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Extrusion Die Cleaning
To reduce the damage caused by soft shot blast cleaning of extrusion dies, Vapormatt have developed a Die Cleaning System using a mixture of water, fine aluminous oxide, and compressed air, which does little or no damage to sharp edges and fine profiles.
Aluminium extrusion die 1 Aluminium extrusion die 2
 
In-Line Wire Processing
Cleaning continuous wire / strip and short length rod by the Vapormatt process. A compact special-purpose Vapormatt Machine has been developed to remove heat treatment oxides, and lacquer, oil and grease, from wire, rod and strip. The unit has been designed to fit into the wire drawing or rod production line.
 
Decomatt
Decomatt is today's answer for cleaning and decontaminating radioactive parts and equipment in nuclear establishments. Proven in nuclear power stations throughout the world, Liquid Abrasive Decontamination provides for controlled cleaning and free release of components, tools and parts for reuse or for conventional disposal.
 
Composite Pre- Treatment To Bonding
To enable successful bonding of like to like composites, and indeed, composites to other normally incompatible materials, Vapormatt have developed - using their Patented Slurry / Air Pumping System, a unique way of surgically cleaning with simultaneous keying of composite surfaces without damage to fibres or the “lay-up” of the composite.
Helicopber blade section
 
Precision Rubber & Plastic Mould Cleaning
Vapormatt's new Liquid Lapping Process ; our environmentally friendly process is faster, the possibility of damage to the mould tool is removed; washing, scrubbing and debris removal is achieved in one process and heat can be retained in the mould.
 
Wheel Washing - Wheel De-Painting
Ideal process for washing and de-painting undercarriage parts, brake components, control surfaces, and many other cleaning operations.
Vapormaster wheel cleaning machine Dirty wheels Cleaned wheel
 
Aircraft Toilet Cleaning
Vapormatt Limited have applied their wet blasting expertise and technology to the difficult task of overhauling aircraft toilet systems and found that dramatic savings in cleaning time can be achieved by using the Vapormatt Process. Improvements to the surface finish of the cleaned parts have also been noted and the bio-hazard exposure risk is greatly reduced.
Aircraft toilet assembly Aircraft toilet filter Vapormate 3 machine
 
Peening and Wet Peening
Any part subject to twisting or bending stress is likely to benefit from peening.  The process is ideal when applied to irregular shapes where heat treatments may cause distortion.  It is ideal for the treatment of fillets, grooves or unsupported edges or anywhere where sudden changes in form occur.  (Such changes are commonly noted as fatigue fracture causes).
 
PCB Conformal Coating Removal
In the Electronics Industry today, circuit boards are extensively tested during production and generally very reliable. However, when failures occur, it has often been thought best to throw away a complete board rather than replace the individual failed component.
Vapormatt have the answer - Inexpensive Repair - Not Expensive Replacement.
PCB circuit board Vapormate machine
 
Maintenance Cleaning
Whenever equipment is serviced, maintained, reconditioned or repaired, it is necessary to clean it to some extent. In fact the only requirement is often to clean, inspect, and then to re-use or scrap. So cleaning becomes a vital but often overlooked operation.
Diesel & petrol engines Electrical components Pumps & valves
 
Small Component Cleaning - Nuts, Bolts, Washers
During the overhaul of aero engines and similar mechanisms, fitters remove all the components for cleaning prior to inspection. The resultant pile of expensive nuts, bolts and washers need to be cleaned too.
Nuts and bolts Small gear parts - dirty Small gear parts - clean
 
Starter Motor - Alternator Cleaning
Re-manufactured small parts batch cleaning trials conducted in the Vapormatt Vapormaster 1210 Barrel Machine.
Batch processed parts 1 Batch process parts 2 Batch processed parts 3
 
Vacuum Pump Overhaul
The vacuum pump overhaul industry typically depends upon harsh chemical and detergent washing systems, followed by either hand scrubbing or dry blasting to clean pump components. In addition many of these pumps contain high level contaminants which have to be handled in clean room conditions. Vapormatt have been successful in replacing and improving these traditional cleaning methods with a combination of the Vapormatt Liquid Abrasive Process, along with High Pressure Hot Water which is used for general purpose cleaning and degreasing when abrasive scrubbing is either not required or undesirable.
Vacuum pumps  
 
Combustion Engines - Simultaneous Degreasing & Contamination Removal
Vapormatt's unique Patented Wet Media Pumping System has enabled them to develop a process for simultaneous removal of oil / grease and surface contamination, such as corrosion, carbon, and paint from all parts of combustion engines! This includes intricate items, i.e. cylinder heads and engine blocks.
Cylinder heads Cylinder head processing
 
Surface Conditioning - Prosthetic Implants
Wet blasting is well known within the orthopaedic manufacturing world as the accepted procedure for surface finishing of prosthetic components, due to a number of advantages over other finishing techniques.
Artificial knee joint Artificial hip joint Hip joints
 
Gun Barrels - Propellant & Material Fines Removal
Vapormatt's wet slurry pumping system has been developed using bespoke designed equipment to create a unique method of cleaning virtually any size of gun barrels - from small side arms, to large artillery weapons.
Large bore gun barrel Large bore gun barrel section Gun barrel cleaner
 
Abradable Coatings Removal
To reduce the use of chemicals and the dangers and costs involved with high pressure cleaning systems, Vapormatt after considerable development work, have perfected and now introduced our environmentally friendly and safe cleaning and stripping system for the removal of abradable coatings.
Stator Assembly  
 
Lost Wax Castings
Vapormatt have now become market leaders in replacing existing highly toxic and expensive chemical cleaning methods, commonly used in the Jewellery trade, with their wet blast process.
Jewellery Tree Jewellery Tree 1 Vapormate Machine
 
Vaporblack Process
The Vaporblack process, developed jointly by Vapormatt and Blackfast Chemicals, enables parts to be processed at room temperature employing a special chemical that is far more environmentally friendly than conventional solutions and non-hazardous to operators. Typical process time is less than five minutes, compared with the 45 minutes needed for traditional blacking.
Vapormatt Vaporblack machine Vaporblack processed parts Typical sample parts for vaporblack processing
 
Phosmatt - Phosphating Process
Vapormatts' "Phosmatt" system offers in a single operation - simultaneous degreasing, cleaning, etching, and phosphating. In most cases the only additional stations are a post-phosphating rinse and drying. The savings in space and time can be spectacular.
 
Shoe Sole Cleaning
Whenever equipment is serviced, maintained, reconditioned or repaired, it is necessary to clean it to some extent. In fact the only requirement is often to clean, inspect, and then to re-use or scrap. So cleaning becomes a vital but often overlooked operation.
Shoe soles Shoe sole cleaning machine Shoe sole baskets
 
TV Tube Plunger Cleaning
Vapormaster "Special Purpose" machine for cleaning and surface finishing of TV plunger tools.
TV Tube processing TV Tube Cleaning Machine
 
Water Effluent Treatment
Vapormatt offer Sentinel Water Treatment Plants that treat heavy metals such as silver, zinc, cadmium, copper, lead, chromium, together with particulate and petroleum distillate pollutants, to a level of cleanliness for liquid re-use or disposal in the normal drainage system.
Water effluent treatment plant  
 
 
 
   
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