I would imagine that when people think of Thailand manufacturing is not necessarily the first thing that comes to mind.

It certainly wasn’t for me…

That was until we decided to look into the market opportunities that the ASEAN region could bring for providing wet blasting solutions.

With the UK’s Advanced Engineering show around the corner manufacturers and engineers will be able to see the latest developments and technologies that are keeping Britain at the forefront of the engineering world. However, thought should also be given to the advanced surface engineering technologies that have been progressing at a similar rate.

Vapormatt, the world’s leading wet blasting company, is providing precision wet blasting solutions that significantly improve the quality of composite manufacture. Machines such as the Vapormate and the larger Panther wet blasting cabinet offer manufacturers a convenient and consistent means of processing a range of materials with exceptional finished quality. 

Global wet blasting specialist Vapormatt has brought cost-effective, high quality surface finishing within easier reach of SMEs through its Contract Services. Businesses that have neither the space nor the capital to buy their own machinery can now outsource all aspects of their surface processing to one of Vapormatt’s Contract Process Centres.

ALUEXPO 2013 brought together the leading specialists from the aluminium industry, as well as 151 international companies from 32 countries that wanted to take advantage of the potential opportunities in Turkey. Aluexpo was over 8.468 m² exhibition stands held at a venue located close to the International airport in Istanbul. Over the 5 days we were able to showcase the Vapormatt technology with our Turkish agents ADA Trustar who had set up an impressive stand. 

For the 3rd time running EMO proved to be a successful show for Vapormatt with an increasing number of people coming to learn about our controlled wet blast process.

In what was a very busy show with several interesting and exciting developments in the field of metal working Vapormatt were able to add to the buzz with our programmable gun crown.

Vapormatt will demonstrate how its Lynx wet blasting system offers extruders a solution that will improve die success rates when it visits the ALUEXPO 2013 exhibition, which this year takes place at the Istanbul Expo Centre, Turkey, from 3rd to 6th October.

Vapormatt is to open a new sales and technical support centre in Thailand, extending its service to customers in Southeast Asia.  The new office will bring Vapormatt closer to companies within the region who require advice, systems and services from the global leaders in wet blasting technology, including all the latest knowhow and specialist maintenance to help keep their machines in optimum condition.

Having just arrived back from some successful trials in the States it seems appropriate to share some of the benefits that we were demonstrating with our process.

Using the Profelis we were asked to achieve a non-specular finish on some over ground power cables which, as I learnt recently, is a national standard across all federal land.

Increasingly cutting tool manufacturers are coming to Vapormatt as they want even greater control over their edge preparation processes.

With EMO only a few weeks away it seems timely that I shed some light on the importance of control when it comes to applying more challenging radii that are commonly known as “waterfall” or “trumpet” hones.