A.F. Kenton is president of Nova Finishing Systems Inc., Huntingdon Valley, PA, a manufacturer of heavy-duty bowl finishers for mass finishing operations. He can be reached at 800.444.4159 or 215.942.4474 or novasales@novafinishing.com. The company’s website is at www.novafinishing.com.
Within the last five years, suppliers have found a way to make sawdust-sized, random dry organic particulate materials into shapes to give the media more bulk and mass, similar to wood shapes. The additional weight of the new dry organic media makes it basically perform the same as ceramic or plastic, except there is no need for water or chemicals.