Blasting cabinet
In this machine surface cleanliness is achieved by abrasive blasting with small steel particles called steel grit. The system is similar to using sand but has many advantages.
The blaster has a recovery and reprocessing system of the granules. There is also a crane and a rail structure with trolleys for handling objects.
Futuro has two such machines and the larger one can attend to objects up to 12m long, 3.20 m wide and 3.50 m high. The maximum weight that can be loaded is 16 metric tons.
Advantages:
Quality
Steel grit leaves a more angular anchor profile than sand. It also ensures a constant pattern, which does not happen with sand. A good anchor profile guarantees an optimum adherence of paint to the substrate.
Health care and environment, dust control:
Steel grit does not break on impact and causes little dust. The resulting powder is iron oxide and presents little harm to the body.
Comparatively quartz sand is mostly fractured on impact and causes a lot of dust. Sand dust is harmful to health and causes silicosis or the miner’s disease in a medium term. This disease has no cure.
Less time working at heights:
In conducting abrasive blasting work in a workshop many man-hours working at height are avoided. This way risk is lowered and job advance is improved. The costs will be less too.
Advance:
The grit blaster can be operated 24 hours a day. Slow on site blasting will be avoided.
Punctuality:
There are fewer setbacks due to rain or strong winds and schedules can be met. Factors such as on site inaccessibility, blockades, lack of inputs will have less effect.
Lower final costs:
The more expensive part is done in shop, within the city. This means less workers and lower costs on site.