UK and Ireland representative

Paul Batson, managing director of Master Abrasives, explains: "We identified diamond polishing products such as diamond slurries and micron diamond powders, as an area which needed be added to our product range to make our product offering even stronger and more comprehensive. At the same time, we were contacted by Microdiamant, which was looking for a UK partner. The Microdiamant products are manufactured to highest quality standards in Switzerland."

Master Abrasives believes the company to be the only European diamond microniser with fully integrated production and sees the new partnership between Master and Microdiamant as a positive step forward for both companies.

“We are delighted to start this cooperation with Master Abrasives,” comments Nicola Vella, head of sales and business development at Microdiamant, adding: “Together we can make use of synergies and ensure that customers in the UK and Ireland benefit from this combined expertise.”

Over the past 60+ years, Microdiamant has been continuously optimising and re-inventing micron diamond with customer needs as a constant focus. Microdiamant is a privately held company that distributes its products through a network of specialised agents, with subsidiaries in about 20 countries across Europe, USA and Asia. 

These types of diamond products are not something Master Abrasives has focused on in the past, so the Microdiamant product range now gives the company an opportunity to offer customers these products. Microdiamant manufactures diamond products in all common diamond types; natural, monocrystalline, polycrystalline and nanocluster, and in diamond sizes ranging from 18 nanometers up to 100 microns.

The products added to Master Abrasives superabrasives range can be split into a few categories, the first being Micron Diamond Powders for the superfinishing of hard materials with demanding specifications for surface quality and dimensional accuracy. Micron Diamond Powders are offered in a comprehensive product range in micron and sub-micron size range, and in synthetic and natural diamond. 

Secondly Microdiamant offers Diamond slurries for various industries for lapping and polishing of hard materials. Microdiamant offer both engineered and ready-to-use diamond slurries. Engineered slurries offer flexibility to adapt to the exact product needs to achieve optimal performance, process stability and cost-effectiveness. The ready-to-use diamond slurries combine highest-level of precision graded micron diamond sizes with chemical formulations designed to offer exceptional removal rate and surface quality. They also enable customers to achieve high performance but help to minimise total process cost. 

Microdiamant also offers liquid diamond GAFs, diamond compounds and grinding pads, composite polishing pads, polishing pads and metallography products as other sections of its extensive product portfolio.

Master Abrasives already sells a comprehensive range of abrasives, but the addition of Microdiamant superabrasives will provide their customers an even better selection of tools. Master Abrasives team is very familiar with grinding, lapping and polishing processes, having years of experience in these applications.