Our Clients & Case Studies
We have completed successful projects for many large organisations
Case Studies
Sulzer’s Efficiency Upgrade: A Case Study on Protoblast’s Blast Chamber Transformation
Sulzer, a long-standing customer of Protoblast, has been operating a blast chamber since its initial installation in 1992. Over time, as the company continued to grow, the existing blast chamber was relocated within their facility and a pneumatic recovery system was...
The Benefits of Bringing Blasting and Painting In-House
When it comes to industrial processes like blasting and painting, outsourcing may seem like a convenient option at first. However, it's essential to consider the hidden costs and potential drawbacks associated with this approach. Enhanced Control and Quality...
The Effectiveness of Blast Cleaning
Are you sick of power brushing your structural steel?...... Removing mill scale and rust on the surface of steel sections is part of the process in every fabrication workshop. This process is too often carried out using the well-known power brush, turning into...
Bradken
Read our latest Case Study where we designed, manufactured, delivered and installed a blast chamber within a very tight timeline.
Alfabs
A long-standing customer of Protoblast who has a full recovery blast chamber installed way back in 1996 was looking to keep up with increased demand. The dust collector on the booth was an old wet type of unit that was struggling to keep up with the...
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...
Case Study – Five Steps to Success with JPAK Steel Blast & Paint
Read our latest Case Study where we designed, manufactured, delivered and installed a blast chamber within a very tight timeline.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Some customers and applications include:
- Australian Army, Navy and Air Force – blast chambers for general maintenance applications.
- D.I. – blast chambers and specialised machines including blasting of rocket tubes.
- Bechtel – airless blast for aluminium smelter applications.
- BHP – maintenance
- Dux, Rheem & Solahart – airless blasting of water heater tanks.
- Kempe International – abrasive recovery equipment
- Aluminium smelters in The Middle East – large automated closed wheel
- Nepean Engineering – airless and air blast equipment for a variety of applications, such as preparation of fabrications.
- National Engineering – air and airless blasting of fabrications and pipes.
- Page Steel, Telfords & Vawdrey – airless machines for blast of sections.
- Saunders International – airless blasting of large curved plates for water reservoirs.
- Thompsons Kelly & Lewis – airless blast machine and chambers for foundry applications.
- Norton Australia – blasting of endless sanding belts.
- Chippendale Restorations – refurbishment of antique fireplaces etc.
The above of course, are only a representation of the many applications encountered where Protoblast has been able to provide a successful solution.
We have completed successful projects for many large organisations
