Meister Abrasives worked closely with their customer, a manufacturer of large volumes of planer knives for the woodworking industry, who requested assistance with their grinding process. The current process used a creep-feed grinding setup with vitrified CBN wheels from another manufacturer. There were two key issues. First, the customer wished to increase capacity with a reduction in cycle time.  Secondly, they were fighting sporadic burning of the parts.

After a careful analysis, Meister engineers introduced the newest High Performance Lubrication (HPL) technology, combining premium grade CBN crystals with a durable, porous, and intrinsically lubricated bonding matrix. HPL technology was tailor-made for this application, and resulted in a faster, cooler, and more efficient grinding process. The customer was able to speed up the cycle by 33% with no burning of the parts.