At American Grinding & Machine Company, our grinding services set the industry standard. We operate one of the largest grinding shops in the United States and serve customers all over the country. Our facility houses multiple manual, PLC, and CNC-driven flat rotary and reciprocating style grinding systems, allowing us to handle everything from small to large, straightforward to complex grinding projects. We have a highly trained and stable workforce who takes pride in their work and achieve exacting standards. As leaders in our field, we focus on quality and delivering products and services that exceed customer expectations.
Along with Blanchard rotary, surface, and angle grinding, our grinding capabilities include way, lathe bed, shear bed, radius grinding, etc. We grind all types of material, such as stainless steel, hardened tool steel, cast aluminum, and high-temperature alloys. Also, we grind copper, bronze, brass, and even plastic and rubber. With our fleet of different grinders, we can create surfaces to 32 µin in parts measuring as large as 192" long x 55" wide x 63" high and 154" in diameter. Our lifting capacity is 10 tons.
On the shop floor, we perform continuous quality checks throughout the grinding process. We also carry out a final inspection before the job is shipped to ensure products comply with critical tolerance and surface specifications. Our turnaround is fast, and our pricing is competitive. To learn more about our precision grinding services or to request a quote, contact us directly.
Serving industry since 1941, American Grinding & Machine Company offers freehand welding services of the highest caliber. Our welding team leverages MIG, stick, and continuous wire feed welding technologies to create high-integrity welds in hot rolled steel, stainless steel, and structural welding applications. With their unparalleled expertise, our welders read and interpret the blueprints and drawings and then plan the layout and procedures necessary for the welding project to be successful. We have the knowledge to handle the most challenging welding jobs on time.
Detail-oriented, our welders chose the correct fillers and welding technique to ensure the highest quality. Welders ensure pieces are correctly aligned and held in place with clamps or fixtures. While welding, they make continuous visual inspections to ensure the joints are clean and defect-free. Welders also carry out tests to ensure there are no flaws in the welded workpiece. We can shot or grit blast the seams to provide a finished appearance and grind down the seams to precise tolerances. Our welding services are ISO certified and compliant with AWS, SME, and TMA standards.
As a full-service shop, we offer additional services, such as thermal and vibratory stress relief, painting and plating, and more. Our welding services are tailored for small volume work, primarily for Tier 2 and Tier 3 applications in the automation, automotive, aircraft, and food industries. To learn more about our welding capabilities or to make an inquiry, contact us directly.
At American Grinding, we offer fabrication services to build structures and assemblies, primarily for the automation, automotive, aircraft, and food production industries. We operate a technology-driven fabrication department and produce products to high standards. Our steel warehouse is always well stocked with plate, bar stock, I-beams, angles, and tubing, allowing us to get to work immediately on most fabrication projects. We use computer-aided design technologies and diligent planning and scheduling to optimize both product and process.
Materials we fabricate include stainless steel, tool steel, HRS, and other metals and alloys. We have 10-ton lifting capacity for maneuvering large-scale fabrications up to 14' x 10', and our fabrication staff has a broad mix of metalworking skills. Inside our fabrication department, we operate saw cutters and a CNC flame cutter capable of powering through plate measuring up to 14" thick. Our assets also include a shot-blasting booth for cleaning, strengthening, or polishing metal, and thermal stress relief ovens, and vibratory stress relief equipment for stabilizing metals and large weldments. We have machining equipment to create holes, key slots, and other features, and an extensive grinding department for surface finishing. We also have facilities for painting and plating.
With our quality-oriented fabrication strategies, we comply with the most exacting tolerances and standards. Every step of the fabrication process includes numerous test and inspection checkpoints to ensure the highest accuracy at all stages of the build. Our focus is always on delivering excellence in quality and customer satisfaction. With our diverse range of capabilities, we are a source for a wide range of metal fabrication needs. Contact us directly to learn how our fabrication services can benefit your next project.
As a leadership company in the area of precision grinding, at American Grinding & Machine, we are a technical authority on abrasives. We provide custom abrasive solutions through our wholly-owned subsidiary, Interstate Abrasives, one of the largest abrasive distributors in the Midwest. Interstate Abrasives represents over thirty different manufacturers of abrasive products and related items, and we leverage their capacity to provide custom engineered abrasive solutions for specialty applications.
Our wide-ranging product line includes all types of grinding wheels and abrasive types for surface, centerless, cylindrical, creep feed, and Blanchard rotary grinding. We supply vitrified, resin, rubber, and epoxy bond wheels and all types of coated products. Diamond wheels, diamond rolls, CBN wheels, and roller dressers can all be made to custom specifications. Cutting tools, coolant, and other industrial supplies are also available.
Customers can tap into the knowledge of our expert technical sales team. While at customer facilities, they offer their application engineering expertise to pinpoint the most appropriate solution for removing materials with precision and at a precise pace while withstanding rigorous use. We provide custom packaging and offer local one-day delivery in the Chicagoland area, and we can ship anywhere in the United States. For more information about custom abrasives or to make an inquiry, contact us directly.
At American Grinding & Machine Company, we manufacture our product line of BRUTE custom machine bases for any kind of fixed industrial equipment. Each base is made to order with customized features and fabricated with exact precision. By combining our high-tech production capabilities with our decades of experience, we offer very competitive pricing and remarkably fast turnaround. Our heavy-duty machine bases support industrial equipment and robotic devices in plants and factories all over the world.
We have several standard models to choose from that we customize to align with application-specific requirements. All machine bases feature top plates Blanchard ground to a flatness of ±0.002" per linear foot. Along with drilling and tapping mounting pads, we dress all welds, treat finished surfaces with a rust inhibitor, and shot blast and paint unfinished surfaces.
