Since 2010 export sales have become an increasingly important contributor to Metal Finish Equipment & Supply Company’s overall sales of MetFin Shotblast Systems blast cleaning and peening systems. Last year alone, export sales accounted for nearly 50% of total revenue. And we are not just selling to small manufacturers, but to large corporations: Alstom Power, …
News and Notes
Preventing Exfoliation in Stainless Steel Tubes
Preventing Exfoliation in Stainless Steel Tubes: The MetFin Model MTP 9003, designed and built for success. The utility industry’s pursuit of higher efficiency has increased the use of stainless steel superheaters. A pattern of early boiler tube failures (BTF) associated with stainless steel superheaters in both subcritical and supercritical zones has been associated with the …
MetFin’s sales go beyond national borders.
With more and more MetFin shotblast machines being shipped internationally, the Hartford Business Journal was interested in how passing of the Free Trade Agreement with the European Union would affect our business. See the attached HBJ article to see how the agreement could boost exports to the EU for American businesses like MetFin: Read the …
Great Tax Savings in 2012 for Businesses
Don’t miss your opportunity to cash in on the Section 179 Deduction. Section 179 of the IRS tax code allows businesses to deduct up to the full purchase price of qualifying equipment and/or software purchased or financed during the 2012 tax year. That means that if you buy or lease a piece of qualifying equipment, …
Shot Peening: An Introduction
Shotpeening is a cold working process used to improve the characteristics of metal parts. The basic premise is that small, round media are directed at a part to create dimples on the surface which puts the outer layer of the metal into compression and effectively prevents fatigue failure and stress corrosion cracking. Correctly creating these …
Proper Abrasive Levels in Blast Machines
Maintaining proper abrasive levels in your blast equipment is crucial to keeping operating costs low and productivity high. Often times, blast equipment operators believe they can save money by not keeping the blast machine hoppers full of abrasive. What drives this thinking? A false impression of cost savings is created when, by not continually introducing …
How Much Does it Cost to Operate a Shot Blast Machine?
This literally is, in many cases, the illusive $64,000 question! But in reality, it’s not all that difficult to generally estimate the operating costs of a typical machine. You just have to know how, and MetFin wants to be your source for this kind of important knowledge. The overarching principle of this exercise is to …
Shotblast Batch Barrels: How Full is Full?
This question is one of the most frequently asked by operators of batch type cleaning machines, most commonly called a “tumble blast” or “barrel blast” machine, of which there are probably more in operation than any other style of blast cleaning machine in the market. Tumble blast machines employ either an endless rubber belt or …
Abrasive Media Options
If your operation is using a centrifugal blast machine for surface cleaning or shot peening, you owe it to yourself to consider using cut wire shot for surface prep applications. Based on the finish required from your shot blast operation, you can choose several different types of abrasive media to achieve your desired result. The …
Maximizing Your CNC Plasma Cutting Investment
CNC plasma cutters can be more accurate and less expensive to operate when blast cleaning is integrated into the pre-cutting process.