Company Description
Keep your nose to the grindstone and you'll surely succeed at Saint-Gobain Abrasives. The company makes and distributes bonded, coated, and superabrasive products to cut, shape, and polish materials such as ceramics, metals, plastics, and glass. Expanding its refining mix, the company reaches all types of industrial, construction, homebuilding, automotive, and do-it-yourself markets. The lineup of grinding wheels (more than 250,000), from sandpaper on up to diamond-based sharpeners, is sold under brand names Norton, Carborundum, Merit, and Winter. Saint-Gobain Abrasives is one of eight subsidiaries comprising the High Performance Materials sector of French manufacturing giant Compagnie de Saint-Gobain.