Strongpoint of using diamond abrasives (brick/Fickert):

Saving electricity: diamond brick can be used to grind stone with less power because of its sharpness. This can reduce the stress of grind head, thereby reduce machine' abrasion and stone's dilapidation.

High efficiency: using diamond brick can raise the transmission speed of conveyer belt; thereby improve the efficiency for its sharpness and abrasion resistance.

High luminosity: using diamond brick can improve stone luminosity more than 10 degree. For adopting advanced technology, diamond brick can totally avoid the unstabilization of brick quality that caused by magnesia activation reduction and conservation condition's change during the production. And possibility of causing nick and unstabilization of luminosity reduce because that the examination and transportation of diamond production are more rigorous than that of magnesia production and the uniformity of diamond granularity is far better than that of luminosity.

High quality: diamond brick own high quality because computer controlled production equipment and technics are used in the production. However, the production of magnesia is still adopt simple manual work and the production period would prolong more than one month, these affect the quality of products.

Stone surfacing is the whole range of operations which, after sawing or milling, give the surface its final polish. They take place as follows:

  - Roughing (or dressing) which removes the flaws caused by sawing;
  - Smoothing, which eliminates the scratches left by the abrasive during the previous operation;
  - Polishing, which gives the stone sufficient finish to take the final glazing;
  - Glazing, the final operation using a flat plate, in which the diamond plays no part.
 

The development of new bonds and impregnations has had the effect of extending the use of the diamond tool to stages subsequent to surfacing, i.e. smoothing and polishing. This development is linked to the advantages which the diamond shows over silicon carbide. They are:

  - To reduce the time and the necessary stages to obtain a finished product;
  - To reduce tool replacements due to a longer tool life;
  - To avoid inconveniences of silicon carbide tools where loose grains earlier released tend to scratch a surface already treated with finer grit size.

How Many Heads Equipped With Diamond
The best results can be expected by replacing conventional shoes on the 3-5 first heads of the line.

The Advantages of Using Diamond Instead of Conventional Tools

Productivity
Increase of 10-20% of the line speed.

Reduction of dead times
The replacement frequency of diamond shoes is very low.
Moreover, these reduced operations increase the safety of workers.

Reduction of
Carbo stock (for a similar production, the volume/head of carbo is 250 times more important that the one for the diamond tool
Carbo shipment costs
Cleaning frequency of machine.

Utilization, easiness & flexibility

Reduced operational costs
  -less energy consumption (20 to 25% per head) because pressure on shoes is reduced to 2kg/cm2
  -less strain on the heads, therefore less maintenance
  -only 1 operator for 2 to 3 polishing lines
  -reduction of required number of heads
  -less plate breakages (because of reduced pressure)

Pollution free

Storage conditions
Conventional tools must be kept dry and are sensitive to temperature variations; not the diamond sectors.

Quality
The quality of the polished tiles is the highest quality and even better than conventional shoes when the granite is porous.