Blasting Media

Glass Bead Designed for Glass Bead Blasting
Produced from soda-lime, glass beads are used for peening and the removal of almost any surface blemish. They can be used safely for texturing or producing attractive cosmetic finishes, without damaging the base material. Being totally inert, there is no risk of corrosion or any contamination whatsoever. Unless excessive blasting occurs, there is no alteration in the dimensions of the treated surfaces. Strict control of both manufacturing and grading processes ensures consistency of finish.

25 Kg bags shrink wrapped on 1 tonne non-returnable pallets. Order from a bag to a lorry load.

Aluminium Oxide Blasting Media
Virgin Brown Aluminium Oxide is a sharp, fast-working abrasive ideally suited for hand cabinets and blast rooms. Used wet or dry, where ferrous blasting abrasives are not suitable due to the risks of corrosion and magnetisation involved. Ideal for extremely hard workpieces. Reclaimed aluminium oxide is a cheaper alternative to virgin brown but not as cost affective, due to increased breakdown when blasting at high pressures.

50 kg bag (shrink wrap 1 tonne pallet). Order from a bag upwards.

Steel Grit, Steel Shot and Chilled Iron
Steel grit tends to clean a little quicker than shot but breaks down at a faster rate. It is essential that media is kept in a moisture free environment, otherwise it may solidify. Due to the risk of ferrous oxide contamination, steel shot or grits are not suited to certain applications. Surface corrosion may occur after treatment, therefore immediate coating or temporary protection is essential. Metallic abrasives are available in three different types; suitability depends on application. Call Airblast’s technical staff for abrasive to suit your need.

Steel shot is made from high carbon steel which is tempered to give durability and resistance to fracture, used both for peening and cleaning. Typical applications include metal improvement, stress relief, removal of heat treatment residue, mill scale, rust and paint and sand from castings.

Chilled iron grit is a white iron structure which shatters on impact rather than wearing round. Being harder than steel it has a quicker cleaning action. If used in automatic machines it can be less cost effective than steel due to its breakdown rate. Automatic airless machines would also require more frequent spares exchange. Air driven machines are generally the most usual application for chilled iron grit due to their speed and flexibility. The grits are frequently used to etch structural steel and components prior to coating with paint, metal spray or plastics. Usage of chilled cast iron poses the same storage problems of oxidisation as other steel abrasives.

25 Kg bag shrink wrap non-return 1 pallet. Order from a bag to a lorry load.

Copper Slag
Order from a bag to a lorry load. Standard in 50Kg polythene bags, shrink wrap in 1.5 tonne non-return pallet. Available in 25kg bags at extra cost or 1.5 tonne single trip bulk bags to order.

Olivine
Airblast Olivine is a naturally occurring silica free material of low specific density and is available in four sizes. Olivine is particularly good for many light blasting applications, and has proven very popular with expendable users. It is sand coloured and highly suitable for wet blasting and building cleaning where darker medias may cause a nuisance, for instance on clean up or with impingement. Airblast Olivine being iron free and containing no free silica can also be used on stainless steel and aluminium surfaces for coating preparation or removal applications.

Available in standard 50kg vapour sealed lined paper sacks packed on 1.25 tonne pallets, or purchased by the bag.

Plastic Media for PMD or Plactic Media Blasting / Plastic Bead Blasting
Plastic Media, available to Industrial or MIL specifications. British-made media with excellent attributes and keen prices. For selective or delicate coating removal on high value products. Packed in 25 Kg cartons. Process is faster, cheaper and environmentally more acceptable than chemical stripping.

Ceramic Bead
Ceramic bead is used for peening, being of similar specified weight to glass beads and doing the same job, but lasting longer and giving greater economy of process.

Packed in 25 Kg paper lined bags.

Ceramic Bead
These are used for de-flashing operations and paint removal. Including calcium carbonate, for paint removal on very light metals, plastics, and site work in place of plastic media. Various abrasives are available: crushed almond shell, crushed walnut shell, crushed coconut shell, crushed egg shell and corn cob.

Packed in 25 Kg bags.

Glass Grit
Amber Grit originally designed for the manufacture of abrasive paper has fast become one of our best selling recyclable blast abrasives. The volumes that we produce of this material enable us to offer it to you at most competitive rates.

International Standard Finishes
Old International surface finish standards (shown below) are now consolidated into ISO 8501.

Our wide variety of specialised abrasives for blasting are too varied to list on our site, these include such exotic media's such as silicon carbide grit blast media, corn cob grit abrasive, walnut shell, soda blast abrasive, stainless steel grit and stainless steel shot etc.

For more details please contact us