Martin Bridges, responsible for new business development explains: “Where once we were just given components to thermally deburr and return, we are now being asked to work with metallurgists, material scientists and project leaders from various industries. Their briefs seem very similar: to either understand better, or get the most from, existing process; or to utilise existing processes to improve others.”

Many surface finishing processes are made ineffectual by loose burrs or small burrs protruding through the finishing and forming weak spots, prone to failure and corrosion. Tests are being conducted to quantify the benefits of thermal pre-treatment.

Thermal deburring has historically been performed before heat treatment and honing. Now they are trialling deburring a second time to remove the finer burrs created from the honing.

The company is now getting academic feedback that they do exactly what they've always claimed to do, i.e. remove 100% of all potentially loose burrs, fraise, whiskers and contaminants.

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