Diamond tools for many different industries, applications & materials

Glass market

KGS is a market leader manufacturing and selling flexible diamond abrasives into the global Glass Market, as the famous and patented KGS Telum® diamond belts. This leadership position was created through technological innovation, intimate knowledge of customer processes, close relationships with machine builders and by keeping the customer at the heart of the business. KGS flexible diamond abrasives enter every sector of the glass market, including architectural glass, automotive glass, decorative glass, furniture glass and many technical glass components. KGS flexible diamond abrasive products satisfy the most demanding customer requirements for belts, discs, sheets and hand pads, bringing quality, productivity and innovation to the customer.

For a quick overview of our most common diamond belts and tools for glass, see our page Superabrasives for the glass industry.

Stone & construction

The stone & construction industry has been the backbone market for KGS DIAMOND during the past 60 years still accounting for around 40% of the group’s turnover today. In these 60 years KGS has brought a large number of innovative grinding and polishing solutions to the market. Examples are KGS Ferromin™ polishing abrasives, KGS Swiflex® the first ever dry grinding and polishing diamond tools, KGS Speedline® polishing discs and many more. KGS has truly set standards in the field.

Please visit our detail application pages for specific information click on the links below:
Cutting / Shaping / Grinding & Polishing

Porcelain

KGS DIAMOND has developed an excellent specification for the porcelain industry which meets the very high quality requirements for smooth bases on plates, cups, saucers and other tableware in a variety of applications, both on machines such as Lippert, and for manual operations.

Composites

High Tech composite materials provide specific challenges for precision grinding and polishing. These materials composed of glass fibres, Kevlar, carbon fibres and epoxy resins are found in trains, boats, planes and windmills, just to name a few… KGS offers totally NEW products to its customers to meet these challenging and difficult applications. We offer simple and easy to use solutions to remove more material faster and to leave beautiful surface finishes.

Floor industry

KGS is a technology driven company regularly applying for patents and bringing innovations to the abrasives world. The control of complex technologies such as metallisation of fabrics, electroplating, metal bond and resin bond sintering, moulded resin expertise, spray coating and standard coated abrasives technologies allows for technological synergies and truly unique innovations.

Superhard Coatings

Superhard Coatings are difficult to grind or polish. These hard, brittle surfaces require the highest technology to meet quality and precision objectives. KGS provides innovative flexible diamond tools to grind and polish HVOF coated hydraulic rams, shock absorbers, large rollers and other hard coated cylindrical parts as the KGS Telum® CH, KGS Flexis® and KGS Swiflex® SDA diamond and Ferrzon® products.