Media Blast Increases Profitability of Industrial Abrasive Blasting Cabinets 

Only one manufacturer of Industrial Abrasive Blasting Cabinets truly prioritizes abrasive recycle efficiency. Media Blast® is committed to continuous design innovation regarding separator reclaimers. The goal is to maximizes abrasive recycle rates because replacing abrasive is among the highest operational expenses for users. 

Abrasive Separators must deliver both efficiency and optional wear protection, remove the dust, and recycle all the good abrasive with lowest possible good abrasive loss.  The most common way to achieve this is using a pneumatic conveyor and external separator reclaimer.  Media Blast® offers both Internal and External Abrasive Separator Reclaimers in Standard Efficiency and High Efficiency configurations.

Pro Tip: All manually operated Industrial Abrasive Blasting Cabinets can safely deliver 10 pounds of abrasive per minute. This isn’t referencing Non-Industrial Gun Sizes for slower, Hobbyist applications, but rather the highest CFM gun sizes used to maximize profitability. This excludes portable units where operators wear protective suits while standing firmly on the ground holding safety controls with even higher CFM requirements. For applications not requiring maximum gun sizes, Media Blast® also manufactures Industrial Micro Models using many of the same Industrial Dust Collectors that deliver high abrasive volumes.

Using Math to Explain the ROI of Industrial Abrasive Blasting Cabinets

At 10 pounds of abrasive per minute, theoretical output equals 600 pounds of abrasive hourly, 4,800 pounds ofabrasive daily, and 1,248,000 pounds of abrasive annually. This is calculated using a standard 260-day work year with single 8-hour shifts. Understand that theoretical and actual pedal-on time are never the same. These calculations represent single-shift operations, meaning these numbers can increase significantly with extended daily hour operations! This is precisely why Media Blast® developed the DDC (Daily Duty Cycle) Guide for our equipment, ensuring users maximize profitability by selecting appropriate models for their specific applications, abrasive requirements, and CFM needs.

Actual Pedal-On-Time for Industrial applications realistically reaches 75% of theoretical maximum, but accounting for Part Loading/Unloading, Inspection, and Handling, we’ll calculate using 50% Pedal-On-Time for this example.

Total abrasive moved by a single gun easily reaches 624,000 pounds annually at 50% pedal-on time. For single-use abrasive applications (which do exist), at an average cost of $1.00 per pound, operational expenses would reach $624,000.00 annually with our estimated 50% pedal-on time. $624,000.00 in annual abrasive expense is significant. Apply these calculations to your equipment to evaluate your current recycling efficiency. Higher recycling rates generate substantial cost savings like improving fuel economy. Media Blast has the most efficient and highest separator reclaimer recycle rates.

Higher Abrasive Recycle Rates Directly Lower the Cost of Abrasive Blasting Cabinets

Recycle rates are a critical factor for cost-conscious operators. Some manufacturers focus exclusively on Modular Separators with Pneumatic Conveyors for Industrial Abrasive Blasting Cabinets. Media Blast® offers two fundamental separator reclaimer types—Internal and External—both designed for space efficiency. Recycling efficiency reaches peak levels with all Media Blast® Separator Reclaimers. Both Internal and External configurations offer high-efficiency options to reduce operational costs across Industrial applications. 

Media Blast®: A History of Excellence

Media Blast® bases dust collector sizing on Application Notes from Industrial users rather than standardized offerings. While we provide Industrial Models with standard dust collector configurations, our background in Dust Collector Manufacturing enables us to offer upgrades and options suitable for any application up to 100% DDC.

Our Industrial abrasive blasting cabinets achieve recycling of 25-micron media with virtually zero recycle loss, leaving only abrasive wear as a consumption factor. Testing confirms our high-efficiency cyclones achieve over 90% efficiency even with 5-micron media. While 5-micron abrasive requires additional flow assistance, our Wet Blasting Models routinely operate with abrasive sizes down to 600 mesh.

We are Media Blast® & Abrasive Inc., a 50-year-old company that has consistently manufactured Wet and Dry, Siphon, Gravity Feed, and Direct Pressure Cabinet Models. We also produce our own Dust Collectors and higher-CFM Radial Blowers using smaller horsepower motors, enabling us to offer Abrasive Blasting Cabinets with 100% DDC capabilities. Media Blast® may not be the largest competitor in the industry, but at 50 years, we believe we’re the most agile and innovative! Making cabinets our product line, staying away from bridges, ships, roads, and buildings gives us a manufacturing cost advantage. We are not lessor because we cost less, but best value for the dollar spent. Give us a call to learn more about how our machines can optimize your production output and increase your ROI.