Oct 26, 2026 | Abrasive Blasting, Blast Rooms
Every blast room buyer asks about CFM and cartridge count. Far fewer ask the question that decides whether the collector is legal to run: is the dust you’re collecting combustible? If the answer is yes, the dust collector has to be built and installed to NFPA...
Oct 23, 2026 | Abrasive Blasting, Blast Rooms
Half of the blast cabinet and blast room questions we get are really media questions in disguise: how fast will it strip, what profile will it leave, how many times can I recycle it, and will my recovery system handle it. This blast media chart is Kresco’s...
Sep 15, 2026 | Abrasive Blasting
Most abrasive blasting moves the part past a fixed nozzle. Industrial sandblasting robots do the opposite — the part stays put and a robotic arm carries the blast gun around it on a programmed path, holding standoff distance, impingement angle, and dwell time...
Aug 15, 2026 | Abrasive Blasting, Blast Rooms
Every blast room lives or dies by one question: how does the abrasive get back to the pot? The recovery system is the single biggest driver of a blast room’s cost, its floor construction, and how many productive blasting hours you get per shift. Here’s how...
Aug 15, 2026 | Abrasive Blasting, Blast Rooms
If you’re pricing out your first blast room, you’ve probably discovered that nobody publishes a price list. That’s not a sales trick — a blast room is an engineered system, and two rooms with the same footprint can differ in cost by six figures...
Jul 27, 2026 | Abrasive Blasting, Flexographic Printing, Solvent Recycling
If your press operators are bumping ink to hit density targets, the problem usually isn’t the ink — it’s the anilox. Every hour of production drives ink and coating residue deeper into engraved cells. Cell volume (BCM) quietly drops, ink transfer falls...
