Non-woven abrasive belts are an essential tool in industrial metal finishing, providing consistent surface conditioning, deburring, and polishing. They are widely used in strip metal production, coil lines, and precision manufacturing for both ferrous and non-ferrous metals.

If you’re a metal processor or manufacturer, understanding how to properly use non-woven abrasive belts can improve product quality, extend belt life, and increase efficiency on your production lines.

What Are Non-Woven Abrasive Belts?

Non-woven abrasive belts are made from open-web fibers embedded with abrasive grains, offering a uniform abrasive surface that is flexible, conformable, and long-lasting.

Key characteristics include:

• Soft, non-woven construction for controlled finishing

• Suitable for deburring, polishing, and surface conditioning

• Works on flat or contoured surfaces without damaging edges

Atlantech Process offers a variety of non-woven abrasive belts & brushes designed for industrial metal finishing applications.

Steps for Using Non-Woven Abrasive Belts

1. Select the Right Belt
   • Choose the correct grit and material for your application (e.g., fine grit for polishing, medium for deburring).

   • Atlantech offers belts for steel, stainless steel, aluminum, and other non-ferrous metals.

2. Mount the Belt Properly
   • Ensure the belt is aligned correctly on the machine’s roller or belt sander.

   • Tension should be firm but not overstretched to prevent tearing.

3. Set the Correct Speed and Pressure
   • Adjust belt speed according to metal type and thickness.

   • Apply light, even pressure to avoid gouging or uneven surface finish.

4. Move Consistently Across the Surface
   • Use smooth, overlapping strokes to ensure uniform finishing.

   • For strips or coils, a continuous feed system ensures even surface treatment.

5. Clean and Maintain the Belt
   • Remove metal dust and debris from the belt periodically to prevent clogging.

   • Replace the belt when worn or if abrasive grains are no longer effective.

Industrial Applications of Non-Woven Abrasive Belts

• Strip Metal Finishing – Deburring and polishing steel and stainless steel strips before coating or shipping.

• Edge Conditioning – Rounding edges on flat metal strips using disc or belt-based non-woven systems.

• Surface Preparation – Prepares metal for painting, powder coating, or galvanizing.

• Deburring Machines – Integrated into non-woven belt-based deburring machines for high-volume production.

Atlantech Process Non-Woven Abrasive Belt Solutions

Atlantech Process provides a full range of non-woven abrasive products and machines to enhance industrial finishing:

• Non-Woven Abrasive Brushes – For continuous belt and brush systems.

• Flap Brushes – For flexible finishing and edge work.

• Convolute Brushes – Dense finishing for aggressive deburring.

• Disc Brushes – For edge rounding and uniform surface polishing.

• Combi Brushes – Multi-functional brushes for combined cleaning and finishing tasks.

• Super Soft Brushes – Gentle polishing of delicate metal surfaces.

Atlantech also offers complete non-woven finishing systems that integrate belts, discs, and brushes for automated industrial production.

Tips for Maximizing Belt Life and Efficiency

• Avoid excessive pressure, which can wear belts prematurely.

• Use the appropriate belt grit for the material you are finishing.

• Maintain clean surfaces and remove debris to prevent clogging or streaking.

• Rotate belts and brushes in multi-belt systems for even wear.

Conclusion

Non-woven abrasive belts are a critical tool for modern industrial metal finishing, providing consistent deburring, polishing, and surface preparation without damaging the substrate.

With Atlantech Process non-woven abrasive brushes and belts, metal producers can ensure high-quality finishes, efficient production, and long-lasting equipment performance.

Explore the full range of non-woven abrasive solutions at atlantechprocess.com.

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Flat strip and sheet metals are essential forms of rolled metal used across manufacturing sectors. While strip metal is generally narrow and coiled, sheet metal is produced in wider, flat sheets. These materials can be made from ferrous metals (like carbon steel and stainless steel) or non-ferrous metals (such as aluminum, copper, and brass).