We build machine bases with an abundance of optional features. Customers can choose aluminum or stainless steel top, and we can Mattison grind surfaces to incredibly close tolerances. We build bases with side panels, doors, and shelves and integrate cooling troughs and lifting holes or slots. Casters and forklift tubes can be added for mobility, and we accommodate all types of painted, lacquered, and enamel finishes.
With our attention to detail and quality assurance that involves continuous inspection in all stages of the manufacturing cycle, we ensure that every machine base exhibits the highest quality. Our deliverable includes protective packaging for either domestic or overseas shipment. We build one-of-a-kind machine bases, and we also fill large volume orders. To learn more about our industry-leading BRUTE heavy-duty machine bases or request a quote, contact us directly.
As one of the world’s premier manufacturers of machine bases, at American Grinding & Machine, we build the two-tier unit highlighted here for a customer in the automation industry. Our machine bases are characterized by their superior quality and outstanding craftsmanship. With our decades of experience, we bring an unrivaled level of insight and skill into the design and structural manufacturing of these devices.
This specific machine base features a relatively large-scale two-tier design with overall measurements of 60" long x 84" wide x 35-5/8" high. Primary operations consisted of cutting the hot rolled steel elements for the assembly and welding them together. With our 148" Blanchard rotary grinder, we produced finish work to extremely close flatness tolerances and a 63 micro finish. We shot blasted and painted the unfinished areas. With our lifting capacity, we could easily maneuver this heavy workpiece throughout the different areas of our shop for treatment.
The customer supplied us with a 2D CAD drawing that served as the basis for our fabrication processes. For quality assurance, we verified the dimensional accuracy to ensure it matched the specifications. The machine base exhibits exceptional rigidity and rock-solid dimensional and thermal stability.
With our versatile capabilities, we offered the customer very favorable pricing and the convenience of end-to-end manufacturing. We delivered the final one-of-a-kind workpiece on a four-week schedule and shipped to its service location in Indiana. For more detailed information about this machine base or the processes we used for fabrication, contact us directly.
The weldment highlighted here is a machine base we built for an automation application. It is based on our standard M200 heavy-duty machine base design that we modified to application-specific customer requirements. As one of the largest flat grinding shops in the United States, we have the facilities to fabricate outsized and heavy workpieces to rigid quality standards.
Manufacturing unique weldments such as this one is something we do on an everyday basis. We have developed an approach that enables us to work quickly and strategically, so our rates are very competitive. This particular project involved producing a total of 14 units, that with diligent planning, we accomplished in just five weeks.
This unit features a 1-3/4" thick top plate with distinctively machined features and hole patterns. We Blanchard ground the top plate to ±0.002" flatness tolerances and a 63 micro surface that is standard with all of our machine bases. All elements were constructed from hot rolled steel, and we painted the welded framing supporting the top plate with a bright blue color. The finished unit features dimensions of 54" in length x 101" in width x 35-1/2" in height.
As part of our services, we developed custom packaging that protected the machine bases during shipment to the customer in Louisiana. They were very impressed with the quality and durability and have since retained us for additional work. To learn more about this heavy-duty custom machine base or the processes we used for manufacturing it, contact us directly.
With our versatility, American Grinding & Machine manufactures both large and small format workpieces. This project highlights grinding a unit that occupies a compact footprint, and it showcases our small Blanchard grinding capabilities. It also demonstrates our ability to react quickly to accommodate tight time constraints - we Blanchard ground, inspected, and delivered a total of 36 pieces in five days to a local customer for an agricultural industry application.
This project involved grinding a high nickel alloy casting. Our main task consisted of shaping and smoothing small mounting ports. Since hard nickel alloy is a tough material, it required careful consideration of tooling, abrasives, and grinding forces. We processed these castings, which featured approximate dimensions of 2-7/8" long x 13-5/8" wide x 15-3/4" high, using our 42" rotary Blanchard grinder, a CNC-driven machine ideal for intricate grinding tasks. Specifically, we ground both the top and bottom of the workpiece to 2.440" ±0.015" and a 63 micro finish. The inspection consisted of micrometer measurement to confirm dimensional accuracy.
The customer appreciated our job well done, and we continue to do business together regularly. With our well-established expertise, they know they can rely on us to maintain high standards of quality. For more detailed information about this small Blanchard grinding project or any of our comprehensive manufacturing capabilities, contact us directly.
At American Grinding & Machine, we manufacture a product line of BRUTE machine bases in various standard models. We also make modifications to our traditional designs to accommodate application-specific requirements. The machine base highlighted here is a one-off of our M100 heavy-duty model designed and built for a material pallet handling application in the steel industry.
This custom machine base features overall dimensions of 27" wide x 144" long x 25-3/4" high. Constructed from hot-rolled steel that we keep an ample inventory of in our warehouse, we cut the top from a one-inch thick steel plate. The custom top was Blanchard ground to our standard flatness tolerances of ±0.002" per foot and a 63 micro finish. We also cut and welded the supporting framework using our standard M100 machine base design and painted it a bright color for safety code compliance. This base has the rigidity and stability to fulfill the customer's end-use needs. Manufacturing it as a custom top with a standard base proved faster and far more cost-effective than a full custom solution.
With our integrated production capabilities, we manufactured, inspected, and delivered a total of four units within a four to five-week timeframe. The customer was impressed with both the quality of the machine bases and our quick delivery. To learn more about our standard model machine bases and the available customization options, contact us directly. We welcome the opportunity to provide a quote.
