Kemet Polishing Pads

Flat polished surfaces can only be produced on many softer materials with the use of polishing pads. These are available to suit most flat lapping machines. Kemet offer the widest range of self-adhesive polishing pads, of which there are three general types:

Synthetic Silk Pads

A range of synthetic silk pads with a durable woven structure that produces flat mirror surfaces on stainless steels, stellite and many other metals.

ASFL- for optimum flat mirror polishing of many metals. This pad is available with adhesive resistance to oil or water, to suit the polishing abrasive being used.

ASF- this silk pad has a self-adhesive cloth backing which is resistant to water. It produces mirror surfaces, but is more suitable for cosmetic finishes on products, such as jewellery, where flatness is not crucial.

Chemo Textile Pads

Non woven pads manufactured specially for polishing processes.

PSU - available in medium and hard. Used with Diamond and Non Diamond abrasives. A good general purpose pad with a relatively long life.

CHEM-H - for use with COL-K polish for chemical mechanical polishing processes, which are required for many specialised materials, such as titanium and cobalt chrome.

Nap Cloths

Particularly suitable for the softer materials and metals.

NMH - unidirectional fibres bonded to a cotton twill backing, durable and wear resistant.

NLH - a longer and stiffer nap cloth used for some optical polishing operations.

Polishing pad datasheet (0.1 MB)

Magnetic Polishing pad system

Kemet offer a unique magetic polishing system which can be used with all diamond suspensions, diamond slurries, colloidal silica and lubricants

• Greatly extended cloth life - up to 4 x longer compared to self adhesive pads
• No more finger cutting - no risk to cut fingertips
• Adaptable to any process
• Fits to any magnetic plate
• Cleaner process
• Sizes available from 200mm diameter to 916mm diameter

Magnetic polishing pad system datasheet (0.1 MB)