The Winterthur Technology Group, one of the world’s top 3 manufacturers of bonded abrasives for industrial use, provides the automotive, aeronautic, machine-tool, tool, glass and steel industries with innovative abrasive solutions. In many areas, including precision grinding of ultra-hard materials, cutting and grinding of billets and slabs in the steel industry as well as the tool-making industry, where its products are indispensable for the production of ultra-hard tools, Winterthur is clearly the global market leader.
With its purchase of Wendt, the group rounds out its portfolio, which now covers the majority of the abrasive product market. Wendt adds dressing tools and devices as well as grinding wheels for processing hard-to-machine materials and precision grinding machines to the portfolio. The entire group now provides abrasive solutions for all materials commonly used in the industry, from steel to glass.
2008 Beginning of abrasive tool production in China.
2011 3M takes over Winterthur Technology Group.