Our FastBlast recycled glass abrasive is the new standard for many applications that previously involved many slag abrasives. There are a few reasons for the recent popularity of recycled glass abrasives over slags. It has been well published that coal slag contains beryllium and other heavy metals. With awareness being brought to the public, many companies are making the switch to recycled glass.

Embedment is also a major concern when using slag products. We have personal experience with coal slag being used on the blasting equipment we manufacture. During the process of welding our vessels, they go down a robotic assembly line.  Prior to shipping us the vessels, the plant was blasting our vessels with coal slag and then priming them. After receiving the vessels, they are sent out to be powder coated. The embedment of the coal slag on the vessels, was creating a horrible finish in the powder coating. It looked like weld spatter and was ruining the final product. We initially re-blasted the surface with glass to remove all of the coal slag particles, finally requested our vessels leave the plant with no blasting at all. It was much easier to deal with the surface rust, rather then the coal slag embedment.

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