Marine and Shipbuilding
In the demanding environment of shipbuilding, where precision, durability, and efficiency are paramount, Osborn stands out as a trusted partner. Our comprehensive range of high-quality tools and expert guidance ensures that shipbuilders can achieve optimal results in their surface finishing, cleaning, and other industrial processes.
Our Commitment to the Shipbuilding Industry
At Osborn, we provide not just high-quality tools, but also expert guidance and a commitment to helping you achieve optimal results. Osborn is a reliable partner for businesses seeking to improve their surface finishing, cleaning, and other industrial processes.
Customer Collaboration
Our experts are experienced in surface treatment solutions and finishing tools, ready to partner with customers on how best to achieve optimum results.
Wide Range of Products
We offer a wide range of products specific to metal finishing in marine and shipbuilding.
North American Manufacturing for Quality and Availability
Our manufacturing facilities across the United States and Mexico ensure the highest quality in the market.
Broadly Available Through Our Distributor Partners
Our complete product line is available and sold through our distribution partners.
Explore the cutting-edge solutions we offer for the marine and shipbuilding industries. Our comprehensive brochure provides detailed information on our innovative products and services tailored to meet the unique demands of these sectors. Download our brochure today to discover how Osborn can help enhance your shipbuilding projects with high-quality, reliable solutions.
Our Solutions
Wheel Brushes
- Shipbuilders rely on wheel brushes to efficiently eliminate rust, corrosion, and aged coatings.
- Wheel brushes play a vital role in smoothing rough edges, cleansing weld seams, and ensuring consistent surface finishes. They significantly contribute to enhancing the overall quality and aesthetics of maritime surfaces.
- Osborn's patented design ensures superior longevity and performance, providing a lasting solution for diverse industrial applications.
Cup Brushes
- Shipbuilders rely on cup brushes to meticulously clean and prepare surfaces, ensuring they are properly primed before applying protective coatings or undertaking welding tasks.
- These brushes excel at eliminating rust, corrosion, and aged coatings from a variety of metal surfaces, including steel plates, ship hulls, and equipment components.
- Cup brushes play a vital role in removing weld spatter, refining rough edges, and readying surfaces for welding, making them instrumental throughout the shipbuilding process.
- Their exceptional efficiency, durability, and adaptability solidify cup brushes as indispensable tools in ship construction.
End Brushes
- Shipbuilders utilize end brushes to clean and prepare surfaces before welding, ensuring proper adhesion and joint integrity.
- Commonly employed for deburring metal surfaces, removing excess material, and achieving smooth edges on welded joints and metal components.
- End brushes are effective for removing rust, corrosion, and old coatings from hard-to-reach areas such as corners, crevices, and tight spaces on ship hulls, decks, and equipment.
Scratch Brushes
- Shipbuilders utilize these brushes to remove rust, corrosion, and old coatings from metal surfaces, ensuring optimal adhesion for subsequent treatments such as painting or welding.
- Scratch brushes are particularly effective in areas where other tools might struggle to reach, allowing for thorough cleaning and preparation of surfaces, including ship hulls, decks, and equipment components.
- Invaluable for preparing surfaces before welding, scratch brushes ensure proper bonding and structural integrity of welded joints.
Chip Brushes
- Shipbuilders commonly use chip brushes for tasks such as applying primer, paint, varnish, or epoxy coatings to ship hulls, decks, and equipment components.
- Chip brushes offer great utility for use with most varnishes, paints, and stains.
- They are also valuable for applying sealants and adhesives to joints, seams, and surfaces.
Marine and Shipbuilding
Products.
Economy Chip Brush
Affordable chip brush available in several varieties of fill with choice of wood or plastic handle.
TufBrush Stringer Bead Brush
Trust Osborn TufBrush™ products to get the toughest jobs done quickly and efficiently. Osborn’s unique design starts with quality wire. TufWire™, our proprietary wire strands, offers increased rigidity and aggressiveness. Combined with a unique knot design, TufBrush™ products consistently remove 60% more material than standard carbon steel wire varieties. Because of the brush’s state-of-the-art design, TufBrush products last twice as long as commodity brushes, which means less replacements and less downtime.
Stringer Bead Brush
Enjoy American-made quality and performance at an economical price. Features Osborn’s proprietary TufWire™ wire strands, which outperform competitive products in both material removal and longevity. Works aggressively on a variety of jobs using air tools or portable tools.
High Speed Small Grinder Knot Wire Wheel Brush
Quickly clean grooves, T-connections, welded beads and more with Osborn’s High Speed Small Grinder Knot Wire Wheel Brush. Featuring our proprietary TufWire™ wire strands and rugged knot design, this versatile brush delivers uniform results from start to finish. Brush is designed for maximum safety and smooth, efficient operation at high speeds on air tools or portable power tools.
High Speed Small Grinder Cable Knot Wheel Brush
Featuring Osborn’s proprietary TufWire™ wire strands and cable twist knots, our High Speed Small Grinder Cable Knot Wheel Brushes are designed to tackle applications that need more aggressive action than standard knot wire brushes can offer. Premium rigid wire provides efficient and uniform cleaning and coating removal.
Crimped Wire End Brush
Osborn’s Crimped Wire End Brush features high-quality wire construction and a ¼” shank for convenient mounting on hand-held power tools and CNC equipment. Engineered to provide uniform brushing action when operated at high speeds. Small diameter and brush flexibility make them ideal for recesses and other difficult-to-reach areas.
Knot Wire End Brush
Featuring proprietary TufWire™ wire strands twisted for added strength, Osborn Knot Wire End Brushes offers efficient, rugged brushing action to tackle a wide variety of tough cleaning and maintenance applications. Ideal for hard-to-reach areas and inner diameters, and can be operated at high speed on CNC equipment.
Knot Wire Cup Brush
Osborn Knot Wire Cup Brushes offer unmatched aggressiveness to tackle heavy-duty large surface jobs. Manufactured with proprietary best-in-class TufWire™, which allows for rigorous use and a longer lifespan. Designed to perform smoothly and efficiently on high-speed power tools.
High Speed Small Grinder Knot Wire Cup Brush
Designed for heavy-duty tasks, Osborn High Speed Small Grinder Knot Wire Cup Brush feature proprietary TufWire™ for aggressive, yet uniform brushing action. This versatile brush makes quick work of scale removal, deburring, and weld cleaning, and is made for use on portable 4-1/2” and 5” grinders. Made in the USA.
Curved Handle Scratch Brush
Handy and economical, these efficient brushes are ideal for a wide variety of cleaning and surface preparation tasks. Brushes feature comfortable curved handle with choice of wire fill.