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Vapormatt

Name: Vapormatt
Address: Bridgwater, TA64DL, GB
Telephone: +44 (0)1823 257976
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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.

03/11/2026

For jet engine manufacturers, the surface you send to non-destructive testing (NDT) decides how far you can trust the result.

Machining oil or heat-treatment scale left in a fir tree slot can stop penetrant reaching a defect during fluorescent penetrant inspection (FPI), or cause background fluorescence and false calls. Dry blasting can peen or smear metal over the defects you need to find.

Wet blasting, also known as v***r blasting, uses a slurry of blast media and water that flows over the surface rather than hammering it. It reaches fir tree slots, blade roots and cooling holes, flushing contamination clear without a separate degreasing stage, dust or harmful chemicals.

On a production line, consistency matters as much as cleanliness. Our machines monitor and record blast pressure, slurry concentration and travel speed on every cycle, so the first part and the thousandth receive identical preparation, with data to support Nadcap and your process approvals.

The results hold up in production. At one engine OEM, an automatic Vapormatt Leopard Cub cut stage one compressor hub preparation from up to 3 hours of manual blasting to 20 minutes per hub.

Send us your component, material and specification. We’ll process samples at our UK test facility and return documented results before you commit.

Learn more about jet engine component prep for NDT: https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0zBlGj0

30/10/2026

Your finishing process is the last step between a machined part and a reliable fi***rm. Is it holding you back?

Dry blasting embeds abrasive that undermines Cerakote adhesion. Tumbling can’t reach the recesses of a slide or bolt carrier. Hand deburring changes with every shift.

Wet blasting (also known as v***r blasting) deburrs, laps and cleans in a single pass. Water cushions the media, so there’s no embedded abrasive and no change to critical dimensions, just a clean, repeatable surface finish ready for Cerakote, Parkerizing or nitride. It’s a closed-loop and dust-free process with no silica risk, so it can sit right beside your assembly line.

That’s where the Vapormatt Puma+ automatic wet blasting machine comes in with three fi***rms-ready configurations:

- Radial configuration: four guns sweep a Ø700mm turntable for slides, frames and receivers
- Vertical configuration: Z-axis guns for taller parts such as barrels
- Barrel configuration: up to 20kg of small parts per load (50kg with the large barrel option), wet blasted and rinsed automatically
- Recipes selected on the HMI for repeatable, automated cycles
- Stainless steel build with all filtration inside a compact footprint

Heading to the SHOT Show in Las Vegas? Visit us at booth 51020 to discuss your finishing requirements.

Learn more about the applications and benefits of wet blasting for fi***rms: https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0zwr5w0

Leasrn more about the Puma+: https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0zwr5x0

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28/10/2026

One blocked waste line can ground an aircraft.

AOG costs can run into thousands per hour. The cleaning that prevents it costs a fraction of that.

Toilet pans, waste tanks, pump housings and valve bodies build up scale, urine salts and biological films. Chemical soaking removes deposits but doesn’t remove the rough, pitted surface beneath, so components re-soil within months. Manual scrubbing struggles with complex geometries and exposes technicians to biohazardous material.

Wet blasting cleans, descales and refines the surface in one enclosed operation. The smoother finish gives deposits less to grip, so components stay cleaner for longer between overhaul visits. Contamination is captured in the water stream and filtered out as a solid for safe, documented disposal.

Why the Vapormatt Puma suits this work

The stainless steel cabinet keeps operators fully shielded as they work through fitted gloves. A 1100 x 1100 x 1200mm working area and wide side door make bulky components easy to load. Adjustable blast pressure, combined with the right media, protects thermoplastic liners. Specified with a moving bed filter, the Puma separates contaminated waste from the water so it can be collected and disposed of safely.

Talk to our team about improving the speed, quality and safety of your aircraft toilet MRO operation: https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0zrNbk0

Learn more about aircraft toilet maintenance: https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0zrNbj0

27/10/2026

Think about the last aircraft wheel that came into your shop.

- How long did it really take to strip?
- How much dust was in the air?
- And how sure were you that it came out clean?

For most wheel and brake shops, paint stripping is a necessary evil. Degrease. Chemical bath. Dry. Blast. Clean off the dust. At every handoff the wheel sits, the clock runs and margin leaks away.

Dry plastic media blasting is often the first choice because it’s familiar. But familiar isn’t the same as best.

- It’s clean, until the dust settles.
- It’s fast, until the media breaks and the filters block.
- It can be safe, until the next environmental audit.

That dust is more than a nuisance. It carries carcinogens from the paint, microplastics from the blasting media and metallic residues from the wheel. Your operators breathe it in with every wheel, every shift, every year.

A large European MRO came to us stripping A350 inner wheel halves with a chemical bath followed by dry blasting. Their main goal wasn’t speed. They wanted to cut out chemical disposal costs, reduce compressed air demand and remove the dust.

We ran a controlled test on our Puma XL WASP wet blasting system. We followed Safran SPM 32-09-01, Section 70, in full, on OEM paint with no chemical pre-treatment.

The result:
→ 58 minutes, against their current 120
→ 52% less time per wheel
→ No chemical pre-treatment, no dust
→ Anodised layer intact, confirmed by continuity reading

At 30 wheels a week, that’s more than 30 hours of capacity back. Every week.
And speed was only meant to be the bonus.

We believe the wheel and brake shops that are most competitive in five years will be the ones that make process decisions in the next two.

So here’s our offer: send us one of your aircraft wheels. We’ll run it through the machine at our UK test facility and send you the data.

No obligation. Just evidence.

Learn more about the advantages of wet blasting for wheel and brake shops: https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0zqk6C0

22/10/2026

A surgical or dental instrument is only as safe as its surface.

