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As the sophistication of marine coatings increases, so too does the demand placed on surface preparation. All our marine blast and paint facilities incorporate climate and humidity controls. These enable accurate environment management for faster production times and higher quality results.

Airblast marine facilities can be found in the UK, USA, Canada, Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Each project is delivered to the highest technical standards with our renowned first-class service levels.

Airblast designed a number of environmentally controlled buildings for leading offshore turbine blade manufacturers. Our largest to date is designed to accommodate an 80m turbine blade and was ventilated to meet the exacting requirements of the paint specification. It is fitted out to be utilised as a paint spray and bake facility.

We designed and installed a climatically and temperature-controlled blast and paint hall, featuring a rapid recovery elevator capable of moving up to 30 tonnes of metallic abrasive an hour. In addition, we supplied a vacuum recovery system for blasting within vessel sections, as well as paint hall ventilation, and climate control equipment.

Airblast has also built a facility that provides four climatically controlled blast and paint cells to accommodate large marine vessel structures. Each seven-story high blast cell is equipped with its own independent vacuum grit recovery system capable of removing 20 tonnes of steel abrasive per hour from confined spaces on the vessel. Each cell also has a ‘sweep to a point’ mechanical recovery equipment for the abrasive used to prepare the hull to SA 2.5. The paint cells provide both confined space ventilation and general overspray removal from around the hull.