The city of Coventry was known as the heart of precision engineering and automotive manufacturing sector throughout the twentieth century. Coventry Grinders Ltd was established in the 1930s to serve this ever-growing and demanding industry.
We are very proud of our heritage and have come a very long way in 80 years of service, keeping up with the requirements of a developing engineering sector. We still prioritise fulfilling our commitment to our customers’ needs.
We are technical distributors of grinding wheels and abrasive products, and are proud to be stockists of the leading brands. We work very closely with all our manufacturers to offer our customers the best products at competitive prices. We have great technical knowledge in all areas of our products and their applications and offer full support to the customer. If you’re looking to improve productivity or have problems with your abrasive application, we offer onsite visits with our technicians.
Our core product is gauge plate, also known as ground flat stock. Our in-house grinding facility enables us to manufacture almost any size with realistic delivery times. We hold some of the biggest stocks of both metric and imperial sizes within the West Midlands and throughout the UK. Allied to this product we stock silver steel in all standard sizes.
With the support of our supply base we pride ourselves on our highly efficient and professional service, and we recognise your success is our success. We continually strive to develop our business to deliver top quality products to our customers, and are always interested in hearing our customers’ feedback and comments. We know that we would be nowhere without our clients; everything we do is geared towards providing them with a better experience.
offers the service of chemical blacking for the engineering industry. This is a chemical process that provides a protective coating for finished metal products. Also used for the presentation/finish of machined parts. Typical types of product we treat include gauging and gauge plate, nuts and bolts, fabrications, and general machined or turned parts.
Norton, the world’s premium abrasive brand, offers a complete range of high performance products designed to perform in any abrasive application in all industrial markets. As the technology leader, Norton sits at the forefront of the industry offering highly engineered value-adding abrasive solutions. With unparalleled abrasive technology, Norton provides the industry’s widest range of abrasive products and solutions, offering a full range of product qualities to meet every individual requirement.
Each year, Norton makes substantial investments in R&D helping to generate innovative ideas that aim to revolutionise abrasives. This strong commitment to innovation ensures that exciting new products are continuously introduced, offering substantial benefits to customers by helping to improve process productivity.
Flexovit provides a wide range of products and solutions to meet every individual need and requirement whether for sanding, polishing, cutting, grinding, or sharpening, across general engineering, general manufacturing, metal fabrication, maintenance shops, repair shops, woodworking, construction, tool room, rail or foundry.
Based on core engineering and manufacturing expertise, Flexovit helps its customers to identify and implement cost-effective solutions for any industrial application. With a true leading position Flexovit contributes to improving results; by reducing the number of operations and machine cycle times, by increasing product quality, and by offering greater productivity ratios. The Flexovit program includes a wide range of product qualities that satisfies all price/performance levels expected within demanding industrial markets.
Quality tools for industrial production
WINTER, as the premium brand for diamond and cBN grinding products, is one of the most well established and respected names in the market. The combination of exceptional technology, complete and innovative product lines, an irrefutable reputation for quality and safety, and experienced, committed, passionate people, is the key to their success. WINTER has been a worldwide name for high-quality diamond and cBN grinding tools for industrial production for over 160 years.
As pioneer and trend-setter, WINTER has been actively involved in the development of the success story of grinding, as well as in the production of synthetic diamonds. Since the foundation of the company, WINTER has stood for quality at the highest level. It begins with the first customer contact, and covers the identification of appropriate tool specifications, manufacturing, customer support and the final optimisation of your production process.
Since being established in Finland in 1943, KWH Mirka Ltd has grown to become a key element of the diverse KWH Group, a family owned Finnish company. A globally expanding company, Mirka is proud to serve the European, North American, South American and Asian markets. Today Mirka is well on its way to achieving its future vision – to be considered as the clear market leader by all those who use coated abrasive products.
Mirka’s success has been founded on a company culture that aims to constantly seek out new challenges and apply creative thinking to generate continuous improvement and unique solutions. The cornerstone has been an intensive Research & Development (R&D) program and the commitment of talented staff across all areas of the business. This has not only resulted in the development of revolutionary abrasive technology but also in the creation of ground-breaking new coatings production processes.
VSM is an established company with a longstanding history of providing incredibly high quality abrasive products. Specialising in coated abrasives, VSM is a British business that has grown to be one of the global leaders in the abrasive market. Throughout the 140 year history of the company, VSM has developed a reputation for providing customers with an international partner capable of evaluating and optimising their grinding processes.
