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Empire Abrasive Equipment Company, a leading producer of airblast equipment, has purchased Hoffman Blast Room Equipment Inc., an innovator of blast room equipment and systems. Operations, products, designs and intellectual property now fall under the Empire banner as the companies combine operations and personnel at Empire's headquarters and manufacturing facilities in Langhorne, Pennsylvania.
Air-blasting eliminates many of the environmental problems and costs associated with chemical finishing because you don't have to manage or dispose of dangerous liquids.
An Empire blast room provides even greater potential for improving safety and reducing operating costs when you're cleaning, finishing or surface-profiling large work pieces. With the process contained in a specially designed enclosure, blast media and debris are segregated from the external environment. And the operator, equipped with Empire safety gear, is fully protected.
A typical Empire room will pay for itself in less than a year through recycling of media. When “low-cost” abrasives such as sand or slag are used, you have to purchase large amounts of media and get rid of equally large amounts, some of which may be considered hazardous. By relying on a blast room, which recycles blast materials, you can move up to media with breakdown rates of lower than 5% per cycle versus the 100% loss of slag or sand.
Blast Room Slide Presentation (566 KB)
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