NLB Corporation applications

Problem: Build-up on grates, skids, hooks, and carriers reduces paint shop efficiency and often leads to a below-quality finish. Chemical stripping and incineration are effective, but are hard on operating personnel and expose them to hazards.

Problem: Manual cleaning of tanks and totes used to ship and store plastics and chemicals can take many hours. It also requires people to work in confined spaces, which is discouraged by today’s safety regulations.

Problem: As liquid product hardens, it builds up in a tube or pipe and restricts flow and efficiency. Removing it with drills or brushes can be hard, slow work, resulting in too much downtime.

Problem: Removing rust, scale and coatings with grit blasting requires containment and/or clean-up, and those costs can have a significant impact on profitability. For contractors doing environmental remediation – removing asbestos or lead paint, for example – the containment issue is even more critical.

Problem: Highway and runway markings must be removed and repainted regularly, and runways face the additional problem of rubber build-up every time an airplane lands. Grinding it away can damage the pavement, and sandblasting generates a lot of dust.

Problem: You’ve got concrete where you don’t want it, or you’ve got a coating on concrete that’s failed and you need to get it off.

Problem: The impact of concrete breakers and jackhammers is not limited to deteriorated concrete. It can damage rebar and produce vibration that generates microfractures in sound concrete. Not to mention the noise and the dust.

Problem: A burr left on a metal part – or flash on a molded one – not only sends a message of poor quality, it can cause serious problems down the road.  If it breaks off later inside a fuel injector or other critical part, it can cause clogs or damage that can affect performance.

Problem: Blades wear as they cut, and the duller they get, the less precise their cuts. Manual cutting exposes workers to safety and ergonomic hazards.

Problem: Ceramic shells are typically chipped away from investment castings, a process that is not only tedious and labor-intensive, but can damage the casting inside. The more intricate the casting shape, the bigger the problem.