Industries that rely on flat strip and sheet metals include:

• Automotive – body panels, structural reinforcements, battery housings

• Aerospace – fuselage skins, interior structures, precision components

• Construction – roofing, cladding, framing, architectural finishes

• Electronics – enclosures, heat sinks, conductive strips

• HVAC – ductwork, vents, and heat exchanger plates

Leading Flat Strip and Sheet Metal Producers

Some of the world’s most recognized producers include:

1. ArcelorMittal – Global leader in steel strip and sheet products for automotive and infrastructure.

2. Nippon Steel Corporation – Produces high-grade flat steel for automotive, shipbuilding, and appliances.

3. Novelis – Specializes in flat-rolled aluminum for automotive and packaging.

4. Thyssenkrupp AG – Offers steel and stainless flat products for aerospace, construction, and industrial equipment.

5. Outokumpu – Known for stainless steel sheet and strip for food, chemical, and architecture sectors.

Production Challenges in Flat Strip & Sheet Metal Manufacturing

Atlantech Process: Flat Strip & Sheet Metal Processing Solutions

With decades of expertise in metal surface treatment, Atlantech Process offers equipment, brushes, and complete systems tailored to the needs of flat strip and sheet metal producers.

1. Surface Cleaning & Scale Removal

• Metal Surface Scale Cleaning Brushes efficiently remove hot mill scale, annealing oxides, and contaminants without damaging the substrate.

• Available in configurations for both wide sheet processing and narrow strip lines.

2. Satin & Decorative Finishing

• Non-Woven Abrasive Brushes deliver consistent satin, matte, or brushed finishes for aluminum, stainless steel, and other alloys.

• Ideal for architectural cladding, appliance panels, and decorative trims.

3. Wide & Narrow Strip Machines

• BM-Machine – heavy-duty machine for wide strip and sheet applications, featuring quick-change brush capability to minimize downtime.

• FL-Machine – designed for narrow strip processing with cantilevered brush shaft for rapid maintenance.

4. Edge Rounding & Deburring

• Atlantech’s brush technology integrates edge rounding and deburring into continuous strip and sheet lines—improving safety, coating adhesion, and component fit.

5. Complete Process Line Integration

• Process Line Technology from Atlantech offers turnkey solutions for cleaning, finishing, and deburring.

• Fully customizable for sheet widths, strip thicknesses, and metal type.

Why Flat Strip & Sheet Producers Choose Atlantech Process

• Proven Industry Expertise – Decades of global experience with both ferrous and non-ferrous production lines.

• Reduced Downtime – Quick-change brush systems keep production running.

• Consistent Quality – Automated brush dressing and precision feed control ensure repeatable results.

• Versatility – Solutions adaptable to carbon steel, stainless steel, aluminum, brass, and copper.

The Competitive Edge for Flat Strip & Sheet Producers

In today’s market, customers demand flawless finishes, precise tolerances, and fast delivery. Atlantech Process equips flat strip and sheet metal producers with the tools to meet those demands while improving operational efficiency. From cleaning mill scale off hot-rolled strip to creating architectural-grade satin finishes, Atlantech’s machines, brushes, and integrated systems deliver results that keep producers competitive.

Explore the full Atlantech Process product lineup here to see how your flat strip and sheet metal operations can achieve higher quality and throughput.

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1. Aurubis AG – Based in Hamburg, Germany, Aurubis is a premier copper recycler and producer. It specializes in converting metal concentrates, scrap, and residues into high-purity copper cathodes, as well as roll products such as wire rods, continuously cast profiles, and flat-rolled strips.Wikipedia

2. KME Group – A European heavyweight in copper manufacturing, KME produces rolled copper, tubing, bars, and cables. Fresh off acquiring Aurubis’s flat-rolled product facilities, KME now operates across Germany, France, Italy, and the U.S., with production approaching 200,000 metric tons annually.WikipediaClaight Corp

3. Xingye Alloy Materials Group – Headquartered in Zhejiang, China, Xingye supplies high-precision copper plates and strips, alongside copper-alloy variants like tin-phosphor bronze and brass. Their clientele spans electronics, automotive, and precision industries.Wikipedia

4. Yunnan Copper Company – China’s third-largest copper producer, headquartered in Kunming, Yunnan. It manufactures a wide array of copper products, including cathodes, rods, wires, and chemical derivatives like copper sulfate.Wikipedia

Other notable contributors include Wieland-Werke AG, a leading supplier of semi-finished copper alloys, and Mitsubishi Materials Corporation, which, besides copper, works across electronics and building materials.Claight CorpIQS Directory

Why Copper Strips Matter

Copper strips are thin, elongated forms of copper widely used in electrical, architectural, automotive, and electronics industries. Their exceptional electrical and thermal conductivity, paired with malleability, makes them ideal for actions like forming, strip processing, and precision finishing.IQS Directory

Manufacturing typically involves combustion or induction melting, followed by laboratory testing, hot rolling, cutting, and surface finishing to ensure strict dimensional and surface standards.copper-brass-bronze.com

Atlantech Process Technology (APT) & Copper Strip Processing

Copper strip producers must maintain extremely clean, oxide-free surfaces—crucial for downstream coatings, soldering, or further processing. That’s where Atlantech Process (APT) steps in.

