Swift and Whitmore Ltd
Swift Abrasive Wheels was founded in 1968 and has since grown into the UK’s largest independent suppliers of industrial abrasives. Swift Abrasive Wheels controls 96% of the shares in Phoenix Abrasive Wheel Company, Manchester, a profile of which is covered on page 2 below. The customer base covers the entire industrial spectrum from small welding supply companies to aerospace, automotive and the largest steel manufacturers and foundry groups in Britain and overseas. Swift Abrasive Wheels supplies large cut off wheels and hot pressed, high-pressure wheels used in the steel industry.
Swift Abrasive Wheels carry stocks to a value exceeding £1million and as an independent company we have no ties to individual suppliers giving us the ability to source none stock items from the manufacturer giving the best price and availability. We operate our own transport fleet, allowing prompt delivery with the majority of orders being completed within 24 hours. Swift Abrasive Wheels are a BS EN ISO 9002:2000 registered company.
Swift Abrasive Wheels team of sales engineers have many years of experience in the field and are available to visit your workplace to discuss your grinding applications and advise you of any improvements that might be made to your productivity and wheel performance.
Swift Abrasive Wheels aim to provide you with the product and technical back up to see your projects through from conception to completion. Swift Abrasive Wheels are committed to quality, service and reliability and have experience as Tier 1 suppliers to very large multi site global industrial companies.
Our Products
Swift Abrasive Wheels' product range includes:
- Vitrified and resin bonded wheels for precision grinding including creep feed, centreless, cylindrical, gear, thread and roll grinding.
- Vitrified and CBN wheels for tool room and precision grinding, including a large selection of cup, saucer and surface grinding wheels.
- Hot Pressed - high-speed billet grinding wheels primarily for use in the steel industry.
- Resinoid bonded wheels primarily used in the foundry and forging industry.
- Dressing tools and stars for foundry and pedestal wheels.
Reinforced and non-reinforced cutting and grinding discs in a wide variety of sizes including:
- Straight cutting discs up to 2000mm diameter
- Large depressed centre cutting discs up to 610mm
- Small depressed centre cutting discs for hand held operations
The Swiftflex range of cutting and grinding discs has been manufactured to meet the needs of today's highly competitive market. Combining premium abrasive grain and resin bond, the Swiftflex range of discs enables fast and efficient cutting, through its high quality performance.
Discs are available for metal and stone and are packaged and labelled for easy identification
- Mounted points and tungsten carbide burrs for deburring operations using high-speed portable tools.
Swift Abrasive Wheels control 96% of the shares in Phoenix Abrasive wheel Company
Email [email protected]
Web www.phoenix-abrasives.co.uk
The Phoenix Abrasive Wheel Company was formed in 1968 following the takeover and closure of Mitchells Grinding Wheel Company of Manchester, the oldest grinding wheel company in the world, originally founded in 1862.The directors reformed “Phoenix” as born from the ashes and has now grown steadily over the years. Phoenix is now one of the leading manufacturers of resin bonded grinding wheels in the UK. Phoenix grinding wheels are designed, manufactured and tested in accordance with the European Safety Standard E.N.12413 (safety requirements for bonded abrasives) and quality management system (ISO9001 – 2000). Phoenix Abrasives is a member of the British Abrasives Federation.
Products
High speed resin-bonded grinding wheels for fettling
Phoenix Abrasive fettling wheels are available in sizes to suit all applications
Floor stand and swing frame machines
These large wheels are typically between 400 x 50 x 150mm and 915 x 100 x 304.8mm. Phoenix manufacturing expertise has developed a robust wheel to encounter some of the most demanding requirements in this industry sector. Phoenix market leadership in this market segment sets the standards of performance.
Portable Fettling Wheels
These wheels are especially designed to withstand the most punishing applications asked for them. Often used to remove moulding lines and flashes on foundry products and heavy metal fabrications. Wheels are produced in diameters of 100, 150 and 200mm to suit all portable machines and their fixings.
Inserted Nut Cones + Plugs
Sometimes referred to as “Pot Ball” these inserted nut cones are extensively used in foundries and metal producing plants. They are tough and durable to withstand the rigours of application and are available in a full range of sizes and grades. Phoenix Cones and Plugs are manufactured with blinds threaded holes and are extensively used in foundries and forges. They are tough and durable to withstand the rigors of application.
Roll Grinding Wheels
From the range of abrasive products there is one universally recognised leader ‘Phoenix Starlite’. Steeped in history and experience this range of Roll Grinding wheels provides an abrasive solution for all roll grinding applications.
