Akasel Metallurgical Consumables Cut off Wheel Diamond Suspensions

Aptex is all about working smarter

We are a friendly, helpful team keen to work with our customers to enable them to achieve consistent, reliable and cost-effective results time after time.

We have customers in all parts of industry including aerospace, defence, power, and automotive sectors. Our customers stay with us because they know we deliver practical and effective solutions. We're always available to help find solutions to problems or to improve processes.

In addition, we have everything you need to optimise your sample preparation and analysis process.


Our preparation equipment offers a sturdy, well-designed and simple-to-use range of cut-off machines, mounting presses and grinder / polisher machines to suit every size of operation.

Our outstanding range of metallurgical and materialographic preparation consumables offer you cost effective, sample preparation routes which are quick, reliable and repeatable.

We work with our customers to optimise their sample preparation routes, tweaking processes and eliminating unnecessary steps to increase quality and consistency while saving both time and money.

Once your sample is prepared, we can design a bespoke metallurgical image analysis system to suit your exact requirements.

By combining the right microscope, camera, stage and image analysis system we ensure our customers get precisely what they need to do the job.

We have solutions ranging from basic sample image capture with a scale bar to bespoke robotic microstructure and analysis solutions.

Our highly experienced technical team are always on hand to help you improve quality cost-effectively.