Soda Blasting offers a range of advantages when it comes to equipment cleaning, making it a preferred choice for various applications. One of its key benefits lies in its non-abrasive properties, which make it suitable for cleaning lighter materials like aluminum, wood, glass, ceramics, plastic, and fiberglass. Unlike sand blasting, soda blasting does not produce heat during the cleaning process, nor does it create pits or surface damage on the materials being cleaned.
This non-abrasive nature of soda blasting ensures that delicate or sensitive surfaces can be effectively cleaned without the risk of causing harm or wear. It is particularly valuable when dealing with equipment or objects that require gentle cleaning and restoration, preserving their integrity and appearance.
Soda blasting stands out as a versatile and gentle method for equipment cleaning, offering the ability to clean a wide range of materials without abrasive effects, making it a valuable choice for various industries and applications.
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Cleaning Heavy Equipment Without Heat
Just because your business uses heavy equipment doesn’t mean you want to clean it with toxic chemicals or harsh abrasives. The petro chemical industry needs to clean tankers and areas where sparks can cause explosions or fire. The same is true for distilleries, lumber mills and in or around mines. The very nature of sand blasting causes sparks.
Soda blasting is a safe and environmentally sound method for stripping grease, oil and paints from drilling rigs, tankers, and trains. In fact, you have more risk of rust settling in after stripping contaminants using sand media. The media used in soda blasting does not damage rubber, plastic, chrome or glass that may be left on the vehicle or equipment being cleaned. Here are some popular requests for equipment cleaning services using soda:
- Reconditioning rooftop air conditioning units
- Cleaning bitumen from road working equipment
- Stripping antifoul off of the hulls of ships, boats and yachts
- Paint stripping cars and tractors for refinishing
- Removing grease, oil or cement from construction equipment
- Stripping pitch and tar from lumber mill equipment
- Bitumen tanker cleaning
- Cleaning glue rollers
- Removing graffiti, grease or paint from fiberglass
- Cleaning oil drilling rigs
- Refurbishing refrigeration units and freezers
- Cleaning ink and grease from printing machines
Benefits of Soda Blasting for Heavy Equipment Cleaning
Soda blasting doesn’t require any preparation steps, pre-cleaning or scraping. In fact, you don’t need to tape off areas to protect them from the media as you must do with sand blasting or chemical dips. The soda media is environmentally safe and you won’t have issues using this in or around natural waterways. Below are additional of the benefits of soda blasting:
- Safely remove carbon and grease from commercial ovens
- Strip graffiti from railroad cars, buses or heavy equipment
- Eliminate use of chemical strippers
- No sparks, heat or fire hazards
- Minimal need for taping or masking
- Reduce outages and production downtime
- Completely mobile equipment cleaning services – we come to you and your equipment
- Clean cracks, corners and tough to reach places
- Rubber hoses, seals and gaskets are not harmed
- 100 Percent environmentally safe, non-toxic and completely biodegradable.
What kinds of equipment can be cleaned?
Plant, tools, moulds, production equipment, racking and machinery, removing grease, paint, resin and product build-up.
Will it damage machined surfaces?
No. Soda is softer than metal and does not profile machined faces, so it can clean moulds and precision parts that grit blasting would damage.
Can it be done on site?
Yes. Equipment is cleaned where it stands in Sydney and NSW, which avoids transport and keeps downtime short.
