What Is Abranet and How Is It Different?
Abranet is highly resistant to dust, which helps ensure optimal usage for all types of sanding work. When combined with our ergonomic and efficient power tools and dust extractors, you’re guaranteed a dust-free surface, every time. Abranet is multifunctional, perfect for sanding fillers, primers, topcoats, composite materials, and a wide range of other materials for industrial applications.
When sanding, you can bet there will be dust, and this is something to take seriously. Dealing with dust can be expensive, time-consuming, and dangerous. By using on-tool dust extraction, dust can be safely removed from the working surface without it ending up in the air, on the floor, on your skin, and in your lungs.
What Are The Benefits of Using Abranet?
To put it simply, using Abranet helps to increase profits. When adding Abranet to your toolbox, you’ll see that it lasts longer and supports an efficient workflow better than traditional sandpaper. Work is cleaner with an improved quality of finish, all while helping protect your health.
- Net backing outlasts paper
- Dust is removed before it can mar the sanding surface
- Lasts longer with no clogging
- Adds value – less abrasives per job
- Grip attachment for quick abrasive changes
- A key part of a dust-free, healthy workspace
With productivity and good health in mind, it’s an easy decision - when choosing an abrasive, choose Abranet.
Abranet® - the First Net Abrasive
In 2001, Mirka first introduced Abranet, providing you with a complete dust-free solution for your sanding challenge. Read more about Abranet®.
Is Dust Hazardous?
The most dangerous dust is the so-called invisible dust that can pass easily into the lungs and bloodstream, where they can increase a person's risk of serious disease. This smallest and most common form of dust has already been in the air long before it settles on surfaces.
Paint residue can be highly toxic and dust from hardwood is extremely harmful if inhaled for long periods of time.
This is why, even though we created the best abrasive for a dust extraction tool, we still recommend wearing protective gear.
The Best Dust Extraction on the Market
Abranet clings to your Grip-attaching backing pad, and its thousands of holes provide the best dust extraction on the market. The maximum distance from each sanding particle to the closest dust extraction hole is less than 2/10ths of an inch.
Cleanup after sanding is a breeze. Our net abrasives are perfectly made for highly efficient dust removal with our dust extractors.
Trust Mirka with this important part of your work. We believe in providing the best, for the best.
See below what our customers say about Mirka's dust-free sanding.
Fix Auto, USA
Mirka's Dust-Free Solutions
A cleaner shop means healthier employees and a better workplace. Marc Milot, Manager at Fix Auto appreciates that their body shops are now dust-free.
"By far one of the best investments we've done. We've been able to cut our abrasive costs. They last a little bit longer. The vacuum systems work great. Overall, everybody is really excited and happy that they don't have to be full of dust every day."
Salvi Harps, Italy
Mirka's Dust-Free Solutions
True dedication is something that is hard to define. For Enzo Vizzone of Salvi Harps, it means creating uniquely finished instruments and helping the beautiful harp music to be heard around the world.
"For us, the finishing process is the most important one."
Decorative Painter, France
Mirka's Dust-Free Solutions
Having the right tools for the right sanding application is crucial if you want to exceed expectations in the finish, whether you work on something new or doing renovation work. For Alexandre Lardy, plasterer and decorative painter from France, choosing a dust-free solution from Mirka was an easy choice.
"One thing I’ve really liked and that struck me immediately is the dust extraction aspect.
I have the impression that I’m not sanding at all, so effective is the extraction – I get absolutely no dust."
Original patented net abrasive
Abranet®
Multifunctional, Abranet excels at sanding fillers, primers, topcoats, composites and a wide range of other materials for industrial use.
Available in discs, strips, triangles, and rolls.
- Exceptional dust extraction
- Perfect surface finish
Ceramic grit on ultra-fine mesh
Abranet® Ace
Achieve outstanding results across challenging surface conditions, on hardwoods and solid surfaces, and for priming and repair applications.
Available in discs and strips.
- Exceptional dust extraction
- Outstanding results on challenging surface
Ceramic grit on reinforced mesh
Abranet® Ace HD
Durable and tough, ideal for heavy-duty applications, stripping, and hard surfaces.
Available in discs, strips, triangles, and rolls.
- Superior wear and tear
- High stock removal and productivity
First patented net belt
Abranet® Max
Universal abrasive for wood industry applications. Suited to a broad variety of belt sanding tasks
Available in portable belts.
- Lasts three times longer than traditional belts
- Suitable for sanding with hydraulic cooling to avoid burning
Net abrasive for automotive repair
Mirka's OSP System
Net abrasive range especially selected for Mirka's Optimized Surface Preparation System for collision repairs.
Available in easy numbered discs, strips, and rolls.
- Simple to learn and to manage
- Profitable - dramatically increased speed and efficiency
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