Media and Compound

Ceramic • Plastic • Steel • Dry • Random Shapes

From the Roughest Starts to the Finest Finishes, Almco is the Leader in the Industry!

Almco is the best source for media and compounds. It offers the industry’s finest most complete line — from ceramic and plastic tumbling media to powdered and liquid compounds for specialized finishing applications.

Almco actually offers to sample process quantities of your unfinished parts before your order. That’s right. Send us your samples, and we’ll process them in our research laboratory under varying combinations of media, compounds, machine and cycle times until an optimum approach is found. No charge or obligation, of course. With the return of your Almco finished parts, along with a written test report, you can easily compare your present finishing methods and costs with Almco’s recommended equipment, media, and compounds. The result? Efficient and economical finishing of your parts from the very beginning … a finish that meets or exceeds your most rigid specifications. Think about it!

Powder compounds

Available in abrasive, chemical grinding (non-abrasive), acid descaling and cleaning, burnishing, and rust-inhibiting formulations. Sized in 50-100-200-250-300-400 lb. drums.

Liquid compounds

Almco Alkaline Cleaners

Products	Foam	Description
2210	Low	Moderately alkaline cleaning compound for ferrous and non-ferrous metals
2220	Low	A heavy-duty alkaline cleaner for ferrous metals
2230	Medium	Super concentrated Alkaline cleaner
2240	Low	Alkaline cleaner, rust inhibitor, all metals, excellent with plastic media
2250	Low	Alkaline low temperature metal cleaner
154x	Medium	Heavy-duty, high alkaline cleaner and descaler ferrous metals
150x	Low	Super concentrated alkaline cleaner imparts high color on ferrous metals, excellent for spray washers
2260D	Low	Alkaline cleaner for ferrous and non-ferrous metals — low foam

Almco Burnishing Compounds

 

Products	Foam	Description
2320	High	Concentrated burnishing compound all metals
2330	High	Mildly alkaline all purpose burnishing compound
2510	High	Acidic cleaning and burnishing compound all metals — steel media
101A	High	General purpose burnishing compound all metals
Rust-inhibitors
2420	Low	Low foam mild alkaline rust-inhibitor concentrate
503R	None	Excellent all purpose liquid rust-inhibitor
506R	None	Highly concentrated [phosphate, nitrite-free rust-inhibitor

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Full line of Steel Media Finishing Machines

Processing of parts for:

• Sharp-Edge Removal
• Burnishing/Brightening
• Light Cleaning

Features:

• Variety of steel media machines to fit multiple applications
• Selection of machine sizes to fit any production requirement
• Ability to process steel media with the best action in the industry
• Ability to select accurate media sizing for proper coverage and to avoid lodging issues
• Sample processing available in a variety of machine and media sizes