Shot blasting

FICEP has a long experience in supplying complete manufacturing systems that includes complementary processes to drilling, sawing, coping, punching and shearing. Since more than twenty years the FICEP organisation have been supplying, together with the well known FICEP equipment, wheelblasting roller conveyor machines and painting systems.

The use of shotblasting equipment is very common in Europe and is getting more and more introduced in line with the comprehensive FICEP equipment all over the world.

The need to satisfy more and more strict finished painting quality acceptance methods from the main contractors and clients pushed the fabricators to introduce shotblasting as a must requirement previous to painting.

Whether is just a need of priming or top coating, shotblasting before painting has proven to be the best process to obtain outstanding painting quality.

The H-I-U etc. rolled steel sections are the supporting frame of all the modern civil and industrial building construction. Together with gusset plates, fin plates, end plates etc., they become the assemblies that constitutes the bones of the latest infrastructures.

It goes without saying that good shotblasting and painting techniques make maintenance of building less frequent and give a better look and aesthetic. It is for this reason that after a collaboration of more than ten years FICEP and Wheelabrator have signed a technology partnership to bring to the market the most performant solutions both in shotblasting and painting.

Wheelabrator has a tremendous long experience in shotblasting equipment and solutions for the most difficult and demanding industries such as the automobile industry, the steel mills industry, shipyards, the aircrafts industry and of course the steel construction industry with its roller conveyor wheelblasting solutions.

FICEP has a deep world wide market penetration and a long and comprehensive experience in automatic systems for the structural steel industry.

After the first successes supplying joint solutions many years ago in the most re known fabricators shop in United kingdom, Spain, Australia, Russia, Austria, Germany, France, USA, South America, China, etc. , FICEP and Wheelabrator put together all their experiences to produce exclusive solutions for the structural steel market both in shotblasting as in painting, priming or top coating.

The patented ETA wheel turbine of Wheelabrator is just one of the characteristic of the FICEP shotblasting solutions. This wheel has unprecedented speed and energy saving characteristics. The strength of manganese steel is well used and comprehensively applied all around the chambers in order to give ever lasting properties to these machines.

FICEP and Wheelabrator put together the widest range of solutions for the structural steel market. Solutions for plates , solutions for beams, solutions for shotblasting before assembly or after assembly, solutions with four wheels or six or eight turbines, traditional solutions with straight wheels or the super performant inclined wheel.

Ask us for more details or start to have a look to these product web pages and we will be pleased to provide you all the technical details to better understand why the FICEP shotblasting are the bench mark today in structural steel surface preparation.