Extrusion Die Cleaning

To reduce the damage caused by soft shot blast cleaning of extrusion dies, Vapormatt have developed a Die Cleaning System using a mixture of water, fine aluminous oxide, and compressed air, which does little or no damage to sharp edges and fine profiles.

In-Line Wire Processing

Cleaning continuous wire / strip and short length rod by the Vapormatt process. A compact special-purpose Vapormatt Machine has been developed to remove heat treatment oxides, and lacquer, oil and grease, from wire, rod and strip. The unit has been designed to fit into the wire drawing or rod production line.

Composite Pre-Treatment To Bonding

To enable successful bonding of like to like composites, and indeed, composites to other normally incompatible materials, Vapormatt have developed - using their Patented Slurry / Air Pumping System, a unique way of surgically cleaning with simultaneous keying of composite surfaces without damage to fibres or the “lay-up” of the composite.

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Precision Rubber & Plastic Mould Cleaning

Vapormatt's new Liquid Lapping Process ; our environmentally friendly process is faster, the possibility of damage to the mould tool is removed; washing, scrubbing and debris removal is achieved in one process and heat can be retained in the mould.

Wheel Washing - Wheel De-Painting

Ideal process for washing and de-painting undercarriage parts, brake components, control surfaces, and many other cleaning operations.

Aircraft Toilet Cleaning

Vapormatt Limited have applied their wet blasting expertise and technology to the difficult task of overhauling aircraft toilet systems and found that dramatic savings in cleaning time can be achieved by using the Vapormatt Process. Improvements to the surface finish of the cleaned parts have also been noted and the bio-hazard exposure risk is greatly reduced.

Peening and Wet Peening

Any part subject to twisting or bending stress is likely to benefit from peening. The process is ideal when applied to irregular shapes where heat treatments may cause distortion. It is ideal for the treatment of fillets, grooves or unsupported edges or anywhere where sudden changes in form occur. (Such changes are commonly noted as fatigue fracture causes).

PCB Conformal Coating Removal

In the Electronics Industry today, circuit boards are extensively tested during production and generally very reliable. However, when failures occur, it has often been thought best to throw away a complete board rather than replace the individual failed component.

Inexpensive Repair -Not Expensive Replacement.

Maintenance Cleaning

Whenever equipment is serviced, maintained, reconditioned or repaired, it is necessary to clean it to some extent. In fact the only requirement is often to clean, inspect, and then to re-use or scrap. So cleaning becomes a vital but often overlooked operation.

Small Component Cleaning - Nuts, Bolts, and Washers

During the overhaul of aero engines and similar mechanisms, fitters remove all the components for cleaning prior to inspection. The resultant pile of expensive nuts, bolts and washers need to be cleaned too.

Starter Motor - Alternator Cleaning

Re-manufactured small parts batch cleaning trials conducted in the Vapormatt Vapormaster 1210 Barrel Machine.

Vacuum Pump Overhaul

The vacuum pump overhaul industry typically depends upon harsh chemical and detergent washing systems, followed by either hand scrubbing or dry blasting to clean pump components. In addition many of these pumps contain high level contaminants which have to be handled in clean room conditions. Vapormatt have been successful in replacing and improving these traditional cleaning methods with a combination of the Vapormatt Liquid Abrasive Process, along with High Pressure Hot Water which is used for general purpose cleaning and degreasing when abrasive scrubbing is either not required or undesirable.

Degreasing & Contamination Removal for Combustion Engines

Vapormatt's unique Patented Wet Media Pumping System has enabled them to develop a process for simultaneous removal of oil / grease and surface contamination, such as corrosion, carbon, and paint from all parts of combustion engines! This includes intricate items, i.e. cylinder heads and engine blocks.

Prosthetic Implant Surface Conditioning

Wet blasting is well known within the orthopaedic manufacturing world as the accepted procedure for surface finishing of prosthetic components, due to a number of advantages over other finishing techniques.

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Propellant & Material Fines Removal for Gun Barrels

Vapormatt's wet slurry pumping system has been developed using bespoke designed equipment to create a unique method of cleaning virtually any size of gun barrels - from small side arms, to large artillery weapons.

Abradable Coatings Removal

To reduce the use of chemicals and the dangers and costs involved with high pressure cleaning systems, Vapormatt, after considerable development work, have perfected and now introduced our environmentally friendly and safe cleaning and stripping system for the removal of abradable coatings.

Lost Wax Castings

Vapormatt have now become market leaders in replacing existing highly toxic and expensive chemical cleaning methods, commonly used in the jewellery trade, with their wet blast process.

Vaporblack Process

The Vaporblack process, developed jointly by Vapormatt and Blackfast Chemicals, enables parts to be processed at room temperature employing a special chemical that is far more environmentally friendly than conventional solutions and non-hazardous to operators. Typical process time is less than five minutes, compared with the 45 minutes needed for traditional blacking.

Phosmatt - Phosphating Process

Vapormatts' "Phosmatt" system offers in a single operation - simultaneous degreasing, cleaning, etching, and phosphating. In most cases the only additional stations are a post-phosphating rinse and drying. The savings in space and time can be spectacular.

Shoe Sole Cleaning

Whenever equipment is serviced, maintained, reconditioned or repaired, it is necessary to clean it to some extent. In fact the only requirement is often to clean, inspect, and then to re-use or scrap. So cleaning becomes a vital but often overlooked operation.

TV Tube Plunger Cleaning

Vapormaster "Special Purpose" machine for cleaning and surface finishing of TV plunger tools. The machine is a wet blast cabinet for treating the surface of NiW plated screen plungers using aluminous oxide. Vapormatting is a dust-free process which eliminates the danger of hazardous NiW particles entering the workplace environment.

Water Effluent Treatment

Vapormatt offer Sentinel Water Treatment Plants that treat heavy metals such as silver, zinc, cadmium, copper, lead, chromium, together with particulate and petroleum distillate pollutants, to a level of cleanliness for liquid re-use or disposal in the normal drainage system. Any flow rate can be accommodated - Standard Units cover the range of 500 to 5,000 litres per 8 hours.

Decomatt

Decomatt is today's answer for cleaning and decontaminating radioactive parts and equipment in nuclear establishments. Proven in nuclear power stations throughout the world, Liquid Abrasive Decontamination provides for controlled cleaning and free release of components, tools and parts for reuse or for conventional disposal.