There is a wide range of applications for impact treatment within the iron,
steel and non-ferrous foundries, shipbuilding, structural steel fabrications
and many other metalworking industries that rely on blast treatment in the
manufacture of high quality products.
Surface Preparation Abrasives are used to clean the surface and create the roughness required
to give a good key for the adhesion of coatings (painting, powder coating, enamelling,
metallisation, rubber bonding etc.).
Shot Peening This process is designed to improve the fatigue life of products which suffer variable stresses in use (e.g. springs, torsion bars and stabilizers, con-rods, gears, turbines, shafts).
Scale Removal Abrasives are used for cleaning ferrous or non ferrous alloys; products from forging, stamping, die-forging, drawing and rolling or after heat treatment (e.g., pipes, sections, plates, fittings, wire).
Sand Removal Cleaning of castings.
Roll Etching Abrasives are used to obtain a specified surface roughness.
Aluminium Fabrications Shot blasting of aluminium fabrications, using steel abrasives instead of corundum, results in an improved surface finish.
Air Blasting This process is utilised on any type of general fabrication where size and shape make wheel blasting inappropriate.
De-burring Abrasives are used for the removal of burrs arising during injection moulding of metallic products (e.g., aluminium alloys, rubber resins).
Roughening Abrasives are used for the aesthetic treatment of some materials (e.g.texturing of concrete products, engraving on glass, artificial ageing of wood).
