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Turnaround Season Is Coming: Is Your Industrial Service Company Ready With the Next Solution?
Across refineries, chemical plants, power generation facilities, manufacturing plants, and other process industries, the approach of fall means something very familiar to industrial service companies: Turnaround season is coming. For the contractors supporting these facilities, that can mean weeks or months of increased activity. Equipment comes offline. Inspection crews move in. Coatings are removed. Corrosion is addressed. Welds and surfaces have to be prepared. Components

Tyrel Denver
Aug 253 min read


A-LUX Laser Eliminates Another Sandblasting Booth
Sometimes the difference between traditional surface preparation and laser cleaning can be summed up in one sound: shovels moving piles of blasting media. That’s exactly where this short video begins. We recently delivered and commissioned an A-LUX 3000W-CW industrial laser cleaning system at a fabrication shop where abrasive blasting had been part of the surface-cleaning process. Before the new system was even unloaded, the crew was still shoveling spent blasting media from

Tyrel Denver
Aug 201 min read


Dry Ice Blasting vs. Laser Ablation: Pros, Cons, Costs, and the Best Applications for Each
Dry ice blasting has become a familiar method for industrial cleaning, production-line maintenance, contamination removal, and equipment restoration. When a facility needs to remove grease, oil, residue, coatings, or accumulated production material, dry ice blasting is often one of the first technologies considered. Laser ablation—commonly called laser cleaning—is another dry surface-treatment process capable of addressing many of the same applications. However, dry ice blast

Tyrel Denver
Jul 1724 min read


Laser Cleaning Therapy: Satisfying Laser Ablation by Argento Lux
We hear it all the time on our videos: “I could watch this stuff all day.” And honestly, we get it. There is something uniquely satisfying about watching a laser beam strip away rust, coatings, residue, grime, and surface contamination. Whether it is wood, metal, stone, or another substrate, the process has a way of pulling you in. One second the surface is dirty, coated, or oxidized — and the next second, the laser reveals what is hiding underneath. So we decided to put toge

Tyrel Denver
Jul 92 min read
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