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.

Environmentally Safe Industrial Surface Remover

As the world's leading brewer, AB InBev which includes Michelob, is meant to be enjoyed responsibly by those of legal drinking age.  They produce a product that brings people together, while at the same time conveying the message that good times must be balanced by great responsibility.

It's always good to see a company follow through with the commitment of being responsible, especially where the environment is in question.  With *48.3% Market Share in the United States, it takes hundreds of trucks in the distributors delivery fleet to distribute the cans and bottles across the United States.  This amount of driving can really put a tremendous amount of wear and tear on trucks. And being a the #1 beer provider in America, with several different products, trying to keep the brand graphics in premier condition can be a daunting task.

So how do you remove decals from ground transportation vehicles in a responsible way?  Plastic Media Blasting (PMB).  This form of plastic media stripping, similar to sand blasting without the damage that is normally a result of sand blasting.  PMB is the quickest, safest, surface remover, and it's reusable.  Tough to remove vinyl decals are stripped from the surfaces of aluminum, steel, fiberglass, magnesium, composites, plastic, and rubber with simplicity and economically.

I know what you are thinking; what about paint, and enamel?  Plastic Media Blasting is the surface removal solution for not just paint and enamel, but lacquer, polyurethane, powder coatings, and primers can also be safely removed without damage to the underlying surface.

These pictures show the AB InBev Michelob truck having its decal removed with plastic media. In just few hours the brand logo is removed from the aluminum truck without harming the surface.

The Land Transportation Refinishing Industry solution for protecting the environment is plastic media blasting and Envirosystems Group (ESG) the source with it's Stripmaster Blasting Equipment specifically designed to ensure accuracy, speed, and great responsibility.






*Anheuser-Busch InBev 2010 Guide to Business | Our Top 10 Markets / Our 14 “Billion Dollar Brands” (Download PDF)