In the fol­low­ing years Derkom began to use mag­ne­site for man­u­fac­tur­ing large grind­ing wheels, a mate­r­i­al pre­vi­ous­ly not well known. His goal was to replace the haz­ardous sand­stone types, which had been the cause of so-called grinder’s lung.

After WWII and eco­nom­ic recov­ery, mod­ern­iza­tion of the com­pa­ny and the merg­er with the Solin­gen com­pa­ny Paul Klein & Co., DERKOM+KLEIN devel­opped into a spe­cial­ist in the field of mag­ne­site and resin-bound grind­ing wheels.

An essen­tial con­di­tion for the con­sis­tent qual­i­ty of grind­ing prod­ucts is com­pli­ance with the exact quan­ti­ties of raw mate­ri­als. At DERKOM com­put­er­ized meter­ing sys­tems and elec­tron­ic weigh­ing sys­tems are used. This guar­an­tees cor­rect fill­ing weights with­in tight­est tol­er­ances. Com­bined with proven mix­ing tech­nol­o­gy this results in an accu­rate repro­ducibil­i­ty of prod­ucts. Each prod­uct spec­i­fi­ca­tion is stored in data­bas­es to guar­an­tee long term con­sis­tent qual­i­ty.

Cus­tomized prod­ucts or spe­cif­ic pro­cess­ing of grind­ing wheels is enabled by an exten­sive range of machin­ery and com­plex machin­ing oper­a­tions can be car­ried out accord­ing to cus­tomer require­ments.