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Products

PSS-Abrasive & Tool Division  was founded in 1985, offering a core product line of honing stones and tooling. In 2005, the company acquired the tooling and abrasive line of products from Micromatic, adding to the Bates legacy nearly 80 years of honing and bore finishing innovation. Bates Technologies was aquired by Lapmaster in 2009, adding to it's large product group and capabilities.Our core product line of honing stones, honing machine tools, mandrel tools, CMC honing equipment and commercial honing products. We also provide superabrasive honing products and mandrel tools for air-gage-monitored honing systems and honing machines for almost all renowned Honing brands. Our honing stones, honing tools and honing machine products are engineered and manufactured to optimize the performance of a variety of finishing processes.

Our Products

  • Conventional Microabrasives
  • Superabrasives (CBN and Diamond)
  • Superabrasive Honing Stones for use in virtually every honing machine on the market.
  • Production Honing Stones
  • Honing Mandrels and Tooling
  • Microhone®, Microsize®, Micro-Mold® Bonded Tooling
  • Electro-Plated Expandable Mandrels and Tooling
  • CBN and Diamond Electro-Plated Products Wheels, Wears and Gripping Surfaces
  • Gaging and Size Control Systems
  • Microhone® CNC Tooling and Abrasive Systems

Our Services

Our relationship extends through your process. Bates has created a one-stop-shop in order to accommodate best practices for our customers:

  • Stock and Custom Honing Stones and Tooling
  • Applications Technology Center (ATC)
  • Test Drive Trial Program
  • Process Application Analysis
  • Service Department
  • Tool Reconditioning
Precision Surfacing Solutions family of brands
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  • PRECISION SURFACING SOLUTIONS

    PRECISION SURFACING SOLUTIONS supports manufacturers in a wide variety of industries in which precision grinding, lapping, polishing, deburring and advanced materials processing equipment is commonly used. They all need high-quality, high-precision, stable and well-engineered machines to manufacture high-quality work pieces.

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  • Lapmaster Wolters

    Founded in Chicago in 1948 as a manufacture of lapping and polishing machines for the mechanical seal market, Lapmaster has grown to a worldwide solution provider for more than 20 industries like precision optics and advanced materials.

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  • Barnes Honing

    Since 1907 Barnes has been considered a world leader in developing innovative honing and bore finishing technology and processes. The earliest Barnes honing machines were the first to make honing a practical and efficient means of finishing automotive cylinder bores in a production environment.

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  • ISOG

    Since May 2020, the brand ISOG belongs to the globally active Precision Surfacing Solutions Group. With the addition of ISOG to the already existing strong brands within the Group, PSS further strengthens its position as a leading supplier of high quality, best in class technologies in the market of surface quality enhancement solutions.

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  • ELB-Schliff

    ELB-Schliff Werkzeugmaschinen GmbH has been producing surface and profile grinding machines for over 70 years. The company was founded by Edmund Lang in the city of Babenhausen which led to the name "ELB-Schliff".

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  • aba Grinding

    The aba company was founded in 1898 under the name "Messwerkzeugfabrik Alig & Baumgärtel Aschaffenburg", hence the initials aba. Today, the aba Grinding Technologies is exclusively focused on the advancement and production of precision surface and profile grinding machines.

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  • REFORM

    REFORM Grinding Technology GmbH is specialized in the sales, development & production of grinding machines for various applications at its location in Aschaffenburg (Germany).

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  • KEHREN

    Founded in 1934, KEHREN is a well-established designer and builder of high-precision grinding machine tools and systems under the following categories: vertical grinding centers, vertical grinding centers with portal design, surface grinders with rotary tables and horizontal spindles, and surface grinders with dual rotary tables and vertical spindles.

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  • Micron

    Produced in Germany since 2009, MICRON machines are compact and dynamically rigid grinding machines especially designed for Creep Feed and Profile grinding. MICRON is an industry leader in grinding of Hydraulic components like stators, rotors and van pumps.

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  • Peter Wolters

    Founded in Germany in 1804 by Mr. Peter Wolters, Peter Wolters has been producing lapping, polishing and fine grinding equipment since 1936. In 2019 Precision Surfacing Solutions acquired the division Wafer plant and service business for photovoltaic and special materials of Meyer Burger. Further Information can be found at www.precision-surface.ch

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