The ‘Phoenix-Starlite’ wheels will be found throughout the world grinding long, large diameter rolls in steel and aluminium rolling mills, paper mills, rubber and plastic processing plants. Employing up-to-date abrasive technology, wheel grades are formulated using a proven range of soft, medium or hard bond structures – Organic or Shellac.
Abrasive grit combinations of Aluminium Oxide, Silicon Carbide and Ceramic grains are selected for optimum wheel performance given the parameters of Roll finish requirements. Roll grinding wheels incorporating the higher cost ceramic grain will produce a marked improvement in productivity and G-ratios. End users report longer wheel life and the capability to rough and finish with the same wheel.
Fine Grit Products
Phoenix Abrasives speciality is the production of organic bond abrasive wheels and within this section of the bonded abrasive market has particular expertise in the manufacture of Fine Grit wheels, sticks and blocks for precision grinding operations.
Strict quality control procedures are adhered to in the making of fine grit products. Manufacture is undertaken within a controlled environment to avoid coarse grit contamination as these wheels incorporate micro grits from 180grit through to 1000grit. Depending upon the grinding / polishing finish required the wheel will be made either cold pressed, warm or hot pressed.
Phoenix produce a wide range of end use products fine grit wheels . For example, blade- edge polishing, medical needles, automotive, aerospace and other specialist industries. Phoenix also manufacture an extensive range of abrasive sticks and blocks.
Segmental Surface Grinding
Vertical or horizontal spindle machines fitted with resin bonded abrasives segments are the optimum method of achieving a heavy, fast and economical way of stock removal.
The number of segments per set is dependant on the overall diameter of the segmental arrangement and the capacity of the machine. Segments are produced in a variety of shapes and sizes to suit the design of the machine. – Lumsden, Churchill, Snow H1/H2, B1/B2 1C/2C Gockle and many other shapes.
Nut Inserted & Plated Wheels
Type 35: Cemented or clamped Disc, Type 36: Inserted Nut Disc & Type 37: Inserted disc Cylinder are produced for the following grinding machines; Bennett’s, Diskus and Giustina for wheels within the diameter range 200mm to 915mm with various nut patterns for grinding: Springs, Cylinder heads, Brake Discs, Piston Rings, Valves, Bearing races, Bearing roller end, Pliers, spanners and sockets.
Centreless & Centre Grinding
Phoenix Abrasives has gained a world reputation for providing grinding wheels of high quality and premium performance for centreless & centre grinding applications with its Phoenix and STARLITE brands. These organic bond wheels made at the Manchester factory using tough, premium abrasive with a superior organic resin bond system produce wheels delivering the benefits of high “G” ratios and are excellent for heavy duty grinding as they are more forgiving than the vitrified bond counterparts. Resin bond wheels are ideal for stock removal, long irregular components and faster through feed grinding
Abrasive Compounds
C Series = SILICON CARBIDE. Fast cutting and suitable for all hardened steels where a rolling and sliding action perform the lapping.
K Series = ALUMINIUM OXIDE. Suitable for soft steels where lapping is performed by a rolling action and also suitable for other metals where lapping is carried out by a rolling action.
H Series = ALUMINIUM OXIDE – SOFT. The finer grits provide a smooth action with minimum stock removal and more of a polishing agent.
2A Series = ALUMINIUM OXIDE – VERY SOFT. The very fine grits deliver a polished finish with no stock removal.
Arcorundum Grinding Wheel Company
Phoenix own Arcorundum Grinding Wheel Company Limited, a specialist producer of grinding segments for Lumsden, Churchill, Snow and other surface grinding machines. Arcorundum was founded in 1905 and is the main specialist producer of these products in the UK.
Swift Abrasives Limited T/A Naylors
This company based in Hyde, Manchester commenced trading in March 2007 from the assets of Naylors Abrasives who have been producing abrasives for over 130 years. It is against this background of experience and knows how that Swift Abrasives Limited has developed to become the leading British independent manufacturer of coated abrasives. In an increasingly quality conscious market, Swift Abrasives Limited continue to explore today’s latest developments in resins and materials and apply them to the production of coated abrasives products for new and ever more demanding applications.
Swift Abrasives Limited commitment to quality and innovation is represented by the latest investment in computer systems, the continual improvement of manufacturing facilities and the provision of essential stocks to meet customers’ requirements
Coated abrasives including a range manufactured at our conversion plant in Manchester:
- Linishing belts
- Fibre discs
- Flap discs
- Paper sheets
- Cloth rolls
- Paper rolls
- Self adhesive discs
- Velcro discs
- Spirabands
- Hand pads
- Convolute wheels
Telephone 0161 367 1010
Fax 0161 367 1012
Email [email protected]
Web www.naylors-abrasives.co.uk
If you have any enquiries, please contact Janette Tierney or Roger Whitmore on 0121 557 8337