Atlantech Strip Finishing Solutions

• Wide-Strip Brush Machine (BM-Machine)
  Tailored for strips 30–72″ wide, this modular system enables quick-change brushes, precision control, and minimal maintenance. It’s ideal for cleaning, finishing, descaling, and deburring copper strip lines.APT

• Narrow-Strip Brush Machine (FL-Machine)
  Engineered for strips 30″ or less, its compact cantilevered design optimizes cleaning and finishing in tight spaces. Multiple heads and automated brush-dressing ensure consistent results.APT

• Industrial Bristle Brushes
  APT’s bristle brushes are available with or without embedded abrasives. Their “scale-eater” design can deeply penetrate and lift contaminants while extending brush life—optimal for cleaning copper strips in continuous processing lines.APT

• Non-Woven Abrasive Brushes (Wide-Face)
  For precision surface finishing—whether satin finishing, oxide removal, or decorative finishes—APT’s non-woven abrasive brushes offer dynamic flexibility and continuous grit exposure, essential for fine copper strip working.APT+1

How APT Enhances Copper Strip Production

Copper strip producers—from Aurubis to Xingye and Yunnan Copper—rely on consistent, clean surfaces for optimal production. APT’s specialized C-strip brush machines, bristle systems, and non-woven abrasive options provide flexible, reliable solutions tailored to the unique challenges of copper processing lines.

Contact us for more information today!

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Wide-face Abrasive and Non-Abrasive Bristle Brushes in Your Cleaning Section 

• With both abrasive and non-abrasive Bristle Brushes, increasing the stiffness of the brush improves efficiency in your alkali and rinse sections, because the resistance to bending (Bristle elasticity) is increased.
•  Longer bristles are not the answer to longer life. Bristle stiffness and density are the two parameters to consider first.

Wide-face Abrasive, Non-woven Brushes 

• On high-strength steel, the challenge is to prepare the surface of certain alloys for subsequent coatings. For those applications, APT has a family of Non-Woven products.
• Along with the in-process brush dressing designed into our machines, we have designed non-woven brushes and impregnations that have drastically increased the life and aggressiveness of the brushes.

Brush Machines and Process Machines in Your Cleaning Line 

• When higher line speeds are desired, the next change would be to change the RPM.
• In-Process Brush Dressing is now built into everyone of our machines. What does this mean for you?You now have to change a brush only once–at the end of its usability! Gone are the days of brush dressing. (We’ve got video of this that’s being edited, but we’ll be uploading soon!)

Atlantech Process Technology, INC., is the industry leader in wide-face brushes and brush machines for the steel industry. Our next-generation brushes and machines use materials and technology that set the standard for productivity and precision.

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In our first bristle brush pro-tip, we demonstrated the importance of making sure to engage the tip of a bristle brush with a strip surface. This content piggybacks on the concept of bristle tip engagement and will bring you value from understanding how to get the best possible cleaning & finishing out of your bristle brush.

Let’s say your new bristle brush has arrived and has been installed in your brush machine. But once the cleaning process is initiated, a change occurs, and that is the effect of temperature on the strip and/or the coolant. This is particularly important if the bristle brush is operating in an alkali solution.

The behavior of a bristle filament on a brush is much like that of opening up a box of spaghetti and pulling out one stick of spaghetti. It is fairly solid and straight. But when I suspend it in a pot of hot water, that once rigid stick of spaghetti turns into a mush noodle. This is what happens to a bristle brush operating in a 140 + degree environment.

The environment a bristle brush is in, affects how the filament tip engages onto the surface of the strip. If the only variable you changed in your brush machine is temperature, you would see a huge difference in the cleanliness of the strip. We call this the spaghetti effect. Knowing that this is happening inside your brush machine is half the battle.

Potential Bristle “Spaghetti Effect” Issues

– Bristle Tip to Strip Surface Engagement. This is where the work is being done. With a limp bristle there is a chance that the bristle is hitting the strip surface on its side; thus no abrasive action is happening

– Bristle Control – The bristle may have lost partial stiffness and is now moving in a circular motion when it hits the strip surface. This will cause an irregular pattern

– Brush Being Crushed. If your load controller on your brush machine is seeking a certain kW value that is created from the friction of the brush on strip, there is a potential that your brush can be crushed. The filament loses its stiffness when heat is added to the process. If you calibrated the machine and process without the process heat present, your machine could be crushing the brush into the back up roll, as it is searching for the load point.

