Sandblasting Equipment Supplier
Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, N.T. Ruddock is the best source for all kinds of abrasives, OSHA safety equipment, sandblasting pots, and all the other equipment you’ll need to do powder coatings, metal finishing, and surface preparation. If you need to prepare steel or concrete surfaces, you’ll find the exact type of aluminum oxide abrasive, waterjet garnet, or glass bead abrasive to do the job at N.T. Ruddock.
Any company in need of a customized Blast Room can have it prepared by N.T. Ruddock, or you can purchase a customized sandblasting unit, featuring wet blast vapor abrasives. These high-quality Blast Rooms can be configured with everything you need for your own efficient operation, e.g. filters, blast lights, dust collection systems, and whatever other accessories you need to do the job. In addition to selling the finest sandblasting equipment, N.T. Ruddock also services this equipment, and has stock on hand for replacing couplers, sandblast hoses, sand blast cabinet parts, blast nozzles, and all the other accessories you might need.
N.T. Ruddock makes a point of working with only the best suppliers in the sandblasting industry, because we realize our reputation is at stake when you buy from us. We can’t afford to sell you sub-standard parts or sandblasting equipment, because that would reflect poorly on our company, and that’s something we just don’t want to happen. With that in mind, here are some brief company sketches of the businesses which we collaborate with, to provide you with the best possible equipment and accessories for all your sandblasting projects.
Clemco Industries
Clemco Industries specializes in selling products such as blast machines which are reliable and extremely durable. These can be used for prepping surfaces, removing existing coatings, and a number of other uses. To carry out safe blasting, they also offer all kinds of personal protective equipment (PPE) like supplied-air respirators (SARs) and carbon monoxide alarms and monitors. For conducting enclosed blasting, they sell blast cabinets which protect everyone in the blasting area from the hazards of inhalation and from abrasive rebound.
Schmidt Abrasive Blasting Equipment
Schmidt has evolved into Axxiom Manufacturing, Inc. but still carries on the original mission of designing and manufacturing high-quality engineered systems and specialized equipment. A small sampling of their product lines includes air blast equipment and all their component parts, vacuum systems, air dryers, moisture separators, after coolers, and a number of other storage and transfer systems. They also provide training on all the equipment they sell, as well as replacement components of the highest quality.
Western Technology
Founded in 1978, Western Technology has had more than 40 years in business to perfect their design and manufacturing processes for world-class, portable LED work lights. Their first triumph in 1978 was constructing a light and deadman control for the severe environments created by abrasive blasting. Since then, they have addressed all kinds of problems related to lighting important and sometimes difficult to reach, temporary work spaces. All their lighting products are designed with easy positioning and simple maintenance in mind, as well as the safety of all those making use of the products.
Empire Abrasive Equipment
Empire is known for its production of the most extensive line of air-blasting equipment anywhere in the world. Some of their most popular product lines include manual blast cabinets, portable blasters, pre-engineered blast booth systems, field-erected custom blast rooms, robotic blast systems, and fully automated air blast systems. They also provide turnkey installation, training, technical support, and replacement components for all the products and systems which they sell.
Kennametal
Kennametal has a diverse product line used in a wide variety of industries, and the common denominator across all those products is high quality and reliability. Some of the products they specialize in are abrasive waterjet nozzles, tungsten and carbide wear components, powdered materials and equipment, engineered components, road milling drums, products for underground and surface mining, and a whole catalog of metal-working tools. The company has been named a Best Practices Partner four times in its history, by the APQC which is the world’s leading authority on benchmarking, best practices, knowledge management, and process and performance improvement.
Blast-It-All
Blast-It-All specializes in the design, manufacture, and selling of all kinds of abrasive blast equipment, as you might guess from the company name. They offer a variety of machine choices to customers, so as to accommodate the different needs of industry with regard to blast cabinets and pneumatic recovery blast rooms. They also sell a number of related products such as soda blasting systems, dust collectors, benches, vibratory equipment, and various parts and accessories.
Bullard
Specializing in the sale of personal protective equipment, Bullard has been in business since 1898 offering hard hats, thermal imagers, firefighter and rescue helmets, supplied-air respirators, powered air-purifying respirators, and various types of air quality equipment. The original company supplied PPE to gold and copper miners in California, Nevada, and Arizona, and also collaborated with the builders of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco to keep workers safe. In the 120+ years since then, Bullard has been improving and refining its safety wear product lines to meet the changing needs of industry and workers.
