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Is Surface Preparation Below Your Radar?

Compromising coating performance is your decision. Allowing power-tools, water-blasting, poor quality abrasive blasting or perhaps nothing at all, can start an immediate and accelerated cycle of corrosion and repair. Protect your assets and choose performance with a quality coating system prepared by Sponge Blasting; achieve a 30-year coating system with reduced maintenance! Don’t allow “minor” overlooks such as:

  • Weld seams
  • Girders
  • Confined spaces
  • Engineering spaces
  • Engine rooms
  • Erection and construction joints
  • Doors, hatches, tie-downs and fit-out items
  • Touch-up and repairs

Improve ship availability and reduce cost due to delays, repairs, additional surveys and extended docking. The high angularity of dry, low dust, low ricochet Sponge-Jet Sponge Media™ abrasives, allow you to prepare the critical points of your vessel to the highest quality standard.

Features & Benefits

  • Increased Asset Life and Coating Performance
  • Reliability of Schedule & Budget
  • Improve Community Relations & Compliance
  • Efficiently Comply with Changing Regulations
  • Simplified Job Staging
  • IMO Compliant – No Power Tooling

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  • Blasting Ship Infrastructure Blocks Corrosion; Helps Extend Long Operational Life

    The Sponge-Jet blasting of deck beams and parts of transverse frames is a valuable practice because it assures highest quality surface preparation in high-corrosion areas like nuts, bolts, joints, welds, and steel edges

  • Sponge Blasted Ballast Tanks Pass Ten Years of Fully Functional and Intact Coatings

    Sponge-Jet was used to prepare ballast tanks and erection welds by Sumitomo Shipyard on the first double-acting ship in the world; the crude oil tanker, Tempera was recently inspected. Over ten years later it revealed her ballast tanks to have fully functional and intact coatings.

  • High-quality Sponge-Jet Surface Preparation on Weld Seams and Critical Area Corrosion

    Example of ballast tank weld seam that was Sponge-Jet blasted in LeHavre, France to SA3 (NACE 1 / SSPC SP-5), White Metal Blast cleanliness.

  • Sponge-Jet Out-Performs Hand-tooling in Speed and Coating Longevity

    On this bulk carrier hull, Sponge-Jet was faster than five simultaneous hand-tool operators in preparing weld seams for coatings - and was able to leave an 87-micron (3.5mil) specified profile.

  • Chilean Navy’s Only Option for Abrasive Blasting in Engine Room of Oscar Viel Toro

    Ordinary abrasives were prohibited on a recent pipe coating project aboard the Chilean Navy’s Antarctic Icebreaker, the “Oscar Viel Toro”; the only product specified and used was low dust Silver Sponge Media™ abrasives; the reason was the job’s proximity to the engine (with dust susceptible valves, pumps and rotating fixtures).

  • Canadian DND Specifies Sponge-Jet as Replacement Abrasive on the Submarines

    Sponge-Jet abrasives are used for restoring pressure hull and outer shell mounts (removing tile adhesive and corrosion); Canadian Department of National Defense and NAVSEA have approved the use of Sponge-Jet as a replacement for ordinary abrasives.

  • Other Trades Effectively Work on Ship Propulsion System While Operator Sponge-Blasts

    A Sponge Blaster at SLS Shipyard Co. Ltd. (Korea) cleans and profiles weld seams after construction on the hull of this ship is completed; dust and rebound suppression during this type of blasting allows for other trades to work simultaneously and in close proximity.

  • Abrasive Blasting this Tank During Inspection; Possible Only with Sponge-Jet

    Sponge-Jet abrasive blasting in the tank of a chemical tanker at SLS Shipyard Co. Ltd. (Korea); The ability to inspect and/or schedule work nearby Sponge Blasting is precisely why shipyards are able to cut days from new build and refit projects.

  • Enhanced Visibility and Safety Realized by this SLS (Korea) shipyard Sponge Blaster

    Sponge-Jet abrasive blasting in the ballast tank of a chemical tanker at SLS Shipyard Co. Ltd. (Korea) after block erection is completed; note the enhanced visibility and safety with which the blaster works in while using Sponge Media™ abrasives.

  • Sponge-Jet Used To Prepare Hull on “Issham Al Baher” - the World's 17th Largest Yacht

    Goals were to remove coating, add resin layer and new coating but in a small commercial port versus a large shipyard (saving well over $200,000)… goals achieved and only possible by using low dust Sponge Media™ abrasives which protected neighboring town from potentially harmful fugitive emissions.

  • Two Sponge Blasters Effectively Spot-blast BMLP barge; Note Low Dust

    Two Sponge Blasters conduct hull repair on a BMLP barge at Buchanan Marine; shipyard location is next to residential neighborhood. The town relies on tourism so Buchanan uses Sponge-Jet abrasives to trap dust at the source.

  • Sponge-Jet used on New-build Workboat Hull for Incredible Visibility and Job Cleanliness

    Two Sponge-Jet blasters prepare the hull of a new z-drive tug boat at Washburn and Doughty shipyard; Note the project cleanliness and near perfect visibility which made the specification of a SA3 (NACE 1 / SP-5) White Metal Blast cleanliness level (in a single pass) easily achievable.

  • Blasting New-build Hull at Waterside Without Dust Issues no Problem Using Sponge-Jet

    Low dust, Sponge-Jet blasting the hull of a new z-drive tug boat at Washburn and Doughty shipyard; Note the ocean just meters/feet from blasting operations, which would normally be prohibited when using ordinary abrasives – but not with Sponge-Jet according to operators.

  • Entire Structure of New York Water Taxis Are Sponge Blasted

    Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding and Sponge-Jet help thousands get to work each day; Sponge-Jet is used to prepare aluminum substrates of every New York Water Taxi for coating; Reasons... Gladding-Hearn has desire to recycle and reduce abrasive disposal volume/weight and they can blast in-doors with multiple ships in process during blasting and without interruption.

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  • Extending Barge Life Case History on Barge Restoration

    PDF technical paper describes benefits of bringing barge blasting operations in house and using Spon…

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  • Marine Application Index

    Brochure that shows marine industry use of Sponge-Jet low-dust abrasive blasting.

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  • Marine Overview Video

    Sponge-Jet’s low dust abrasive blasting technology is widely used in the marine industry by mi…

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  • Prep for Life Marine Maintenance Tech

    PDF magazine article describes modern marine coating’s higher anchor profile requirements and the …

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