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GMA Garnet is the world's largest supplier of garnet abrasives used for blast cleaning, waterjet cutting, water filtration, and more! |
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GMA Garnet is the world's largest supplier of garnet, a natural
mineral found in deposits in Western Australia. Garnet is
a semi-precious stone whose natural properties make it the
most efficient abrasive for many industrial applications.
Garnet is an alternative to traditional abrasives such as
silica sand and slag because its characteristics surpass
their capacity for fast, efficient, high
quality, low-dusting blast cleaning, waterjet cutting,
for water filtration, and more.
At left, bags of garnet grain being loaded onto a ship, ready for shipment to one of many worldwide destinations. |
Garnet's natural characteristics provide its users with the following benefits:
LOW DUSTING
Blast cleaning with GMA Garnet means significantly lower dust emissions because of the inherent toughness of the material and rapid settling due to its high specific gravity. This ensures minimum disruption and danger to adjoining operations and improved operator visibility and safety.
HIGH PRODUCTIVITY
GMA Garent cleans quickly due to the large number, speed, and shape of the grains impacting the surface. The acceleration and speed of the grain in the air stream is a function of the inertia and hence, the size and mass of the grain. Smaller grains are more easily accelerated and thus impart higher impact energy to the surface and assure a higher cleaning rate - often twice the number of square meters or square feet compared with cleaning done with traditional materials!
LOW CONSUMPTION
GMA Garnet's unique grain size ensures that there are many more active grains impacting on the surface, resulting in greatly reduced abrasive consumption --usually one third to one half that of traditional sands and slags.
SUPERIOR SURFACE QUALITY
GMA Garnet grains clean deep into cavities and pitted areas down to the bare metal, thoroughly removing all rust, soluble salts and other contaminations. The blasted surface is free of embedments and free of rogue peaks and troughs. White Metal (SA3) is effortlessly achieved. A surface profile of 50-75 microns (2-3 mils) is easily created.
IMPROVED HEALTH & SAFETY
GMA Garnet is non-toxic and contains less than 0.1% "free silica". There is no silicosis hazard, leachable heavy metals or radioactive contaminants. Lower consumption and recyclability result in greatly reduced disposal volumes of non-toxic product.
RECYCLING
GMA Garnet is suitable for multiple usage. It can be recycled 3-5 times or more without losing its superior cutting ability. Special GMA Garnet recycling systems are available on request.
It all adds up to natural, clean and cost effective performance.
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