Wheelabrator Group broadens horizons and lessens carbon emissions

Sheffield based painting and blasting contractors, Broadblast, is painting the town green thanks to improved efficiency and reduced carbon emissions, courtesy of the Equipment Modernisation Programme (EMP) from surface preparation experts, Wheelabrator Group. 

Broadblast approached the market leaders when the blast wheels on its 1955 Tilghman swing table machine became worn and needed replacing.

Following a four-way pitch, Wheelabrator was chosen to manage and upgrade the modernisation of Broadblast’s existing machine using the latest TITAN blast wheel technology, the newest edition to the EMP. Designed specifically to improve the blast performance and efficiency of existing machinery by up to 40 per cent, it can be adapted to fit virtually any wheel blast machine.

Colm Grant, managing director at Broadblast, said: “We knew the outlay for new equipment was going to be a costly exercise, but by modernising all the existing equipment instead, we now have the flexibility to manage and accommodate our future vision, but at a fraction of the cost.