Norton - Saint-Gobain Abrasives, one of the world’s largest abrasives manufacturers, offers Norton Xtrimium range of gear solutions designed for high performance gear grinding in extreme, tight tolerance environments. The portfolio of gear grinding products is specifically designed by category to provide higher profile accuracy, supreme form holding and burn-free grinding in worm, profile, and bevel applications. Highlighting the range is an innovative dual-worm wheel design that enables two operations in one grinding wheel, substantially saving time and cost.

“In today’s increasingly stringent industry requirements for higher accuracy and improved surface finishes, our high performance Xtrimium grinding wheels are engineered to deliver the highest quality gear grinding solutions,” said Jim Gaffney, Sr. Product Manager, Norton - Saint-Gobain Abrasives.

Dual-Worm gear grinding innovation Norton Xtrimium Dual-Worm Grinding Wheels feature a unique design with a high-performance vitrified bond section for grinding and a fine-grit resin section for polishing the gear teeth, enabling one wheel to perform what traditionally required two wheels. Substantial savings in wheel costs and productivity via the elimination of wheel swapping can be achieved with the Norton design. In addition, improved surface finishes of Rz = 1.0mm and Rpk = 0.05mm, and reduced harmonics (noise) are realized. The Norton Xtrimium Dual-Worm Grinding wheels can also be adapted to existing machines.

The Norton Xtrimium Gear Grinding Platform also covers the whole range of gear grinding processes and leverages the whole spectrum of Norton grains and bond technologies to match each customer's requirements with: