Bead-blasting
Process Stainless Lab offers the highest possible quality glass bead-blasting at a separate facility to avoid possible cross-contamination with our electropolishing and precison cleaning operations.
About Glass Bead Blasting:
Glass beads are manufactured from lead-free, soda lime-type glass, containing no free silica that is made into preformed ball shapes. Glass beads produce a much smoother and brighter finish than angular abrasives. Glass beads can be recycled approximately 30 times. Chemically inert and environmentally friendly, glass beads are an acceptable method of metal cleaning or surface finishing when properly controlled.
Glass bead blasting produces a clean, bright, satin finish, without dimensional change of the parts. Available in a wide range of sizes, glass beads are primarily used in blasting cabinets for honing, polishing, peening, blending, finishing, removing light burrs and cleaning most light foreign matter. For delicate thin-walled parts and thin welds, peening with glass bead abrasive material provides the right balance of stress relief without over-stressing and causing damage. Consider the size of perforations or holes through which the glass beads must pass when screen separating parts from media after use.
Assembly and Packaging
We can provide rapid and cost-effective custom packaging, labeling and assembly services both inside and outside our class 1000 clean-room. We can also offer Ultra Low Outgass (ULO) poly and clean-room grade cloth or tissue for your packaging needs. Contact us to discuss your requirements and to get a quote.
Packaging is very often a critical part of our process. No matter how good the elctropolished surface may be on a critical or fragile part, a poorly packaged part that gets damaged or scratched will have to be reworked or scrapped, which is why PSL is dedicated to zero damaged parts in transit. With experience spanning over 16 years and hundreds of thousands of shipped parts, we can assure cost-effective protection for critical and non-critical parts.