Blasting Abrasives

With warehousing facilities conveniently located in Atlanta and Jacksonville and top-notch logistics, CSI can quickly and easily get the abrasives you need to your job site on time and on budget. Not sure what type of abrasive is best for your job? Call your qualified CSI representative to help you choose the best abrasive to make the most of each and every abrasive blasting job.

 

STARBLAST ®  
Grains of Dupont Starblast® (www.titanium.dupont.com) abrasive are rounded, subangular and dense, not jagged like sand or slag. Dupont Starblast® knocks scale off instead of cutting it. Speed, low dust, and recyclability make Dupont Starblast® a good choice to remove rust, mill scale and weathered coatings.
Sizes Available:
Biasill®
Starblast®
Starblast® XL
Starblast® Ultra
GARNET 
Barton’s (www.barton.com) GMA Garnet abrasives deliver high performance and recyclability in a non-ferrous 100% natural mineral. Barton garnet's superior hardness (7.5 mohs) and high bulk density (130-150 lbs/ft3) make it the abrasive of choice in many surface preparation applications.
Sizes Available:
16 grit 80 grit
36 grit 100 grit
30 x 40 grit Turbex
30 x 60 grit
STEEL SHOT 
National Metal Abrasive, Inc.(www.nationalmetalabrasive.com) Steel Shot has a uniform sphereical structure of finely tempered martensite steel to provide optimum resilience.  Its durability and resistance to impact fatigue provide masimum cleaning efficiency at the most economical cost.  It is particularly suited to shot peening applications.
Sizes Available:
S-70 S-390
S-110 S-460
S-170 S-550
S-230 S-660
S-280 S-780
S-330
STEEL GRIT 
Cast steel angular grit is produced by crushing specially heat treated shot pellets.  Its behavior characteristics in service are very much dependent upon the hardness selection of P, GB, GL, or GH grit.
Rockwell C Hardness ranges available:
GP-40/48 GL-55/62
GB-48/55 GH-62/68
Sizes A vailable:
G-12 G-32
G-14 G-40
G-16 G-50
G-18 G-80
G-25 G-120
ARMEX ®
Armex® (www.armex.com) Baking Soda abrasive is used to clean, depaint, and degrease metals, aluminum, other alloys, plastics, and composites.  Delivered using compressed air or water in specially manufactured equipment.
Varities available:
Maintenance Formula
Maintenance Formula w/S  upraKleen™
Maintenance Formula XL
Maintenance Formula XL w/SupraKleen™
Hydro Flex Formula
Flow Formula XL
GLASS BEADS
Potter's glass beads are chemically inert and manufactured to uniform size and hardness.  An environmentally friendly abrasive, they are perfect for manufacturing processes that require blast cleaning with no free silica or toxins.  Potter's glass bead media delivers precise control for peening, cleaning, finishing, and deburring.

Meets Mil G9954A specifications

Sizes Available:
#3 (23-30-US Sieve) #9 (80-120 US Sieve)
#4 (30-40 US Sieve) #10 (100-170 US Sieve)
#5 (40-50 US Sieve) #11 (120-200 US Sieve)
#6 (50-70 US Sieve) #12 (140-230 US Sieve)
#7 (60-80 US Sieve) #13 (170-325 US Sieve)
#8 (80-100 US Sieve)
GP ANGULAR SHOT 
The performance characteristics of GP Angular-shot are similar to steel shot but also have the aggressiveness of an angular material.  Due to the rapid rounding of GP Angular-shot there is no increase in abrasive consuption or machine wear.
Rockwell C Hardness ranges available:
GP-40/48
Sizes A vailable:
GP-12 GP-32
GP-14 GP-40
GP-16 GP-50
GP-18 GP-80
GP-25 GP-120
COAL SLAG 
Black Magnum (www.reedmin.com)  coal slag is for use in removing paint and rust from steel and concrete on bridges, ships, barges, tanks, etc., both indoors and outdoors.  It's available in four grades to meet any profiling needs.
Sizes Available:
1040 Utility Grade
1240 Medium Grade
2040 Fine Grade
3060 Ex-Fine Grade
ALUMINUM OXIDE
Exolon-ESK FASTBLAST™ (www.exolon.com) brown aluminum oxide grains feature multiple, sharp cutting edges, maximum resistance to breakdown, and no free crystalline silica, making them ideal for a variety of material removal processes.
Varities available:
Fastblast; 12 to 1200 grit
Meets ANSI B.74 Table II S pecifications
SILICON CARBIDE
Silicon Carbide abrasives from Exolon-ESK (www.exolon.com) are manufactured in a broad range of grains for refractory applications: the grinding and polishing of metals, alloys, ceramics, glass, marble, and stone.
Varities available:
12 to 240 grit
PLASTIC MEDIA
Plastic blasting media is a proven environmentally safe alternative to chemical strippers and other hard abrasives for a wide variety of commercial industrial applications, including paint stripping, coating removal, surface preparation, and conditioning.

Available in sizes 8/6 through 100/270

Varities available:
Type II Urea
Type III Melamine
Type V Acrylic
AGRICULTURAL MEDIA
CSI supplies organic blasting products like Hammons Walnut Shell and Corn Cob.   These products are all natural, making them and environmentally friendly abrasive for delicate blasting procedures.

Available in sizes 6/10 through 30/100

Varities available:
Black Walnut Shell
English Walnut Shell
Pecan Shell
Corn Cob