Applications and references
For over 45 years, ARENA BLAST has been designing and manufacturing blasting, micro-blasting and shot-peening installations, as well as dust-collection booths, for a very wide range of trades.
Our installed base today covers several thousand machines, delivered to more than 2,600 distinct customers, in nearly 2,000 cities — from metropolitan France to Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Portugal, Tunisia, Sweden and the United Kingdom, not forgetting Reunion Island, New Caledonia and the French West Indies.
Blasting is a surface-treatment operation that involves projecting an abrasive (grain, micro-bead, shot) at a controlled speed. It can strip, clean, deburr, prepare, texture or finish metal, plastic, composite, glass or wooden parts. The same technology, adapted into vacuum machines, manual booths, automatic machines or micro-blasting stations, meets very different needs depending on the sector.
This page presents, sector by sector, the concrete applications of blasting and the ARENA customers who implement them — drawn from our actual serial-number records.
Industrial Maintenance
- Maintenance of equipment, machinery or soiled or encrusted pipelines
- Cleaning to restore industrial surfaces
- Rehabilitation of installations (tanks, structures, frames, etc.)
- Surface preparation prior to repainting or coating
Aeronautics, Space & Defense
- Stripping of fuselage components by projection of plastic media
- Cleaning of engine parts and structural elements
- Deburring without altering mechanical tolerances (micro-peening or plastic-media blasting)
Precision Mechanics
Deburring of machined parts
Finishing by micro-blasting (satin finishing)
Engraving on copper
Shot peening for pre-stressing
Additive manufacturing / 3D Printing
- Depowdering of parts manufactured by laser sintering (SLS / MJF)
- Powder extraction for metal 3D printing
- Finishing and surface treatment of additive‑manufactured parts
- Microblasting and air‑blowing finishing of parts inside a closed, ventilated enclosure
Metallurgy
- Preparation before painting, metallizing or galvanizing
- Metal stripping, rust removal and descaling
- Metal finishing
- Cleaning of used or welded parts (descaling, oxidation removal)
- Batch blasting of screws and small parts in a rotating basket
- Removal of burrs and moulding residues
Medical & implants
Surface treatment on implants
Shot‑peening finishing of surgical equipment
Deburring and cleaning of dental implants
Cleaning of stainless steel and technical areas in controlled environments (soft blasting, micro‑shot‑peening)
Petrochemicals & chemicals
- Stripping and rehabilitation of pipelines, tanks and storage vessels
- Maintenance of metal structures and frameworks in corrosive environments
- Surface preparation before anticorrosion coating and high‑performance painting
- Cleaning of tanks, ballast compartments and process equipment
- Removal of deposits, scale and chemical residues
Nuclear
- Surface preparation before treatment
- Creation of surface roughness prior to applying specific protective coatings and high‑performance paints
Plastic injection & rubber
- Surface treatment on molds
- Deburring of plastic parts
- Cleaning of molds and tooling
- Cleaning of desiccant filters
Naval & maritime
- Cleaning of hulls and metal structures
- Corrosion control (blasting + anti‑rust treatment)
- Preparation of tanks, ballast compartments and structures before coating
Automotive, rail & transportation
Stripping and preparation of cast parts
Deburring of mechanical components
Refurbishment of rolling stock (locomotives, wagons, buses, metro trains)
Preparation of chassis and structures before painting
Reconditioning of alternators, starters, etc.
Reconditioning of gearbox housings, turbochargers, braking components, and blasting of bodywork elements
Stripping of aluminum wheels
Anti‑theft marking on windows by sandblasting
Construction, civil engineering & mining
- Restoration of façades and historical buildings
- Stripping of steel profiles and finishing on stainless steel
- Removal of old paints, graffiti and coatings
- Cleaning of filters on construction machinery
- Façade refurbishment
- Stripping / renovation of wooden beams
- Dust removal and depowdering of filters
Recycling industry & household appliances
Blowing of cartridges and paint removal prior to recycling
Blowing of dusty equipment before maintenance
Dust removal and depowdering of servers and equipment prior to refurbishment
Glass manufacturing
- Glazing and frosting
- Glass engraving
- Stencil marking
- Dust removal on glass parts (ionized air blowing)
- Mold cleaning
Universities, schools & research centers
Educational and research institutions use our machines for training and materials testing.
Study on shot‑peening for residual stress induction
Tooling maintenance
Agri‑food industry
- Cleaning of tools contaminated with powders (coffee, animal feed, etc.)
- Dust removal on process equipment
- Maintenance of production‑line tooling
- Cleaning of parts and molds
Jewelry industry
Surface treatment on precious metals after casting
Micro‑sandblasting
Electrical / electronics
Reconditioning of motors / gearbox housings
Stripping of components or printed circuit boards by micro‑sandblasting
Dust removal on electronic boards
Woodworking & furniture
Furniture restoration
Artistic creations and patterns on wood
Cleaning of antique pieces
Stripping of furniture by air‑gumming (gentle blasting that preserves the wood)