– Bristle Fall Out from the Brush – If you have to clean out your filter system too frequently and find bristles, this may be the cause.

APT has proprietary manufacturing processes and materials we use in our brush manufacturing and tool engineering designs. We build both brush machines and the brushes and have a thorough knowledge and experience of the Surface Cleaning Process.

If you are experiencing these issues, we may have a solution for you. Please Contact Us.

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• A brush that cleans a lot but does not last is not useful. 
• A long-lasting brush that hardly cleans is not interesting.

• A brush that cleans a lot and is long-lasting but very expensive is not of interest because its tone cost per Km is to high.

•  A brush with a high risk to collapse is not interesting, because it is not reliable and creates insecurity in the production process.

APT SCALE-EATER FILAMENTS

Each bristle is the combination of synthetic filaments grouped in a core, covered with micro-filaments and bonded with special resins. The process allows the production of a great variety of bristles with or without abrasive charge, with a specific design for each application. This increases the cleaning capacity and the lifetime of the brush.

More accurate brushing:

The micro-filaments cover and reach all parts of the steel sheet. The cleaning capacity and oil and steel particle removing improve by up to 50% in comparison to conventional bristles.

More energetic brushing:

The grouped bristles with bonded multi-filaments transfer a greater impact strength to the edge of the bristle and grind off capacity increases by up to 50%.

Long brush life:

The grouped bristles with bonded multi-filaments wear out slower and more uniformly, increasing the lifetime of the brushes between 25% and 100% depending on the application.

S – SERIES

Soft cleaning brush. Made with millions of ultra-fine bristles. Specially designed for cleaning, avoiding the risk of scratches on very sensitive surfaces and to remove superficial oil. Can be used with cold or hot water and in oil washer units.Applications: Specially indicated for Bright Annealing Lines (BAL) in stainless steel, aluminum, copper or brass and as well as for galvanized or aluminum and washing machines for the automotive stamping industry.

C & CX – SERIES

Cleaning brush made with a special mixture of ultra-fine and non-abrasive bristles. Designed to obtain maximum cleanliness without scratching the surface of the steel. For cleaning cold rolled plates which have oil, grease and metal particles and/or chemical residues. Can be used in cold or hot water and with alkaline or oil solution.

Applications: In Electrolytic Cleaning Lines (ECL) as well as in cleaning sections of Continuous Annealing Lines (CAL, BAL), Metallic Coating Lines (HDGL, CGL, EGL, ETL), Organic Coating Lines (OCL) and in Pickling and Annealing Lines (CAPL, CPL ).

A – SERIES

Brush for abrasive cleaning formed with bristles with abrasive charges and microfilaments. Specially designed to achieve a great and deep cleanliness on cold rolled steel or “to activate the surface” before organic or metallic coatings. They are also used to remove deep dirt in metallic rolls like backup rolls, deflector rolls, table rolls and working rolls. Can be used in alkaline hot solutions.

Applications: Cleaning and surface treatment on galvanized lines (CGL, HDGL), Electro-galvanizing lines (EGL), Electrolytic Tinning Lines (ETL). Also for deflector and buck up rolls clean- ing in CRM or Skinpass units.

A 80 – SERIES

A highly abrasive bristle brush for a deep cleaning, steel and scale remover previously broken or reduced by acid. Should be used with neutral water.

Applications: Pickling Lines (PL, CPL) and the Annealing and Pickling Lines (HAPL, CAPL) stainless steel and carbon steel.

If you have any questions, please send me an email or call with your question, and we will get you taken care of right away.

Happy Brushing!

Best Regards,

David Thiemann – Director

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Did you ever take a look at your finished metal strip surface and throw your hands up because you can’t figure out why it’s not getting all the dirt, smut, and iron fines off the surface?

You probably thought there was something wrong with the machine or that it was time to adjust the brush machine parameters? Or could it be an issue with the brush?

It could be the load, but more than likely it’s the industrial scrubber brush. If your strip isn’t getting clean, the brush in the machine probably isn’t the best one for the job.

Those of us who have been in the business for years remember when we had only a few options for brushes. 

But today we have hundreds to choose from. 

There’s no reason for strip to come out with dirt, iron fines or smut. 

Most of the problems we see don’t have anything to do with the machine—and it’s not a problem with load. It’s the brush. 

