Wet blasting, as a process, probably brings to mind several different images of its applications and this is often the case with most people.

Having dealt with a large range of different applications from: cleaning of bowling pins, to fading of jeans and degreasing of oily parts to achieving precise surface finishes that enhance performance it is fair to say that Vapormatt have a large amount of experience with the process.

However, it had to have started somewhere.

Vapormatt has strengthened its position within the surface preparation industry and enhanced its offer for customers with the appointment of Paul Rawlinson as an Application Specialist and Sales Engineer.  Paul brings to Vapormatt more than 30 years’ experience within the industry and this will significantly assist customers in the selection and specification of equipment within the markets that he is responsible for developing: aluminium, aerospace and contract processing operations.

Today I was keen to make the case for wet blasting as an effective process for increasing the die sucess rates in your extrusion plants at the correction stage.

But, before I start have a look at the above die...

This was taken on a recent trip to a customers extrusion plant where I had the opportunity to have a look around their correction shop. As you can see there is quite transformation from untreated (left) to wet blasted (right).

As part of its ongoing development programme, Vapormatt, the leading manufacturer of wet blast systems for edge preparation, has invested in the latest precision measuring system from Alicona. The new IF-EdgeMaster is an optical 3D surface measurement system that plays a crucial role, helping Vapormatt with its ISO9001 quality control procedures and enabling the company to demonstrate to customers the repeatability and accuracy of results that are achievable from its range of 

Vapormatt is a major engineering success story.  We are a world leading specialist wet blast company and have honed the technology into a sophisticated, controlled process that has an ever increasing range of applications across a variety of market sectors.  We design, manufacture and supply high value, manual and automatic surface finishing machines to a growing customer base across the globe.