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Precision Engineered Grinding Tools for Flat and Solar Glass Processing

 

SUPER-CUT applies our extensive expertise in automotive glass processing to flat and solar glass markets. We offer precision engineered grinding tools that meet the unique quality and performance requirements of each industry, with solutions tailored to your specific application requirements.

Let a SUPER-CUT sales engineer help you find the most effective and efficient solution to your glass processing challenges.

  Contact us to learn more!

 

Flat Glass

As the demand for flat glass in the construction market continues to grow, SUPER-CUT can help you achieve high-speed, low-cost fabrication with our wide range of engineered grinding products designed for flat glass processing applications. We offer cutting, edging and polishing tools that produce high-quality finished edges on architectural glass used as glass doors, windows, office partitions, tables, shelves, mirrors and transparent walls.

 

Solar Glass

SUPER-CUT grinding products are key to meeting the glass processing challenges of new applications in the solar industry. Our diamond wheels, drills and dressing sticks improve performance and productivity in the processing of specialty glass used in solar energy applications, including low iron, mirrored, patterned and coated glass.

 

Flat Glass Related Products

Cutting Wheels

SUPER-CUT offers various types of scoring wheels to effectively produce the desired shape with the least amount of edge damage.

Black Diamond Cutting Wheels

SUPER-CUT Black Diamond PCD cutting wheels are precision assembled to fit every cutting machine currently on the market. Durable and dependable, our Black Diamond cutting wheels offer the highest cut speed, score quality (reduced flake chips) and longest life available today.

Black Diamond cutting wheels solve a variety of production challenges (such as glass thickness breaking out, high compression surface and difficult shapes or edges) while lowering the cost of cutting. We stock wheels in angles of 134°–160° with wheel OD in standard 4.2 mm and 3.0 mm sizes.

TIP: Always check the depth of the score when you start up a new cutting wheel. The depth of the hackle should be 10-15% of the thickness of the glass you are cutting. Always remember the speed equals force.  So the faster you cut, the deeper you drive the score and vent into the glass.

This photo illustrates a good score.

Carbide Cutting Wheels

For flat glass operations, SUPER-CUT offers dependable, low-cost carbide cutting wheels. SUPER-CUT carbide cutting wheels are available pre-assembled or as separate components. Our pre-assembled wheel, axle and insert save valuable line operator assembly time, increasing your productivity.

  • Available in angles from 105° – 160°
  • Available in 5/32” or 4.0 mm OD for shape cutting
  • Available in 7/32” or 5.6 mm OD for straight cutting or slitting operations

Also available and matched to the cutting wheel, SUPER-CUT posts allow our cutting wheels to fit any cutting machine on the market. 

 

SUPER-CUT also offers carbide cutting wheels for float operations. These carbide cutting wheels can be used dry or with cutting oil. See below for information on SUPER-CUT Coolants.

 

Metal Bonded Diamond Wheels

Peripheral wheels with SUPER-CUT diamond/bond specifications are designed to deliver. Embedded in a sintered metal matrix, our wheels are offered with segmented or continuous diamond sections. These long-lasting wheels are best suited for rough grinding with coarser diamonds for higher material removal.

  • Available in a variety of shapes in single or multiple wheel process, reducing grinding time and increasing productivity:
    • flat edge
    • flat and arris
    • pencil edge
    • waterfall
    • trapezoidal
    • cylindrical
    • ogee
    • bullnose
    • and many more
  • Offered with segmented or continuous diamond sections for CNC and non-CNC machines
  • Available for all glass thicknesses and machine settings
  • Very fine mesh diamond is used for arris grinding wheels

The SUPER-CUT Advantage: Wear resistance results in higher material removal rate, high grinding efficiency and longer service life. Superior non-load bond systems draw fewer amps and require less stoning.

Resin Bonded Diamond Wheels

Resin bonded wheels are best suited for edge and arris finish grinding. They are ideal for final stage grinding before a high lustrous polish.

Engineered for long life, they are able to run at high speeds to produce high quality luster and require low spindle amperage.
Available by position and machine.  Please specify when ordering.

The SUPER-CUT Advantage: The continuous self-sharpening property of high-quality diamonds produces smooth, chip-free edges and corners. Improve the yields off your beveller with SUPER-CUT Resin Bond wheels.

Peripheral Wheels

Peripheral wheels, with diamond section mounted at the periphery, are designed to meet flat or shape grinding.

