Let’s start with the applications and benefits…

• Surface Preparation for Bonding: Ensures an ultra-clean, uniform surface for optimum adhesive coverage and ultimately maximum bond strength.

• Surface Preparation for Coating: Ensures an ultra-clean, uniform surface for optimum coverage and adhesion of coatings like paints and lacquers.

The answer is quite a lot, and crucially our wet blasting technology is capable of carrying out multiple applications in one operation to dramatically improve productivity.

Here’s what our wet blasting technology can do…

• Cleaning, deburring and finishing in one operation for reduced tool handling costs
• Edge honing to a specific K-Factor for improved durability and longevity

Spallation refers to the phenomenon where a surface coating, such as a layer of paint, thermal barrier coating, or protective film, breaks off, peels, or delaminates from the substrate. This typically occurs due to mechanical stress, thermal cycling, corrosion, or the presence of defects in the bond between the coating and the substrate. Spallation can compromise the coating's performance, leading to premature failure and exposure of the underlying material to environmental or operational hazards.

Common causes of spallation include:

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• Tiger - The industry gold standard for insert manufacturers, the Tiger is our high capacity, highly efficient linear format wet blast, rinsing and drying machine.

• Tiger + Similar to the Tiger, but with an additional blast chamber that allows for an additional wet blast process, or the same process but with higher throughput.

• Jaguar – Highly productive machine that is well suited to processing high volumes of carbide inserts loaded on pallets.

- Sabre - Highly flexible automatic finishing for a broad range of tasks. The machine provides very high levels of control for complex processing.

- Leopard - Well suited to the processing of large composite components with high levels of throughput, especially for taller components like composite fan blades.

- Cougar + Highly versatile mid-range machine. Popular with heavy users thanks to its durability, reliability and repeatability.

The benefits of finishing composite components by wet blasting...

When it comes to enhancing composite component performance, like the composite components of an armoured vehicle, wet blasting has a number of key benefits and advantages...

Main benefits include:

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