Wet blasting has become increasingly common in the aerospace industry, thanks to its ability to carry out a wide range of tasks – from degreasing components to surface treatment of turbine blades, says Phil Dawes, Sales Engineer at Vapormatt.

Wet blasting has become an increasingly common surface treatment technique in the aerospace industry, although to some it appears to be nothing more than dousing the surface with dirty water. But the technique has hidden depths: the water contains abrasive particles that can be shot against the surface with varying force.

Vapormatt, a leading specialist in wet blasting for surface and edge preparation in tooling applications, has announced that its innovative Sabre wet blasting machine has been installed at coating specialist Ionbond’s demonstration centre in Switzerland.

Vapormatt, a leading specialist in wet blasting for surface finishing and cleaning in industrial applications, is now offering a high performance, enclosed paraffin wash machine, developed specifically to safely degrease metals, plastics and painted surfaces. This simple and easy to operate machine enables aerospace engineers to quickly and efficiently clean dirty components, while reducing the health risks of inhaling cleaning solvent mist and vapour.

After a busy two days Vapormatt's first show at Advanced Engineering has finished. Comprising of 5 events the show saw thousands of visitors from across all industries attend the show that was held at Birminghams NEC.

The benefits of wet blast surface preparation for cutting tool manufacturers were presented at JIMTOF 2014 by Vapormatt. For the 2014 show the company drew attention not only to the advantages its technology offers to the tooling industry, but also the developments to product range with the newly released Sabre in the spotlight.

Vapormatt has released its latest white paper exploring the use of wet-blasting in the aerospace industry. As well as providing an overview of the process, the paper looks at what considerations must be made when looking to invest in wet blasting equipment.

Wet blasting specialist Vapormatt will be exhibiting its advanced and market leading range of wet blasting technology for the preparation of cutting tools at 2014’s JIMTOF exhibition in Tokyo.

Located on stand E1071 Vapormatt will be showcasing its latest innovation, the Vapormatt Sabre with their Japanese distributor for tooling products, Eurotechno.

Global wet blasting specialist Vapormatt has launched a new, free white paper in its ongoing series that offers tips and advice to a range of industries.  The latest paper, entitled Enhancing Composite Performance, looks at the challenges facing composite manufacturers and highlights the ways in which wet blasting helps to improve performance.  The paper will provide useful insight for anyone involved in composite manufacture.

Wet blasting specialist Vapormatt will be exhibiting its advanced and market leading range of wet blasting technology for the aerospace and composites sectors at Advanced Engineering 2014 on 11-12 November, at the NEC, Birmingham. 

After a busy week in Chicago our application specialists have returned home from 2014’s IMTS show.

This year’s theme was “Come Together” with the show inviting over 100,000 decision makers to come along and see the latest technologies that will help find answers for their manufacturing challenges.