Vacuum Blasting Equipment

Restrictive environmental legislation and a greater awareness of health hazards were the main reasonsfor Airblast to develop a range of vacuum blasting equipment. The advantages of the equipmentare not limited to preventing environmental and health problems, in many applications it is alsoa fully justified method of surface preparation on an economic basis.In comparison to blast cleaning where abrasive and dust are not contained, it is possible to worklonger periods with a vacuum blast unit, since there is virtually no time and money spent for cleaning-upand site-enclosure. Additionally, disposal costs of hazardous waste is minimal,caused by the use of recyclable abrasives, so the amount of abrasivesused is much lower than compared with open-blasting.The equipment has many applications. Besides for construction and maintenance of ships,the equipment can also be used for the maintenance of bridges, machinery,power plants or for the renovation of concrete.