  • Available in a variety of shapes in single or multiple wheel process, reducing grinding time and increasing productivity:
    • flat edge
    • flat and arris
    • pencil edge
    • trapezoidal
    • cylindrical
    • ogee
    • bullnose
    • and many more
  • Offered with segmented or continuous diamond sections for CNC and non-CNC machines
  • Available for all glass thicknesses and machine settings


The SUPER-CUT Advantage: Fast startup, perfect for short run. Longer form retention giving you better yields and longer runs, translating into higher productivity.

Flat Glass Pencil Edging Wheels

SUPER-CUT diamond pencil edging wheels are engineered to your needs.

Our wheels provide:

  • Fast startup
  • High edge quality, with the lowest stress from the grind you can find
  • The best wear rates in the industry
  • High speed grinding specifications available
  • Offered with segmented or continuous diamond sections for CNC and non-CNC machines
  • Available for all glass thicknesses and machine settings
  • Available in a variety of shapes in single or multiple wheel process, reducing grinding time and increasing productivity:
    • flat edge
    • flat and arris
    • pencil edge
    • basket
    • trapezoidal
    • cylindrical
    • ogee
    • bullnose
    • and many more
  • Available in standard sizes:
    • U2 (U60 mm)
    • U4 (U100 mm)
    • U6 (U150 mm)
    • U7 (U175 mm)
    • U8 (U200 mm)
    • U10 (U250 mm)


A SUPER-CUT edge will offer you the smoothest surface from the grind that you can find. When polishing the edge in flat glass applications, the easiest way to improve the polish is to make sure you have a perfect grind. Best practice is to use a Position One – coarse grind, followed by a Position Two – fine grinding wheel. This will make it very easy to polish – Position Three.

In consumer product applications, the appearance of the visible ground edge is critical. This often requires a special profile with multiple radius, blended to a complex shape. SUPER-CUT EDM profiles will give you the exact shape you design. Learn more about our Wheel and Drill Reprofiling services.

SUPER-CUT diamond and metal bonds have the best wear rates in the industry. Our bonds hold the profile shape, improving tempering yields. Increase the number of redress in each wheel and lower your cost significantly.

Let SUPER-CUT custom design the glass profile for a superior ground edge, quick startup and high oven yields.

SUPER-CUT manufactures pencil edging wheels for all straight line machines, double edgers, CAM or CNC grinders.  We can design a custom OD exactly for your equipment and grinding needs with wheel OD as small as 25 mm and no restrictions on the OD of the grinding wheel.

Flat Glass Diamond Drill Bits

SUPER-CUT offers a variety of drills that are custom engineered to your application and ready within two to four weeks.

Core Drills

Our one-piece straight core drills offer fast performance and amazing life, in sizes from 4 mm to 180 mm OD. In sizes under 25 mm, SUPER-CUT straight core drills have been known to drill more than 40,000 holes. SUPER-CUT can fit any drilling machine on the market today. Shank design will be selected to fit your equipment.

SUPER-CUT diamond core drills and seamers have been developed for use on high-performance CNC glass drilling machines with long series batch production. A complete range of SUPER-CUT designs and specifications are available to fit each machine:

  • Quick startup
  • Accurate hole size
  • Great hole quality
  • We can set the optimum spindle speed or design the drill bit to run at your required speed
  • High feed rates
  • Coolant type: coolant or water
  • Tool life that’s the best in the industry

Chamfer Drills: One-piece Design

SUPER-CUT’s one-piece chamfer drills are designed to drill and chamfer holes in a single cycle. The fixed core lengths are set for each glass thickness to provide optimum drill speed and hole quality. The one-piece core drill seamer is the most commonly used drill in glass today due to its ease of use and excellent hole quality, resulting in high glass yields in the tempering process. Consult a SUPER-CUT sales engineer for a size and specification recommendation.

Chamfer Drills: Two-piece Design

SUPER-CUT’s two-piece drill design allows you to match a core drill of your choice to the seamer, so the same OD drill can be used for multiple glass thicknesses. The seamer is precision designed for a tight fit to maintain hole quality. While the two-piece drill bit combo offers greater flexibility, it requires more in-house control by plant personnel during setup.

Shanks are available for any glass drilling machine: Bystronic, Bando, TAC, Forvet, Bentler, Schiatti, ADA, Glassline, SunTool, Intermac and more. For special or custom machines, SUPER-CUT can design a shank for your specific application.

