The events in the industry are of interest to anyone concerned with manufacturing resources and technologies. The shifting abrasives market and the advent of new products are important to buyers who purchase consumable abrasives, to engineers who need the most productive and quality methods, and to managers who seek to control manufacturing operations. This report is also important to industrial distributors who need to keep an eye on trends in an industry that provide distributors with the most common products they sell. This reports is limited to select mineral and nonmineral materials that are used to make common abrasive products. Only the most economically significant materials are included in this study.
Some limitations apply because of size and extent of markets covered.
Many abrasive materials are used as products in their crude, unprocessed forms and will be covered. But this study does not cover abrasive products such as grinding wheels. The following report includes a description of abrasives classed as natural minerals, synthetic minerals, and manufactured nonmineral abrasives. Within each section there are details of the important abrasives, production data, markets, key trends, and projections. The report comes from several information resources.