A burr on a scissor jaw. A finish too rough to sterilise reliably. A batch that varies from the last. Each one is a compliance risk, and each one traces back to how the instrument was finished.

Wet blasting deburrs, cleans and finishes instruments in one automated step. With glass bead, it delivers 0.25 to 0.6µm Ra, well below the 0.8µm Ra hygienic-design benchmark, with no embedded abrasive.

For instrument manufacturers moving on from manual finishing, the Vapormatt Puma+ is the natural next step. Recipe-driven cycles, selected at the HMI, mean every batch runs the same way. Adjustable blast pressure protects fine jaws, hinge pins and thin sections. Radial, Vertical and Barrel configurations cover everything from scalpel handles to small dental components, all in a stainless steel cabinet with a medium footprint that suits busy production areas.

Before your machine leaves us, we test it, often on your own instruments. A dedicated project leader stays with you from order to installation.

We brought wet blasting to the world. Decades on, it’s still our sole focus, so you get a process built to support ISO 13485 and the FDA’s Quality Management System Regulation validation.

Tell us the instrument, material and target Ra, and one of our applications engineers will recommend the right process and machine.

Learn more about wet blasting for medical and dental instruments: https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0zhVCY0

15/10/2026

The surface of a dental implant plays a major part in how well it heals.

In the first weeks after placement, a surface that wets quickly with blood attracts proteins and cells sooner. Wet blasting has been shown to produce dental implant surfaces that are more hydrophilic than conventional SLA (sandblasted, large-grit, acid-etched) finishes, supporting earlier cell attachment.

It’s also clean. Water cushions each particle on impact, greatly reducing the risk of abrasive embedding in the titanium. Use biocompatible calcium-phosphate media and there’s no foreign residue to justify in a biocompatibility dossier. Set pressure, media and dwell time to hit the Ra your implant design specifies, batch after batch.

The Vapormatt Puma + brings that control into a medium-footprint, automated cell:

- Barrel configuration for small components, with bespoke holding fixtures available on the Radial and Vertical models
- Saved recipes set rotation speed, direction and cycle time from the HMI (human machine interface)
- Manually adjustable blast pressure protects delicate threads
- 304 stainless steel cabinet, with automatic rinsing on the Barrel model

Every Puma + goes through factory acceptance testing on the implants you’ll be processing, so it performs to the specification we agree with you. That’s the Vapormatt Promise.

Learn more: https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0z60YS0

14/10/2026

Spring fatigue starts at the surface. Wet blasting gives you control of it.

For springs built for high loads, high cycle counts or harsh environments, wet blasting delivers:

- Longer fatigue life. Wet shot peening builds compressive residual stress where cracks begin.

- A clean surface. Water flushes debris and scale away, so springs leave the machine ready for inspection or coating.

Springs that benefit from the process include those found in the aerospace, defence, industrial, and medical industry. Ranging from fuel control springs to those found on surgical instruments.

The Puma+ Vertical with satellites automatic wet blasting machine is well suited to the task.

Up to 42 springs mount on individual satellites around the turntable. The machine indexes to each one, rotates it on its own axis and traverses two blast nozzles along its full length, so every spring in the batch receives the same all-round coverage.

Stored recipes set the traverse speed and blast length for each spring type, so changeover is a simple recipe selection. Through Vapormatt 4.0, our engineers can diagnose the machine and update programmes remotely.

Send us sample springs and your specification. Our process engineers will wet blast them to your requirements and share the results, so you can see the improved fatigue performance for yourself.

Contact us: https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0z0DHN0

08/10/2026

We don't sell abrasives but we can tell you which one your process needs.

Run the same component through the same wet blasting machine, at the same pressure and cycle time, with two different media. You'll get two surfaces with fundamentally different functional properties. Choose the wrong one and the cost appears later in rework, failed qualification tests and scrapped parts.

We brought wet blasting to the world, and our process engineers have developed and validated media specifications since 1978. We've now put that knowledge into one practical guide that includes topics like:

- How size, shape and hardness drive every media decision, and why toughness sets your running cost
- When aluminium oxide is right for a defined surface profile, from below 0.4 µm Ra up to 3.0 µm Ra
- Why glass beads, ceramic beads and stainless steel shot all peen, but not with equal intensity
- Which plastic media grades perform in a wet slurry, and which one doesn't Whether your dry blasting media will work in a wet blasting machine

With no media to sell, our advice has one aim: the right finish on your components.

Read the abrasive blast media guide: https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0yXB8_0

07/10/2026

Where does wet blasting fit in fibre optic cable manufacturing?

Not on the glass, but on the metallic layers that protect it in submarine communications cable.

Before the polyethylene insulation is extruded, the metallic layer around the fibre core needs a clean surface for a strong bond. Wet blasting delivers that without solvents.

The Vapormatt Profelis does this in-line:

- Creates a clean, reactive surface for outer layer bonding
- Processes Ø1mm to Ø54mm product, with up to 8 Mk3 blast guns
- Wet blasts, rinses and air-wipes in one unit with a short line length, designed to fit into existing lines and configurable to run left-to-right or right-to-left
- Optional cable vacuum drying unit
- Degreaser can be added to the slurry or rinse
- Fully enclosed and ventilated, with recirculated rinse water to keep running costs down
- Often tested with your actual product during factory acceptance testing, before it ships

Making submarine communications cable? Let's talk about what an in-line wet blast finish could do for your line.

Contact us: https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0yVMG60

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TA64DL

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Monday	9am - 5pm
Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 5pm

Telephone

+44 (0)1823 257976

Website

http://www.vapormatt.com/index.html

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