Automotive
Driving Laps Around The Competition
From powertrain components, to body-in-white and beyond, automotive manufacturers are accountable for producing a high volume of parts within increasingly higher form and finish tolerances. Whether cutting, grinding, shaping or finishing, Norton reps, product managers, and application engineers have the knowledge, industry-leading products and OEM relationships to ensure you’re producing parts free from vibration, chatter, burn, or residual stress.
Automotive Powertrain Components
From ID to OD grinding, centerless to double disc grinding and final finishing, Norton can work with you to match the right product to your application. Talk to Norton for a custom recommendation for your camshaft, crankshaft, fuel injection, piston ring, or connecting rod manufacturing needs.
Automotive Body
From body-in-white to defect removal, Norton products move beyond the engine to the body and exterior of the car for consistent, quality finishes.
Electric Vehicles
We provide one of the world’s most extensive portfolios of precision abrasives for grinding and finishing electric vehicle powertrain components. Explore our electric vehicle page to learn more.
Featured Automotive Products
Vitron7
Achieve lower grinding power and longer wheel life with the cool grind of Vitron7.
Century45
Produce more perfect parts with less time, cost, inventory, safety incidents, and downtime.
Finium
Eliminate a step and get your desired finish fast in precision microfinishing applications.
Blaze A995
Get a superior finish every time without the rework and endless of consumption of discs.
MeshPower
Provides virtually dust free sanding for a cleaner work environment and a better finish.
Blaze Rapid Blend
Eliminate rough spots and ridges on stainless steel and soft metal surfaces.
Automotive Resources
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Norton Automotive Body-in-White Market Catalog - 8883
Norton offers products for the body-in-white stage of the automobile manufacturing process, from fiber discs, flap discs, belts and non-woven products for rough grinding to paper, film and mesh discs ...
5 Reasons to Upgrade to Vit-cBN
Learn when to upgrade your cylindrical grinding process and what factors to consider when making the switch from a conventional vitrified wheel to a vitrified cubic boron nitride, or vit-cBN, wheel.
Removing Roadblocks to Optimizing Newly Installed Grinding Processes
Use the strategies in William Plager’s article, published in May 2016 CTE Magazine, to remove roadblocks in the grinding processes involved in high volume lines producing complex parts.
Grinding Replaces Machining in Automotive Applications
Trends toward smaller pieces with higher form/finish tolerances have manufacturers considering grinding to remove metal in automotive parts manufacturing applications. Advances in abrasive grinding ma...
Automating the Finishing Touch
Converting from greaseless abrasive compounds to non-woven technology for structured surface finishes offers benefits beyond consistent, repeatable texture.
Norton Abrasive Process Solutions Flyer - 8930
Whether you’re researching and testing new abrasives for improved quality and throughput, considering a new process, or looking to automate an existing process, the Norton Abrasive Process Solutions (...
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Non-Woven 101
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The Importance of P-Graded Abrasives
When trying to achieve the smoothest, most consistent finish using paper abrasives, it's important t...
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