Bonded abrasives are in various shapes such as wheels, segments, sticks, and many other. Bonded abrasives are divided into vitrified, rubber products and thin wheels and are manufactured by mixing grains with bonding material, molding them to shape and then subjecting the output to firing or baking in high temperature and finishing the same to desired dimensions.

Bonded abrasives contain abrasive grains held together in a form of resin, glass, rubber, or other materials and used as grinding wheels and stones and sticks forms. They are used to remove surface materials such as metal, ceramics, glass, plastics, and paint.

Bonded abrasives found in various type according to their requirement such as depressed center wheels, cup-shaped wheels, recessed or relieved, wheels, tapered body wheel. Depressed center wheels used in weld grinding, weld spatter removal descaling, heavy deburring and operations requiring rapid stock removal. Cup-Shaped Wheels type bonded abrasives applications include weld removal, flame-cut grinding, flash, and gate and riser removal. Recessed Or Relieved, Wheels used in Suitable for all metal cutting applications. Examples includes sheet metal cutting, pipe and rods sectioning, Gate removal and tapered body wheel have a thicker cross-section at the bore, which becomes thinner or tapers toward the outer diameter.

An analyst from Market Research Future (MRFR)’s team said, “Global Bonded Abrasives market size is expected to grow at USD ~18.1 billion by 2022. The market witnessed a significant growth over the forecasted period owing to growing applications such as precision grinding, cutting, rough grinding, fabrication, polishing, and others across various industries.

Key Players

•Saint-Gobain Abrasives (US)

•3M Manufacturing company (US)

•Buffalo Abrasives Inc(US)

•Abrasivos Manhattan SA (Spain)

•Marrose Abrasives (U.K)

•Grinding Techniques (Pty) Ltd (South Africa)

•SAK Abrasives Limited (India)

•sia Abrasives Industries AG (Switzerland)

•Flexovit (U.S)

•Carborundum Universal Limited (India)

•Others.

Bonded abrasives can be segmented: On the basis of end user industry into the following categories including automobile, shipbuilding, construction, general metalworking, and others. On the basis of application bonded abrasives segmented in to precision grinding, cutting, rough grinding, fabrication, polishing, and others.

The growing automobile industry is expected to boost the overall growth of the bonded abrasives market specifically in APAC region. Bonded abrasives are widely used in the required surface finish such as lapping, grinding, honing, and polishing and the appropriate design to the automobiles.