Take a look at our bristle brush selection on our website to get an idea of your choices. 

Even easier is to give us a call to discuss your application, parameters, current issues, and what your manufacturing goals are, and we can talk about how to get cleaner strip faster just by changing the brush.

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Well, APT actually has figured out a way, but many metal strip and coil producing foundries still change the large heavy-duty industrial scrubber brushes the old way, which puts them at risk for bending the shaft or damaging the bearing blocks and/or journal ends.

Once the scrubber brush shaft is bent, maintaining a consistent uniform metal strip surface in the process line cleaning section by removing grease, iron fines, dirt, oil, and smut from the strip surface will be a huge challenge.

The brush extraction process developed years ago uses the factory overhead crane to remove the old scrubber brush, shaft, and bearing blocks and to lower the new scrubber brush into place. But you can see from this video that when the crane removes its support on the shaft side not supported by the brush machine, 5000+ pounds of weight are placed on only 5″ of the shaft!

That’s too much pressure. So the shaft has a tendency to bend, leaving you with issues to repair with the bearings, seals, and journal.

Straightening out a heavy-duty shaft requires so serious machinery and not that many people have gotten really good at repairing this, but there’s no way to get back the time and resources it takes to fix the problem. 

The best thing to do is AVOID the problem in the first place. And that’s where Atlantech Process can help.

At APT, our first priority is improving your strip cleaning section brush machine processes. We want to optimize your line so your customers are happy and your competition is not. 

Our quick brush-change process lets you replace a wide-face, 2-ton industrial scrubber brush in under 15 minutes. You need only one person to do it AND there’s no risk of bending the shaft.

Look at this video to see what I’m talking about. Remember when it used to take almost the whole day and two people to change a brush of this size? Not anymore …. 

Advancements in design and material have really changed the game. And we want you to get the benefits of APT’s innovative brushes and machines. 

We’ll even show you how to save money on buying, using, and disposing of chemicals so you can afford a new brush machine by reducing your operating costs.

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Imagine how your productivity and outcomes will improve with a new machine!

Stop wasting time with frequent and repetitive maintenance work that is holding you back.

Atlantech Process Technology, Inc. saves customers money and time by delivering an abrasive process solution for flat metal strip producers. We understand it takes more than a new brush to get the best results. That’s why we listen to our client’s goals, evaluate their current software and line process, and provide complete solutions that deliver the results they expect.

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AND SURFACE CLEANING & FINISHING

This is a subject that many users would like to forget, rather than be reminded of!

Having built cleaning section equipment for over 60 years, we have looked at many process lines and listened to scrubber issues from maintenance, operations, and quality team members and have taken a fresh approach at what a brush scrubber should do.

Here are the top items:

1. Grooving of brush from different strip width – a need for in-process dressing
2. Variable brush configuration for required task
3. Less maintenance, more control and feedback
4. Longer life brushes and fast (less than 30min) brush changes

Our task is to integrate the best machine with the best brush type for optimum results.

We have designed two types of metal strip cleaning section brush machine scrubbers:

HEAVY-DUTY MILL APPLICATIONS – 35” Strip and Wider

MEDIUM DUTY FOR SERVICE CENTER INCLINE APPLICATIONS: 35” Strip & Narrower

The brush machines matched with the optimum scrubber brush will mechanically remove all the surface iron fines, smut, and oxides. 

What to do about the residual oil and emulsion on the strip surface?

Traditionally alkali chemical concentrations have been used in the brush machine and as spray/dip pre-cleaners. This means that the alkali solution certain reoccurring overhead cost with the purchase, use, and disposal of the chemicals.

With our CHEMICAL FREE, Hot water – High-Pressure Precleaner and closed-loop filtration technology, we can remove approximately 85 – 90% of the surface oils. If this is not satisfactory for your application process, then alkali can be added to the following brush machine. Removing all that surface oil before the strip enters the alkali brush section, means that you will be able to use each batch much longer, reducing the overhead cost associated with the chemical process.

FILTRATION SYSTEM

Everyone that has worked closely with the cleaning section know that filtration is usually a huge issue. Most of the systems we have seen on lines today are struggling with filtration issues. APT-Wesero has put much focus into our filtration systems. We have to be really good at getting the unwanted surface contaminants off, as well as, really good at keeping them off. Filtration is the key to keeping the oils and iron fines out of the cleaning section process.

In summary, we should talk should your cleaning section need a modular upgrade or replacing, and a requirement for a cleaning strip surface.

Thanks in advance for the opportunity!