Drills, Seamers and Routers

Need to finish a cut-out or shaped opening?  SUPER-CUT has the seamer, pencil edge or router to give your finished product the exact look required for today’s stove top designs.

TIPS:

Are you cutting this shape with a water-jet?  As a major abrasives company, SUPER-CUT can offer you the garnet abrasive required to cut glass or ceramics.

Are you interested in improving oven yields? Try a SUPER-CUT chamfer drill bit instead of a straight core drill bit. We have live case studies of improving oven yields up to 12%!

Flat Glass Dressing Sticks

SUPER-CUT dressing sticks are used on diamond tools to sharpen or re-expose diamonds and optimize glass edge quality and tool feed speed. Proper wheel and drill dressing will reduce chipping and eliminate breakage and burns during glass fabrication. 

A relatively softer abrasive is used to provide greater diamond exposure.

The SUPER-CUT Advantage: Highly friable grains allow quick and consistent re-sharpening, lower diamond wear, and longer tool life.

TIP: SUPER-CUT carries longer, 230 mm dressing sticks made especially for hand-dressing your diamond grinding wheel.

Flat Glass Coolants

SUPER-CUT offers a variety of leading coolant products with chemistries specially designed to complement our diamond wheels and drills. We offer everything you need to keep your glass process running smoothly — from complete cooling system management to coolants and lubricant additives.

Our product line includes:

  • Cutting and scoring oils
  • Grinding coolants
  • Conveyor and chain lubricants for furnaces
  • Washer fluids
  • Maintenance oils
  • Coolants and cutting fluids for tool rooms
  • Coolant field samples and analysis

Cutting/Scoring Oils

Cutting oil is used to score glass for breakout. The oil fills the score and prevents the glass from re-healing, allowing a clean, defect-free separation of the glass part from the cullet trim.

Some of the primary benefits of our cutting oil are:

  • Clean breakout of scored glass to prevent edge chips
  • Increased cutting machine uptime
  • Lower tooling cost
  • Reduced changeover time and machine adjustment

Careful use of cutting oil is required to ensure compatibility with take-away belts and seals in the cutting equipment. Using the wrong oil will create a fire hazard in your plant. Since the oil is washed into the coolant system, take care that the cutting oil does not become a contaminant in your grinding coolant or glass washer.

Four types of scoring oils are available:

  • Hybrid (the most common oil used)
  • Vanishing
  • Soluble (the most common source of contamination in your washer or coolant recovery system)
  • Straight

Ask your SUPER-CUT sales engineer to help you select the perfect cutting oil to meet your glass cutting needs.

Grinding Coolants

Years of R&D development have generated significant new synthetic coolant products for glass operations. Coolant is designed as a one-part system used primarily in centrifuge systems, or a two-part system with a secondary flocculant additive for settling systems.

SUPER-CUT supplies a full range of high-quality coolants for glass grinding that:

  • Improve wheel and drill life by 40%
  • Increase line speed
  • Enhance edge quality
  • Reduce energy consumption
  • Increase oven yields and eliminate glass loss due to burns or microfracture chips
  • Control foam
  • Prevent coolant guard and line plugging, with additives to prevent glass fines from clumping or hardening
  • Inhibit biological growth
  • Protect equipment from rust
  • Eliminate water spots on the glass

We also offer a full line of additives, including flocculants, coagulants, defoamers, rust inhibitors and bactericides.

Your SUPER-CUT sales engineer can evaluate your glass grinding process and recommend the best coolant for your operation.

Solar Glass Related Products

Solar Glass Pencil Edging Wheels

SUPER-CUT diamond pencil edging wheels are engineered to meet the requirements for glass used in solar panels. We manufacture pencil edging wheels for all straight line machines, double edgers and CNC grinders. Our new technologies enable us to offer wheels with free cutting for low edge stress and a longer life bond.

SUPER-CUT wheels provide:

  • Fast startup
  • High edge quality, with the lowest stress from the grind you can find
  • The best wear rates in the industry
  • High speed grinding specifications available
  • Available in standard sizes:
    • U2 (U60 mm)
    • U4 (U100 mm)
    • U6 (U150 mm)
    • U7 (U175 mm)
    • U8 (U200 mm)
    • U10 (U250 mm)


In solar panel applications, the appearance of the visible ground edge is critical. This often requires a special profile with multiple radius, blended to a complex shape. SUPER-CUT EDM profiles will give you the exact shape you design. Learn more about our Wheel and Drill Reprofiling services.

