing specialized abrasives with a contaminant-free formula, and strict quality control and product segregation are essential to mitigate these issues.
Increase Safety
Increase Safety
Training users on the safe and proper use of abrasives helps keep users safe, increases productivity and reduces lost work time and injury claims.
Offset Labor Shortages
Offset Labor Shortages
Providing users with the right abrasives can increase productivity and help offset labor shortages by increasing uptime and morale.
Helping You Gain A Competitive Advantage
As an experienced global provider of abrasive solutions, Weiler Abrasives understands the unique needs of the shipbuilding and repair industry. We continuously innovate in response to emerging challenges to support the growth and sustainability of the shipbuilding and repair industry. Application experts work directly with shipbuilders at their facility to see production processes first-hand and work to resolve issues quickly. We help you choose the right abrasive for your applications to help you do more with less and increase efficiency, safety, and productivity.
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Precision Cutting Wheels
Tiger Ceramic has been specifically designed for tough metal foundry applications, offering superior cuts and long life. These depressed center wheels can remove up to 40% more material than competitive zirconia products, resulting in more uptime and fewer abrasives replacements.
Weiler Abrasives has also incorporated an advanced anti-chipping technology to improve operator safety in the foundry operation. It eliminates uneven edge breakage and chipping and reduces the chance of flying debris during grinding. The technology also lengthens wheel life and offers a reliable grinding edge, while a triple fiberglass reinforcement design further increases wheel strength.
Weiler Abrasives also offers the Tiger Type 27 grinding wheel in zirconia and aluminum oxide grain — both performance tiers, with the ceramic setting the highest standard.
Grinding Wheels
When compared to competitive zirconia cups, Weiler Abrasives industry-exclusive ceramic grain technology allow the Tiger Ceramic cup grinding wheels to cut up to 30% faster. This results in high metal removal and improved productivity in the foundry cleaning room, especially on hard-to-grind materials. A balanced cup design reduces vibration and operator fatigue.
Each cup wheel includes a Weiler Abrasives exclusive safety feature — an anchored hexagon nut that secures the cup in place, locking it to the tool. Operators can have peace of mind when working on the most challenging metal casting foundry jobs, knowing that the cup is secure and resists breakage. This zinc-plated nut also resists oxidation and compared to cups with standard metal backs, offers up to three times higher torque holding strength and withstands double speed burst test ratings.
Tiger cup wheels are also available in zirconia for fast metal removal, silicon carbide for burnt sand castings and alumina oxide grains for cast iron metal foundry applications.
Flap Discs
For use with straight grinders, Tiger cones and plugs provide an aggressive cut-rate from start to finish. They are ideal for ID cleaning, hole edge beveling, cleaning castings in hard-to-reach areas. Each cone and plug feature an anchored, heavy-duty steel hex nut to secure the abrasives to the grinder and improve operator safety.
Power Brushes
Tiger Type 1 portable snagging wheels for pneumatic straight grinders and high frequency electric straight grinders support heavy stock removal, rough beveling, and snagging. They are available in 3, 6- and 8-inch wheels with double fiberglass reinforcements to increase strength and resist chipping.
Weiler Abrasives offers the cones, plugs and snagging wheels for the foundry cleaning room including Tiger Ceramic, Tiger Zirc and Tiger AO. Each abrasive type and grain provide smooth, vibration-free operation to improve operator comfort and lessen fatigue. An open face design also provides aggressive cut-rate right out of the box.
Resin Fiber Discs
Ideal for cleaning IDs, complex geometries, hard-to-reach places and more, Tiger Zirc mounted points are available in a variety of shapes. They feature an engineered stem bonding for strength, stability and safety and have a dressed work surface, so operators don’t need to break them in.
