Cutting Consumables

Cutting Consumables

Wide range of cutoff wheels for all types of materialographic preparations

  • No structural changes
  • No overheating
  • No deformation

Struers’ cut-off wheels are especially designed for Struers’ machines, including state-of-the-art abrasive wet cutting techniques. They have been specially developed for materialographic specimen preparation – producing specimens that are in perfect condition for the next preparation step.

You can improve your sectioning of virtually all cutting materials usinge Struers’ comprehensive selection of cut-off wheels and additives, such as Cooli Additive and Cooli Additive Plus, that allows you 3 times as many cuts. You can use, all Struers cutting consumables without causing structural changes to the wheel or specimen due to overheating or deformation, ensuring a maximum life time of the wheels.

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Challenge

CIE Praga Louny, a.s., who primarily produces machined parts for the automotive sector, wanted to increase and simplify production capacity in their lab, reducing costs and with no new investment. More specific, the company required an even more efficient method for quality testing the hardening of their produced wheel flanges.

Solution

In cooperation with Struers, they developed a new sectioning process for the quality test. After testing several cut-off wheels, the result showed that Struers Premium Alumina cut-off wheels, in this case, have a lifetime three times as long when compared to standard cut-off wheels. Premium Alumina cut-off wheels also delivered the best results concerning quality and the maximum speed of the cutting process.

Value

With Struers Premium cut-off wheels, CIE Praga Louny, a.s. achieved:

• An increased feed speed by 50 %
• A calculated reduction of costs by 50 %
• Three times increasing of cut-off wheel lifetime
• Lower costs in a shorter time span due to the quality of the cut

Břetislav Bubeníček, Product Assurance Engineer, CIE Praga Louny, a.s

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Easy ordering at your convenience

The Struers Webshop gives you access to your full range of consumables for materialographic sample preparation. It also offers you a planning tool based on your particular requirements.

Designed with your purchasing needs in mind, you can access your order history, reorder, enter new orders, get real-time product availability, and see delivery times.

View your pending orders and manage shipping and payment details – all in one place, and whenever it suits you.

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