Envirosystems Group Cleans Up After Car Restorators

A car’s exterior is the first thing one notices.  Having chipped and damaged paint can make a car look like an older car and can be an eyesore.  Car restoration is another area where customers turn to Envirosystems Group to provide the best blast equipment and booths on the market. Recently, a high quality restoration shop in Calgary, AB, Canada, called on us to build a blast booth with all equipment including media reclaim and dust collection.  Many car shops produce contaminates in the air as a result of the paint being taken off and placed on vehicles.   An effective dust collector can help auto body shop owners and operators reduce emissions of hazardous air pollutants, dust, and volatile organic compounds that may affect auto body repair shop employees, their families, customers, and the community.

The use of an effective dust collection system can definitely reduce cost.  Although many shops use other methods to reduce shop emissions, an Envirosystems Group device can help in bringing down the bill for hazardous waste disposal, and allows for recyclability of any reusable solvents if necessary.

Restorators are now using a Envirosystems Group technology called plastic media blasting (PMB).  This is a dry abrasive blasting process, designed to replace chemical paint stripping and conventional sand blasting. The PMB process does not use hard damaging abrasives, but soft reusable plastic particles to strip paints.  This allows the low pressure and relatively soft plastic medium to have virtually no effect on the surfaces beneath the paint.  The pollution prevention benefits of this technology as compared to sandblasting can be reflected in the reuse of the blasting media, which greatly reduces the volume of spent media generated. When compared to chemical paint stripping, this technology eliminates the generation of waste solvent.

Envirosystems Group built a booth to the customer’s particular size requirements.  In we built a PMB and two 16,000CFM dust collection units to keep the booth clear while blasting. We recommended our StripMaster series for this project.

The StripMaster Series offers the very best of surface preparation and dry media stripping equipment. It removes virtually all surface coatings, build-up and contamination problems.  With the Stripmaster Series, we can custom design systems for the automobile body shops and other industries that need to remove surface coating without mechanical abrasives.  We are proud to have companies call us to build these types of systems, as we know they are looking for high quality equipment to match their high quality workmanship.