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Buffalo Abrasives was founded in 1988. The company is located in North Tonawanda, New York and occupies the same facilities that were formerly National Grinding Wheel. The company's management team are third and fourth generation descendants of John J. Russ, who founded National Grinding Wheel in 1923.

In February 2019, Buffalo Abrasives became a subsidiary of Sak Abrasives, founded in 1997 by Aditya Kirshna and located in Gummidipoondi, India which is a 3rd generation family business. The combined companies offer a complete line of grinding wheels, including resin, rubber, shellac, epoxy & vitrified wheels up to 42 inches in diameter with grit sizes from 16 to 600. We focus on high performance, special, made to order products. Our comprehensive Quality Assurance program guarantees consistent product performance from wheel to wheel and order to order.

Buffalo Abrasives offers dependable lead times on special made to order products, excellent customer service, and access to our engineering team with value added performance.

Let us show you how experience, performance and service can translate to the most cost effective solutions for your company.

For more information and the location of a distributor near you, please complete our online information request or call us toll free at (888) 311-3856.

We utilize precision scales and high speed mixers to blend our raw materials;  temperature and humidity is closely controlled in the Mixing DepartmentOur raw materials are bar coded and<br> our manufacturing specifications are completely computerized MoldingSide FinishingOD FinishingIn compliance with ANSI B7.1, we speed test wheels 6" diameter and over to induce much higher stresses than during use.  A flaw in the wheel will cause it to fail.