Unistor

A family business in the structural steel industry was looking to bring more efficiency into its process. Their core line was building mezzanines, so they use a lot of standard structural steel sections and were power brushing these prior to painting. This was labor intensive, had safety issues, and did not provide a good key […]

Case Study – Big Client Savings

Recently we worked with a client in central NSW who had a blast chamber with a small dust collector and a very basic abrasive recovery system. They contacted us because they wanted to run more efficiently and save on consumption and labour.   The Challenges Faced: Client was having to shovel the abrasive into a […]

Case Study – OnGas

We were faced with a new challenge for a client in New Zealand called OnGas. We were engaged by them back in 2015 as they were looking at the feasibility of shot blasting 9kg gas bottles at their proposed bottle swap and refilling facility. The mission was that they needed to blast clean their bottles […]

Heavy Duty Full recovery Blast chamber

This job was recently completed by Protoblast for one of our resellers. It was supplied to a turbine refurbishment company who use glass beads as the media to clean the surfaces of their products. The products were also very heavy so due to the need to have a full recovery system the floor structure had […]

Installation of a Protoblast Section Blast

This was another successful installation of a Protoblast Section Blast. This was installed at an engineering company in Sydney for blasting sectional steel used for fire stairs prior to fabrication. The customer did his research and look at all the options and came back to the Protoblast system as they were the most reliable and […]

Maxi-Build Blast Chamber re-build for prior customer

This Maxi-Build Blast Chamber was recently built for an old customer of Protoblast. They were moving premises and were going to relocate their existing chamber but the buyers of the property requested that it become part of the sale. So to put it the customers words “going with Protoblast was a no brainer, as the […]

Saunders Automatic Blast Machine Upgrade

Saunders International are a long standing customer of Protoblast having purchased an Automatic Vertical Plate Blast Machine from Protoblast in 1995 and a small Sandblasting Cabinet in 1998. Recent purchases they made in the way of new production equipment meant that they were operating much more efficiently than 20 years ago but the Blast Machine was […]

Tyree Transformers Abrasive Blast Facility

Tyree Transformers in Braemar NSW used the abrasive blasting/ sand blasting technique to prepare the external and internal surfaces of their power transformers before coating. They had been out-sourcing most of the blasting and doing what they could in a small shed with no abrasive recovery. Due to growing demand for their products an expansion […]