Rache™ Research and Development
Effectiveness and longevity of diamond tools significantly impacts efficiency and costs for industries from mining and tunnelling to natural stone processing and concrete floor polishing.
Rache began developing superior diamond cutting tools and abrasives for their own rare gemstone processing plant more than 3 decades ago. Through extensive research into failure modes of diamond tooling and specifically the Rebinder Effect, it became apparent that greater improvements in cutting efficiency and diamond preservation could be achieved through sophisticated performance additives than advances in tooling.
After 10 years of R&D, with the help of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) and the Small Technology Cluster, Rache™ has produced a suite of world leading, industry specific additives to optimize diamond tool performance and lifespan.
Adding 2% to 5% Rache™ Performance Additive to your water acts in many ways to optimize cutting, grinding or drilling speed while extending diamond tool life and machine life.
Optimized cutting & grinding speed:
- Exploit a physical property called the Rebinder Effect, softening the substrate ahead of the tool.
- Maximize effective torque at the tool – surface interface while reducing machine torque and tool vibration.
- Enables greater increase in penetration speed with increased cutting speeds and pressure.
Diamond preservation:
- With pressure and heat, the additive forms a protective coating around each exposed diamond which minimizes diamond wear and retains sharpness.
- Preferentially fills micro fractures in diamonds as they occur during use, reducing hydraulic pressure inside the cracks and slowing disintegration of the diamonds.