Surface Preparation - Shotblasting
Blasting with Chilled Iron Grit
The Irvine facility is capable of handling large or heavy components, made possible by the generous capacity of the main shot / chilled iron grit blast room and the 10 tonne forklift. With dimensions of 13 M x 3M x 3M, the main blasting room allows us to batch process high volumes of smaller components and accommodate large singular items, with anchor profile measurement and cleanliness to SAE2.5/SAE 3.0.
Blasting with Aluminium Oxide
Our second blast room measures 3M x 2.5M x 2.5M, where we use Aluminium Oxide to prepare the surface anchor profiling of stainless steel and other non-carbon steel manufactured components.
Glass Bead Polishing
Our third blast room is for glass bead blasting to facilitate "polishing" on threaded components, or to clean the welded areas on stainless steel or other exotics to ensure non-contamination from blasting debris.
Regenerative Desiccant Dryer
We are able to cater for paint specifications which specify super low moisture content in the air used in the blasting process.
The regenerative desiccant drying system, installed in the compressed air feed for the blast rooms, ensures that we can guarantee an air supply into the blasters which would have a freezing point of -40'c.
A separate refrigerated and filtered air supply for operative breathing and body cooling has been installed to advance environmental working conditions for personnel. In line with all of Surface Technology plc's production facilities, the Irvine facility operate with ISO 9001 and 14001 accreditation.
