Industrial Fabrication & Maintenance

GMA offers a range of high-performance garnet blast abrasives with high productivity, and produce the cleanest most consistent surface for maximum coating adhesion and corrosion protection.

Get a cleaner surface faster, with minimized OSH risks

Steel fabrication and maintenance requires unique abrasive properties to help clean, prepare and preserve the steel surface. Learn more about the benefits of the world's most advanced garnet abrasive.

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High productivity

Achieve your specified surface profile faster than alternate abrasives.

Low consumption

Complete the job with far less abrasive, reducing costs in abrasive purchase, transport, and disposal.

High peak density

Generate higher peak density over alternate abrasives for unmatched coating adhesion and integrity.

Low embedment

60% of the average slag-blasted surface is embedded with residual abrasive. Garnet results in minimal embedment.

Low dust

GMA Garnet™ offers the closest thing to dustless blasting, drastically improving operator visibility and reducing site contamination.

Low safety risk

Garnet is an inert mineral with little to no heavy metals creating worker risks or environmental hazards.

Fabrication

GMA Garnet™ is ideally suited to structural steel fabrication yards where new construction and maintenance projects require hard mill scale removal. GMA NewSteel™ is the fastest cleaning mineral abrasive on the market for removing mill scale.

Exceptional surface cleanliness with minimal abrasive embedment, for better corrosion resistance and substrate integrity
High blasting and cleaning efficiency, leading to low abrasive consumption, minimizing usage and maximizing recycling.
Very low dust emissions, reducing risk to surrounding sensitive equipment
With the right equipment GMA Garnet™ can provide a high level of reusability through recycling onsite
GMA Garnet™ is an inert, sustainable natural mineral, with little to no recordable heavy metals and worker hazard risks

Powder Coating

GMA’s finer grade garnet abrasives such as GMA NewSteel™ and GMA PrecisionBlast™ are uniquely positioned for the powder coating industry, able to produce the ideal exceptionally clean surface, with uniform profile and peak density, allowing for maximum coating adhesion and integrity.

Exceptional surface cleanliness with minimal abrasive embedment allows for better corrosion resistance and substrate integrity
Creates the required surface profile with consistent peak density for stronger coating adhesion
High blasting and cleaning efficiency, leading to low abrasive consumption
Very low dust emissions, reducing risk to workers and contamination to surrounding areas

Precast Concrete

Perfect concrete finishing starts with GMA Garnet™. The unique blasting technique used on concrete to produce the desired texture and to expose the aggregate beneath for an architectural decorative finish is achieved via a cost effective blend of GMA Garnet™ and pyroxene.

Very low dust emissions, allowing for productive efficiency in projects and reducing emissions in the surrounding environment
High blasting efficiency, leading to lower abrasive consumption reducing blasting time and abrasive disposal
Waste management and garnet recycling: With the right equipment GMA can provide a high level of reusability through recycling onsite
GMA Garnet™ is an inert, sustainable natural mineral with little to no recordable heavy metals or worker risks & hazards.

Safely create clean, consistent surfaces

Find out how GMA can produce the range of surface profiles that your protective coatings require — safely, efficiently, and without disrupting your facility.

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