Washington Mills is one of the world’s largest producers of abrasives and fused mineral products, offering an exceptionally wide line of standard abrasive grain and specialty electro-fused minerals from its worldwide multi-plant locations. At Washington Mills, our business is providing our customers with the highest quality products and service at the best price – we pay attention to that business.
We manufacture and distribute a wide range of products in many different grains and powder sizes: Alumina Bubbles, Alumina-Silica Fines, Alumina-Zirconia, Boron Carbide, Brown Aluminum Oxide, Chrome-Alumina, Custom Fusions, Emery, Fused Silica, High Chromium Ruby Colored Aluminum Oxide, Iron Pyrite, Magnesium Oxide, Mullite, Pink Aluminum Oxide, Potassium Fluoroborate KBF4, Silica Fume, Silicon Carbide, Spinel, Synthetic Cryolite, Toll fusion, White Fused Alumina, Zirconia
We manufacture many of our fused materials through an electric arc fusion process or Acheson furnace technology. The fusion process transforms raw materials such as bauxite, silica sand and alumina into materials such as aluminum oxide, silicon carbide, zirconia, mullite and many other fused materials. These abrasive and fused materials possess properties that make them valuable in hundreds of different applications.
Washington Mills’ grains and powders touch more things than meet the eye.
From Aerospace to Mining - Clean Energy Technologies to Metallurgy - High Tech Ceramics to Thermal Sprays - Washington Mills’ materials perfect your products and technologies. Washington Mills’ fused minerals can be found at work in the following industries and applications:
| Advanced Ceramics | Coatings | Mass Finishing | Photovoltaic |
| Aerospace | Cosmetics | Medical Devices | Precision Cutting |
| Automotive | Electronics | Metal Finishing | Pressure Blasting |
| Bonded & Coated Abrasives | Investment Cast | Mining | Refractory |
| Buffing Compounds | Iron & Steel | Nuclear | Surface Preparation |
| Ceramics | Laminates | Oil & Gas | Thermal Sprays |
| Clean Energy | Lapping | Paint | Wiresawing |
Washington Mills’ fused materials are carefully engineered to perform a multitude of tasks across a wide variety of industries and specific applications. The natural properties of our materials coupled with our proprietary manufacturing processes and fusion expertise make our materials highly effective in many different applications. Washington Mills’ materials are most commonly known for their excellence in:
| Anti-skid | Hot Strength | Piercing | Sharpening |
| Blasting | Insulating | Polishing | Slicing |
| Burnishing | Grinding | Precision Cutting | Surface Preparation |
| Chemical Stability | Metal Finishing | Profiling | Thermal Shock Resistance |
| Cutting | Metal Separation | Sanding | Thermal Stability |
| De-burring | Neutron Absorption | Scale Removal | Wear-resistance |
Washington Mills manufactures and distributes a broad line of fused mineral products designed to meet the needs of your particular industry or application. Our products come in a variety of sizes and can be made with custom coatings or treatments. Some of our major product lines include:
If you are in search of a product that is not listed here, let us help you make the material you're looking for. Our New Product Development Service is uniquely equipped with special trial size equipment and skilled engineers to tackle your material challenge. Please click here for more information on custom materials.