Vapormatt

Vapormatt The Vapormatt Group, designs and manufactures manual and automatic surface cleaning systems.

We are proud that the name of Vapormatt is synonymous with high quality cleaning and surface preparation across industry - from automotive and general engineering to aerospace and nuclear decontamination - and in sectors ranging from tooling to wire cleaning and extrusion die polishing. Our wide range of machines delivers high quality surface performance economically and efficiently, whatever the

size or type of application. Vapormatt designs thus play a key role in ensuring our customers’ own high standards of production are fulfilled, whether via an in-house installation or through our dedicated Vapormatt Contract Process Centres.

The Vapormatt Puma+ is ideal for the surface finishing demands of medical and dental implant manufacturing. For manufact...
10/06/2026

The Vapormatt Puma+ is ideal for the surface finishing demands of medical and dental implant manufacturing. For manufacturers where every surface specification carries clinical and regulatory weight, it delivers the process control, consistency, and validation-ready performance the sector requires.

Implant surfaces carry multiple functional zones, each with a precise finishing requirement. The osseointegration zone demands a controlled micro-rough surface, typically between 1.0 and 4.0 microns Ra, whilst articulation surfaces require a fundamentally different finish in close proximity. The Puma+ achieves both, with fully controllable and fully recordable parameters that support regulatory submission.

Where competing processes fail, wet blasting holds. Dry blasting embeds abrasive into titanium and cobalt-chrome surfaces, creating a biocompatibility risk that is difficult to defend in an audit. The Puma+ avoids this issue completely, and supports biocompatible calcium-phosphate media, removing any contamination risk from the process.

Additively manufactured implants arrive from the printer with surface roughness values that can exceed 30 microns Ra and internal channels carrying un-sintered powder. The Puma+ addresses both in a single automated cycle, refining the surface whilst the liquid slurry simultaneously flushes channels clear.

If you are reviewing your implant finishing process, visit our medical and dental implant industry page to learn more about the benefits of wet blasting: https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0w2rlz0

09/06/2026

If your die shop is cleaning more than 10 dies a day, the wet blast machine configuration you choose matters as much as the process itself.

The Cougar+ comes in three distinct configurations, and choosing the wrong one costs you throughput you will never recover.

The standard Cougar+ suits lower-volume operations. A single turntable, load capacity of 450kg, and a working envelope up to 1,200mm diameter. If your volumes sit below 10 dies per day, this is where you start.

The single load end configuration increases load capacity to 1,000kg and allows the turntable to slide fully out of the cabinet. In a die shop where heavy tooling moves by overhead crane, that distinction is imporant.

The twin load end configuration removes dead time entirely. While one turntable is being cleaned, the second is being loaded. High-volume operations running up to 300 dies per day run this configuration.

Across all three, the result is the same: bearing surfaces clean enough to inspect with confidence, porthole geometries reached that shot blasting cannot access, and die profiles that emerge dimensionally intact.

Tell us your daily die volumes and current setup and we will give you a direct answer on which configuration fits.

Learn more and contact us: https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0v_YbS0

A 5% increase in current carrying capacity. Same conductor. Same cross-section.It comes from the surface finish alone.We...
08/06/2026

A 5% increase in current carrying capacity. Same conductor. Same cross-section.

It comes from the surface finish alone.

Wet blasting raises aluminium conductor emissivity from approximately 0.5 to 0.8, increasing heat dissipation at the same operating temperature and delivering measurably greater ampacity. It also meets ASTM B979 in a single inline pass, with no secondary cleaning required before reeling.

Dry blasting can achieve the same specification, but wet blasting achieves it without airborne dust and related operator health risks, contamination of the finished conductor, and with a more consistent / uniform finish.

Vapormatt has supplied inline finishing systems (mainly our Porfelis automatic wet blasting machine), to overhead conductor manufacturers across North America and Europe for over fifteen years. If you're specifying conductor finishing equipment, we would be glad to discuss your requirements and arrange a sample trial.

Learn more: https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0v-Yjl0

Most continous rotart extrusion (CRE) operators assume inconsistent output is a feedstock problem. More often, it's a su...
05/06/2026

Most continous rotart extrusion (CRE) operators assume inconsistent output is a feedstock problem. More often, it's a surface preparation problem.

CRE is unforgiving. The wheel grips rod by friction alone, and any oxide layer, scale, or residual lubricant carried into the groove gets pulled through into the extruded product, where it causes porosity, blister defects, and conductivity loss. There is no correcting it downstream.

Our Profelis automatic Wet blasting machine removes oxides, scale, and lubricants uniformly across the full 360-degree rod surface, without embedding media or altering dimensions. Integrated rinsing and drying mean the rod enters the extrusion zone clean and ready, with no additional handling.

The result: stable line speeds up to 30 m/min, fewer stoppages, and the freedom to run lower-grade feedstock, including rod stored outdoors, without compromising output quality.

Learn more: Continuous rotary extrusion | Vapormatt (https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0vYwXz0)

Bone integration starts at the surface. So does compliance failure...Whether bone integrates or rejects, whether a coati...
04/06/2026

Bone integration starts at the surface. So does compliance failure...