SUPER-CUT diamond and metal bonds have the best wear rates in the industry. Our bonds hold the profile shape, improving tempering yields. Increase the number of redress in each wheel and lower your cost significantly.

Let SUPER-CUT custom design the glass profile for a superior ground edge, quick startup and high oven yields.

We can design a custom OD exactly for your equipment and grinding needs with wheel OD as small as 25 mm and no restrictions on the OD of the grinding wheel.

Solar Glass Diamond Drill Bits

SUPER-CUT offers a variety of drills that are custom engineered to your application and ready within two to four weeks.

Benefits

  • Quick startup
  • Accurate hole size
  • Great hole quality
  • We can set the optimum spindle speed or design the drill bit to run at your required speed
  • High feed rates
  • Coolant type: coolant or water
  • Tool life that’s the best in the industry

Chamfer​ Drills: One-piece Design

SUPER-CUT’s one-piece chamfer drills are designed to drill and chamfer holes in a single cycle. The fixed core lengths are set for each glass thickness to provide optimum drill speed and hole quality. The one-piece core drill seamer is the most commonly used drill in glass today due to its ease of use and excellent hole quality, resulting in high glass yields in the tempering process.

Consult a SUPER-CUT sales engineer for a size and specification recommendation.

TIP: Are you interested in improving oven yields or the strength of the glass? Try a SUPER-CUT dual mesh chamfer drill bit to achieve high line speeds with faster drill time and great hole quality.

Solar Glass Dressing Sticks

SUPER-CUT dressing sticks are used on diamond tools to sharpen or re-expose diamonds and optimize glass edge quality and tool feed speed. Proper wheel and drill dressing will reduce chipping and eliminate breakage and burns during glass fabrication. 

A relatively softer abrasive is used to provide greater diamond exposure.

The SUPER-CUT Advantage: Highly friable grains allow quick and consistent re-sharpening, lower diamond wear, and longer tool life.

TIP: SUPER-CUT carries longer, 230 mm dressing sticks made especially for hand-dressing your diamond grinding wheel.

Solar Glass Coolants

SUPER-CUT offers a variety of leading coolant products with chemistries specially designed to complement our diamond wheels and drills. We offer everything you need to keep your glass process running smoothly — from complete cooling system management to coolants and lubricant additives.

Our product line includes:

  • Cutting and scoring oils
  • Grinding coolants
  • Conveyor and chain lubricants for furnaces
  • Washer fluids
  • Maintenance oils
  • Coolants and cutting fluids for tool rooms
  • Coolant field samples and analysis

Cutting/Scoring Oils

Cutting oil is used to score glass for breakout. The oil fills the score and prevents the glass from re-healing, allowing a clean, defect-free separation of the glass part from the cullet trim.

Some of the primary benefits of our cutting oil are:

  • Clean breakout of scored glass to prevent edge chips
  • Increased cutting machine uptime
  • Lower tooling cost
  • Reduced changeover time and machine adjustment

Careful use of cutting oil is required to ensure compatibility with take-away belts and seals in the cutting equipment. Using the wrong oil will create a fire hazard in your plant. Since the oil is washed into the coolant system, take care that the cutting oil does not become a contaminant in your grinding coolant or glass washer.

Four types of scoring oils are available:

  • Hybrid (the most common oil used)
  • Vanishing
  • Soluble (the most common source of contamination in your washer or coolant recovery system)
  • Straight

Ask your SUPER-CUT sales engineer to help you select the perfect cutting oil to meet your glass cutting needs.

Grinding Coolants

Years of R&D development have generated significant new synthetic coolant products for glass operations. Coolant is designed as a one-part system used primarily in centrifuge systems, or a two-part system with a secondary flocculant additive for settling systems.

SUPER-CUT supplies a full range of high-quality coolants for glass grinding that:

  • Improve wheel and drill life by 40%
  • Increase line speed
  • Enhance edge quality
  • Reduce energy consumption
  • Increase oven yields and eliminate glass loss due to burns or microfracture chips
  • Control foam
  • Prevent coolant guard and line plugging, with additives to prevent glass fines from clumping or hardening
  • Inhibit biological growth
  • Protect equipment from rust
  • Eliminate water spots on the glass

We also offer a full line of additives, including flocculants, coagulants, defoamers, rust inhibitors and bactericides.

Your SUPER-CUT sales engineer can evaluate your glass grinding process and recommend the best coolant for your operation.

Related Documents - Flat/Solar Glass

 Brochure SuperCut Flat Glass 2018

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