Made in the USA

Products That Go Above & Beyond

Reliability, strength, accuracy, easy to maintain, these are all of the buzz words you hear when Burr King products are described. For Burr King, the leading provider in abrasive belt grinders, vibratory and surface conditioning equipment, pride is producing a product that goes beyond simple advertised claims.

Designed, Assembled, & Painted in the United States

The raw materials, motors, casting, and primary components are all sourced from the USA. This is not true for many of their competitors. Products manufactured by companies in foreign markets, mainly China, are sold cheaper than what domestic companies pay for raw materials. The imitators, while similar in design, rarely go through the same quality control, utilize poorly made components, and may not provide guarding that is on par with current regulations. When a consumer makes the decision to purchase a Burr King product, they are not just getting something that was pushed out hastily from a factory overseas. Frequently, Burr King customers have gone out of their way to encourage the company not to move their production to China like so many others have.

Most competitor “grinders” will turn at 3000 surface feet per minute. This speed is much closer to a woodworking tool than something that has to work efficiently, reliably, and smoothly with metal on a day to day basis. Most motors used on Burr King grinders are high speed motors which turn the abrasive belt up to 8000 surface feet per minute but can be optioned with a variable speed motor. This allows the customer to further extend their capabilities and work with woods, composites, plastics, rubber, stone, and fiberglass.

Simply put, what Burr King is selling is not just a product

MacCarthy’s family and his twenty-three employees are selling something that is somewhat lost in this disposable generation. First and foremost for them is the delivery of quality. Their designs take into account that there are Burr King machines that are still in use in the field today that were produced twenty or thirty years ago.

“Our sales people say they like to sell them because they don’t have to go out and maintain them. They are a simple machine,” says MacCarthy. “Normally if there is a problem the consumer can order a part and maintain the product themselves.”

Frequently, their products are demonstrated at trade shows, but they will also bring the product to the customer in one of their mobile demonstration vehicles. Steve Harker, Burr King’s National Sales Manager says, “all the customer needs to do is call us. We will come to you with our products, then the customer will experience what we call the Burr King difference.”

Along with their time tested belt and disk grinder designs, Burr King also manufactures vibratory processing machines. In this process, parts are placed into a bowl or chamber with media or compounds of various types depending on the users desired finished product. These products provide a safer alternative for finishing smaller more fragile parts. The advantage of using a vibratory machine like Burr King’s VibraKing is that the process finishes a part with an equal and even force unlike other methods that can result in distorting or tearing the metal. Burr King’s vibratory equipment range from 3 quart up to 8.5 cubic feet, and are described as being ultra quiet. With use of the optional VibraHush lid, a VibraKing chamber’s sound emissions are are reduced three to six decibels.

Burr King’s products are used in so many different industries and applications; from attachments to sharpen hunting knives, to applications in robotics, guitars, and prosthetics, to polishing jewelry, or creating knives that are a work of art.