What is an epoxy granite?

Epoxy granite is a synthetic composite material composed of epoxy resin and granite chips used as a high -performance alternative to the foundations with steel and cast iron machines. The finished material is hard and resistant to excellent vibration and long life. The use of epoxy granite also allows a high degree of production flexibility, as the composite can be added to the composite add auxiliary parts, such as mounting points, slides and coolant pipes, which significantly reduces production costs. Other characteristics of saving costs for epoxy composites based on epoxy granite are the production process and the ability to use low -cost fillers to add bulk material. The disadvantages of epoxy granite composites include low impact or impact tolerance and low strength in thin castings. These borrowed bases have lent the required stiffness, stability and vibration damping, but required expensive machining processes to form the required precise surface dimensiony. Materials such as natural granite are also increasingly rare and more expensive. However, the development in the composite material is in these roles increased use of synthetic products such as epoxy granite. Synthetic granite not only exhibits the same desirable properties of traditional materials, but generally brings much better values ​​with increased production flexibility at a significantly reduced price.

Synthetic granite is an aggregate of crushed granite chips suspended in a specially formed epoxy resin. After mixing, the product is cast in the mold and cold at ambient temperatures. This allows a huge amount of flexibility in the production process on possible shapes, surlocks texture and auxiliary elements. The casting can include images of the machine, mounting eye or stud and mounting plates, which eliminates the need for expensive and work machining demanding work. The total cost of products canto be further reduced by including cheap fillers in the summary.

Machine bases made of epoxy granite most often show excellent work characteristics that often exceed those in traditional materials. For example, the material has the properties of internal damping up to ten times better than the characteristics of cast iron, three times better than natural granite and almost 30 times better than steel. Thermal stability and torsional stiffness of epoxy granite are also good, as well as its internal voltage resistance. It is impermeable for lubricant and refrigeration degradation and offers excellent noise absorption and low production costs. The only remarkable disadvantage of the composite is its low strength of thin cuts resistance to impact.