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Treating non-skid surfaces during the surface preparation process. The most widely used methods of applications are troweling it into fresh concrete, rolling it into resilient materials such as asphalt, bonding to any type of surface with various adhesives, resins cements and paints, and casting into iron and aluminum.

Blasting Media, or abrasive grit, is used to clean and prepare surfaces prior to applying coatings or to produce a desired surface profile. Grit blasting is an essential part in surface preparation prior to applying coatings. Washington Mills offers products such as; brown aluminum oxide, white aluminum oxide, silicon carbide, and alumina-zirconia for use while blasting.  Fused minerals and abrasive grain can blasted through a wet or dry pressure blasting system. The process of abrasive blasting, or grit blasting, removes the contaminants and unwanted substances from the piece’s surface in order to produce a clean surface that will promote adhesion to the final coating.

Burnishing is the act of rubbing a substrate with a material to create a lustrous and shiny surface.  

Chemical stability is defined as having the ability to resist change or decomposition due to internal reaction, or due to the action of air, heat, light, pressure, or other outside forces.

Cutting is an action performed by an abrasive coated saw blade, disc, or similar thin  grinding wheels with the intention of separating a workpiece.  High-quality fused minerals are key to precision cutting.  

Additive manufacturing,also knows as 3D printing, is a technology that’s been around for nearly 30 years that has become increasingly more widespread offering possibilities for future product development. It is the process of creating a structure made by the addition of thousands of tiny layers, when combined, create a product. Computer and CAD software assists when designing and “printing” the desired shape. The common types of additive manufacturing;

Abrasives are used in the cosmetic industry in products such as body and facial scrub, special cremes, soaps, dermabrasion, cleansing lotions, and toothpaste. In the case of applications such as facial scrubs, and dermabrasion, abrasives actually "sand" the skin to improve the skin's contour by removing old layers of damaged skin. Fine, pure abrasives are the products best suited to the cosmetic industry.