Acid pickling can’t hold a specified surface roughness (Ra). Dry blasting lets dust settle back on product you’ve just cleaned. Brushes wear, so the finish at the end of a run never matches the start.
The Vapormatt Profelis removes all three compromises. It’s the only purpose-built in-line wet blasting machine for continuous wire, cable, strip, rod and bandsaw blades, processing 1mm to 54mm product at up to 120 m/min with integrated rinsing and drying. No acid, no dust, no off-line step.
Wire and cable: oxides, scale, drawing lubricants and graphite removed in one pass. Overhead conductor gains a non-specular finish that lifts emissivity from 0.5 to 0.8, worth around 5% more current-carrying capacity.
Bandsaw blades: carbide teeth honed, gullets peened to around -1,500 MPa and surfaces prepared for coating, all in-line. Pilana Metal raised line speed from 1.5 to 8 m/min after replacing dry blasting.
Strip and rod: a consistent, reactive surface for bonding, coating and rotary extrusion, with patented micro nozzles reaching wire down to 1mm.
Every Profelis is tested against its agreed specification before it leaves us.
Tell us your product, diameter and line speed, and we’ll specify the configuration that fits your line.
