Member Profile
End to End Solutions for Investment Casters Our History
local, family-owned distributors to our current 400+ employees in 40 locations strategically located throughout the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. Legacy companies such as Grand Northern Products and Abrasive Products have been long-time suppliers into investment casting facilities across the United States and around the world.
S Goal is Simple
SurfacePrep is the largest national network of regional distributors of high- quality abrasive products, specialty ceramics, metal casting consumables, surface finishing equipment and production services. The companies of GNPGraystar and SurfacePrep combine to provide the only TRUE end-to-end solutions provider for the investment casting industry, offering a full range of materials for stuccos, flours and refractories on the front end to abrasives,
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urfacePrep can trace its roots back to Indianapolis in 1956 and Grand Rapids in 1981, growing from
equipment and finishing systems on the back end. Our goal is to help companies produce the highest quality castings possible; identifying and eliminating bottle necks, increasing yields, reducing scrap, and automating operations. We provide a much-needed industry source of metal casting and finishing expertise, supporting and driving savings initiatives through the entire facility.
Recent Developments SurfacePrep has become the preeminent provides for each and every finishing step in an investment casting foundry. A new development has been establishing two Lenox-authorized weld centers in our Phoenix, AZ and Dallas, TX locations for bandsaw blades.
Customers can
walk-in or email the specs on their bandsaw blades made to their exact needs in minutes instead of weeks. Our equipment capabilities span from pressure blast systems for mechanical shell removal or surface finishing of castings to superpolishing or vibratory finishing to precision tolerances. In
Above: SurfacePrep offers a variety of abrasives.
between, we offer part washing and cleaning equipment, cutting tools and dust collections systems, and even pneumatic & electric tools for bonded and coated abrasive finishing. A new area SurfacePrep is exploring is the reclamation of material waste streams that historically go to landfills but may have residual value in other areas.
Looking Ahead Over the last 18 months, SurfacePrep has expanded beyond our North American
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Ceramic materials for shells as well as abrasives and equipment for precision castings finishing (blast, sand, vibe, polish and more).
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