Buffing and polishing services perform smoothing operations that change a metal's surface appearance. These operations can be for aesthetic and/or functional purposes

Polishers and buffing machines are used to impart a fine (low Ra) surface finish on the exterior of a part. To improve surface finish, they use use abrasive grain slurries or compounds on buffs, bobs, cloth naps, laps, very fine grit nonwovens, and coated abrasives

Finishing compounds are used to improve surface finish or flatness. They often consist of fine abrasives in slurry, bar, powder or paste forms.

Plastic machining services fashion or fabricate parts and components out of various plastic and thermoplastic materials

Sanders and sanding machines are used to finish wood, plastic or composites through the application of abrasive belts, discs or sheets

Specialty grinding and finishing machines include specialized equipment for specific applications such as thread grinding, substrate planarization and optics manufacturing

Abrasives and abrasive products are used to remove surface materials such as metal, ceramics, glass, plastics, and paint. Abrasives and abrasive products include discs, belts, blast machines and sandblasters, as well as sheets, rolls, and hand pads

Tube bending and fabrication equipment is used to produce finished parts from tubes and pipes. Operations include bending, swaging, flaring, notching, fixturing, assembling and beading.

Specialty Cleaning and Surface Preparation Products are specialty or proprietary products and accessories related to cleaning and surface preparation equipment.

Finishing and surface treatment services pretreat or finish the surfaces of manufactured components to meet roughness or surface condition requirements.

Surface finishing products and equipment are used to refine or roughen a surface to meet surface finish requirements, or to clean, strengthen or prepare the surface for additional processing.

Molding services create ceramic, composite, glass, rubber, plastic, silicone, or metal parts by combining solids or powders with liquids, or by pressing solid materials or powders into a die or form.

Surface preparation services clean, strengthen and prepare surfaces for additional processing and/or refine or roughen surfaces to meet finishing requirements. Cleaning processes include thermal cleaning, degreasing, spray washing, immersion washing, stripping or coating removal, and ultrasonic cleaning. Finishing processes include blasting, buffing, deburring, deflashing, polishing, electropolishing, honing, mass finishing, mirror finishing, oxygen cleaning, passivation, picking, sanding, and grinding

Metal injection molding (MIM) services use a powder metallurgy process to manufacture metal parts.

Tube fabrication services perform end-services such as notching, slotting, and piercing. They do not manufacture pipes or tubes.