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Today’s customers want to increase cleaning and line speed in existing (or new!) cleaning equipment. And the problem is conventional cleaning sections/lines have mechanical limitations. 

Current line configurations don’t have free space to add new degreasing, electrolytic or brushing units, and line modification costs are very high. 

APT developed a solution to increase your process line’s surface cleaning performance, using cleaning section scrubber brush rolls filled with APT Multi-filament bristles. 

Both abrasive and non-abrasive filaments

The wide-face scrubber brushes used today in the cleaning section are the same brushes used 30 years ago. 

APT’s new-generation APT Multi-filament is engineered by wrapping multiple extruded, synthetic filaments into a “single” bristle and coating them to ensure maximum stability, longer brush life, and cleaner strip. 

These abrasive cleaning section scrubber brushes radically improve the speed and effectiveness of the cleaning strip.

What if—without changing any configuration in your machine— and without adding anything to the degreasing or brushing section, you could get a more consistent annealing and galvanized coating on your metallic coils?

What if all it took was a new brush?

• No huge expense. 
• No new equipment.
• No reconfiguration that requires more space.

APT Multi-filament brushes clean better.  

They last longer.  

They work faster.

No more frustration because the brush softens from the heat, breaks down from chemicals, and leaves a print on the surface instead of removing the grease and debris.

We’ve seen so many benefits from APT Multi-filament brushes:

• They can be used with any existing machine without modifications.
• They can be installed with a hammer and a knocking bar.
• Within 30 minutes, a APT Multi-filament brush can be up and running in your current machine.
• Special jobs are no problem because the material in the APT Multi-filament brush is manufactured for maximum performance.
• The bristles hold up better to chemicals and heat.

APT Multi-filament brushes descale faster and leave metal surfaces smoother.

APT Multi-filament brushes are engineered to your application, properly designed 

using brush filament specifications and parameters for your process and application.

Strip comes out cleaner, faster than ever before.

Finally, it’s possible for you to get dramatic improvements in your cleaning section with little investment.

• REDUCE BREAKAGE
• EXTEND BRUSH LIFE
• CLEAN STRIP BETTER
• MAXIMIZE SURFACE CONTACT
• INCREASE GRINDING CAPACITY
• OPTIMIZE BRUSHING FORCE
• OPTIMIZE CLEANING SECTION
• RESISTANT TO CHEMICALS

FOR ABRASIVE AND NON-ABRASIVE CLEANING AND FINISHING  FLAT METAL STRIP, COIL, SHEET APPLICATIONS

Wide face brushes built using single filament just don’t have the cleaning power needed to meet today’s quality demands.

That’s because single filament brushes have the abrasive applied only at the tip of the bristle. When the bristles get compressed more than 3mm, they collapse, and the sides of the bristle come into contact with the surface of the strip.

There is no abrasive grit in the side wall of the bristle filament, only on the tip. The traditional bristle filament can not remove iron fines, oxides, scale, dirt, debris; when they are folded over on the side

There is no abrasive grit in the side wall of the bristle filament, only on the tip. 

The traditional bristle filament can not remove iron fines, oxides, scale, dirt, debris; when they are folded over on the side. The strip isn’t clean, and the life of the brush is shortened dramatically. 

APT Multi-filament brushes solve the problem with durable bristles engineered using multiple lines of filament.

The Magic is in the Bristle

MULTIFIL brushes are made from thousands of strands of microfilament. Conventional bristles use a single type of filament. And here’s another important difference: the bristles in a conventional brush are crimped, which is great for improving the distribution of the brushes, but it reduces the force the brush is able to handle. And we all know what happens next: the brush doesn’t clean as well, so we compensate by increasing the load. This crushes the bristles more, and make them completely ineffective. They can’t clean when they are crushed.

But each bristle in a multifil brush is made of thousands of pieces of microfilament carefully chosen for the required job. Those strands of microfilaments are wrapped together with a synthetic casing, which strengthens the bristles so they can retain their shape longer. They hold up to pressure better. And they don’t fatigue as quickly under heat. 

You see the difference? 

These are not loose bristles scraping the surface of the metal and increasing the possibility of leaving marks on the sheet. Firm, supported, confined bristles make unified contact with the surface. The result is obvious: debris is removed consistently leaving a smoother, cleaner finish.

It’s a game-changer.

If you haven’t already, take a look at our Multifil brochures so you can get a better idea of the types of brushes available. It’s definitely worth the investment to add Multifil brushes to your line. 

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