Dry blasting
Dry blasting installations
Dry blasting removes rust, mill scale and paint from the part with a dry abrasive and compressed air, without water. Phibo supplies blast pots, blast cabinets, blast rooms, mobile dust-free systems, a mobile air-gumming system, automated installations and microblasting equipment.
- Surface treatment specialist since 1988
- Seven types of installation, from microblasting unit to blast room
- Abrasives and blasting accessories in our own warehouse
- Maintenance, repair and spare parts arranged directly with Phibo
Seven types of installation
Pick the installation that suits your parts
Sandblasting and grit blasting are both dry blasting: only the abrasive differs. The installations differ in what fits inside, and in whether the operator stands beside it, walks into it or takes it to the part.
Blast pots
A pressure vessel that feeds abrasive to the nozzle. Eighteen sizes from 20 to 300 litres, for the workshop, the site or a cabinet.
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Blast cabinets
For loose parts: the operator blasts through gloves inside a closed cabinet. The PRO-impact and ONE-impact lines, plus the ECO cabinet.
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Blast rooms
For steelwork and chassis the operator walks into the room. HALL-impact is the turnkey blast room, STEP-impact the equipment for a walk-in blast room in your own space, HALL-impact Mobile the blasting container.
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Mobile dust-free blasting
The blast head projects the abrasive and extracts it at the same time, in a closed circuit. Five sizes, from 9 to 48 litres of abrasive.
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Mobile air-gumming system
The MCS² works at low pressure, between 2.5 and 4 bar. It takes paint, graffiti and deposits off wood, natural stone, metal and glass.
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Automated installations
Blast cabinets in a special version: a turntable, oscillating blast guns, a drum or a pass-through system. Every part gets the same path, distance and time.
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Microblasting equipment
The Phibo MI200 blasts very small parts with a nozzle of 0.8 to 1.8 mm. For matting, deburring, polishing and satin finishing.
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They rely on Phibo for surface treatment
A selection of Phibo customers in metalworking, aerospace, defence, rail, energy and chemicals.
Before you choose
Four questions decide which installation you need
We go through them with you on the phone before we draw up a proposal.
What do you blast?
Loose parts on a turntable call for a blast cabinet. Frames, chassis and welded structures call for a room the operator walks into.
How often?
Blasting now and then needs no more than a cabinet in the suction version. If the installation runs all day, the pressure version blasts up to three times faster.
Where do you blast?
In the workshop a cabinet or blast room will do. If you have to blast on location, without dust around you, you choose a mobile system in a closed circuit.
How far do you automate?
For series: a cabinet with a turntable, oscillating blast guns, a drum for batch treatment or a pass-through system.
Maintenance and spare parts. They come from Phibo: our own technicians, and abrasives and spare parts from our warehouse.
Wet or dry
Wet blasting and dry blasting: what is the difference?
In wet blasting, a mixture of water and abrasive is driven onto the part by compressed air. In dry blasting, the abrasive hits the part dry, also driven by compressed air. That single difference, the water, decides what comes off the surface and how the part comes out.
Wet blasting
Water and abrasive together, atomised by compressed air. Degreasing, cleaning and finishing happen in one treatment, without dust and without harmful products. The part comes out of the cabinet wet and is rinsed with fresh water.
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Dry blasting
Abrasive in dry form, driven onto the part by compressed air. It removes rust, mill scale and paint layers and sets a rougher profile for the next coat. The cabinet works with extraction and filtration, and the part comes out dry.
View the dry blasting installationsWet blasting and dry blasting side by side
| Feature | Wet blasting | Dry blasting |
|---|---|---|
| What reaches the part | A mixture of water and abrasive, atomised by compressed air | Abrasive in dry form, driven by compressed air |
| Dust | No dust | The cabinet works with extraction and filtration |
| In one treatment | Degreasing, cleaning and finishing together | Cleaning and roughening the surface |
| What it does to the surface | The water buffer keeps the fine grains from embedding in the surface | Sets a rougher profile for the next coat |
| What you choose it for | Parts that have to be degreased and cleaned after overhaul or machining | Removing rust, mill scale and paint before the next coat |
| How the part comes out | Wet; it is rinsed with fresh water | Dry |
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If degreasing and cleaning have to happen together and no dust may be released, wet blasting is the process. If only the soiling has to go without treating the surface, you end up at the industrial parts washers, which work by spraying and immersion.
Consumables
The abrasive decides the finish
The same installation gives a different surface depending on what you send through it. Glass beads matt the surface, aluminium oxide and steel grit work more aggressively.
From our own warehouse
We keep abrasives, spare parts and protective equipment in stock, so you order them from the same partner as the installation.
- Glass beads, ceramic beads and aluminium oxide
- Steel shot and steel grit
- Plastic media, walnut shells and soda
- Blast hoses, nozzles and blast guns
- Blasting tapes and masking material
- Blast helmets and personal protection
Your installation keeps running
Maintenance, repair and spare parts, directly from Phibo, by our own technicians.
Maintenance
Preventive maintenance in our workshop or at your site. After every service your settings and consumption are reviewed.
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Spare parts
Blast pots, hoses, guns, rubber flaps and filter cartridges from stock. Non-standard parts we make ourselves.
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Revision and retrofitting
Modernise an existing installation or convert it to a new process. Revised second-hand installations too.
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Training
Hands-on training at commissioning, standard with SublimotionProcess® and on request with the other installations. When staff change, we repeat it to suit your team.
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Other installations from Phibo
Does the part also need degreasing, or are you after a black protective layer? You will find the installation here.
Wet blast cabinets
Degreasing, cleaning and finishing in one treatment, without dust.
Portable blasting equipment
The MCS², the MVS² and the heavier dust-free systems on one page.
Blackfast blacking lines
Blacking steel at room temperature, with no change in dimensions.
Industrial parts washers
Degreasing parts by spraying or immersion, without treating the surface.
We call you and go through your application
Send us the dimensions and weight of your parts, what has to come off (rust, mill scale or old paint) and how many parts you blast per day. You get a proposal with the installation that fits. One partner, from the first conversation to the last spare part.
- The dimensions and weight of your largest part
- What has to come off the surface
- How many parts you blast per day or per week, and where: in the workshop or on site