Whether bone integrates or rejects, whether a coating bonds or delaminates, whether a regulatory audit passes or stalls, it all traces back to surface finishing.

And yet much of the implant manufacturing industry still relies on processes specified decades ago.
Dry blasting embeds abrasive particles into titanium surfaces. Vibratory finishing can't deliver the zonal surface finish control that orthopaedic implants require. Drag finishing struggles with complex geometries, leaving articulation and osseointegration surfaces finished inconsistently on the same component.

Wet blasting solves all those issues. A Vapormatt machine like the Puma+ controls slurry concentration, pressure, media profile, and cycle time, all fully recordable and validatable. It achieves the micro-rough textures that optimise bone cell adhesion, typically between 1.0 and 4.0 microns Ra, and can finish articulation surfaces to a different specification on the same component.

For additive manufactured implants, the liquid slurry flushes internal channels while refining the surface simultaneously, providing visible confirmation that channels are clear. Something dry processes cannot replicate.

Learn more: https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0vVnMq0

03/06/2026

PVD coating failures don't happen at the coater. They happen at the prep stage, or the lack of it.

Before a PVD coating bonds properly to a solid round tool, the substrate needs to be clean, activated, and consistent. Dry processes can't reliably deliver that without introducing micro-cracking.

The Vapormatt Oncilla automatic wet blasting machine was built for exactly this problem.

Fine aluminium oxide in a water cushion cleans, activates, and conditions the surface in one controlled pass. The gantry robot picks each tool by the base, lowers it into the blast stream, and processes it without touching the cutting edges. Every variable is locked. Every tool in the batch reaches the coater in the same defined condition. Not approximately. Repeatably.

The Oncilla even follows helical profiles with patented micro nozzles, delivering targeted blast streams to exactly where the coating needs to bond.

Learn more: https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0vTVHC0

Aluminium extrusion die cleaning doesn't end with the caustic dip...Every extrusion die shop knows the cycle. Caustic so...
02/06/2026

Aluminium extrusion die cleaning doesn't end with the caustic dip...

Every extrusion die shop knows the cycle. Caustic soak, shot blast or manual polish, back to the press. It works, until it doesn't.

The caustic dip removes bulk aluminium efficiently. What it leaves behind, fine residual particles, carbonisation, and heat discolouration on the bearing surface, is precisely what makes accurate die inspection difficult. If your inspection is compromised, everything downstream is compromised before it starts.

Wet blasting removes what shot blasting cannot reach. A calibrated slurry of abrasive media suspended in water navigates complex port geometries uniformly, flushes caustic trace from recesses, and leaves the bearing surface clean enough to inspect with confidence, without altering die geometry in the process.

Fewer faults missed at inspection. Fewer dies pulled mid-run. Die corrector time spent on correction, not preparation.

Learn more about the applications and advantages of cleaning extrusion dies by wet blasting.

01/06/2026

Our CEO, Robin Ashworth, recently travelled to Dalian, China, to share his expertise on a subject close to our hearts: the transformative power of wet blasting for cutting tools.

Hosted by our valued regional partners Asia Consult, the presentation was delivered to key figures across China's tool manufacturing industry.

From cleaning and deburring to edge honing, coating preparation and post-coat processing, the talk walked attendees through the full spectrum of wet blasting benefits for cutting tools - at the end Robin was on hand to field a wave of questions from the highly engaged audience.

It's always exciting to see our world leading wet blast technology resonate on a global stage.

Learn more about wet blasting applications for solid round tools: https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0vNN6F0

Wet blasting reaches New Zealand's biggest engineering stage...This week, our New Zealand partner Syntech brought wet bl...
29/05/2026

Wet blasting reaches New Zealand's biggest engineering stage...

This week, our New Zealand partner Syntech brought wet blasting to EMEX 2026 in Auckland, one of the southern hemisphere's most significant gatherings of manufacturing, engineering and technology professionals.

The Vapormate and Puma drew strong interest throughout the exhibition, giving engineers and manufacturers a hands-on look at the highly versatile manual wet blasting machines.

Learn more about our range of manual wet blasting machines: https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0vLq6r0

Finishing additive manufactured components with internal channels by dry blasting isn't finishing - it's guesswork...Whe...
28/05/2026

Finishing additive manufactured components with internal channels by dry blasting isn't finishing - it's guesswork...

When a DMLS or SLS component comes off the build plate, un-sintered and partially sintered powder is locked inside complex internal channels. Dry blasting forces air and abrasive through those channels without any mechanism to carry the dislodged powder out. In a complex internal geometry, you can compact loose powder further into the channel rather than remove it. The blockage remains, with no visible sign anything has gone wrong.

Wet blasting works differently. The slurry of water and abrasive media acts as a carrier fluid. It loosens the powder and transports it out with the flow. When slurry exits a cleared internal channel, it's visible. That is the only built-in confirmation mechanism available to the operator that the channel is genuinely clear, not just blasted.

Learn more about the benefits of finishing additive manufactured components by wet blasting: https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0vHzB50

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