Six years after a clampdown against the alleged landfilling of grit blasting material under a 5,000sq.m concrete platform at the Palumbo shipyard, the Environment and Planning Review Tribunal has yet ...

Grit-blasting at the Palumbo shipyards, that is polluting the Cottonera area, is set to continue despite residents’ concerns over health risks associated with the airborne by-product of the ...

Palumbo Shipyards and Malta Environment and Planning Authority officials will be meeting tomorrow in a bid to come up with solutions to address the grit-blasting problem that has been plaguing the ...

A specially designed valve developed by Hodge Clemco greatly increases the safety of grit blasting operations by reducing the time taken for equipment to depressurise when it is shut off. On standard ...

In a statement in the afternoon Mepa said its officials had started unearthing quantities of possible hazardous waste which had been illegally buried under layers of concrete in two sites in the ...

I find it necessary to comment on James Tyrrell's letter 'Risk of grit blasting the cathedral roof' (The Sunday Times, January 4). I have to inform Mr Tyrrell that having overseen the maintenance and ...

Recent police statistics for Bormla are startling – in 2011, the police received 27 reports related to damage to private property there, and 35 reports in 2012, but in 2013 the number rose sharply to ...

LA based C&C Marine and Repair has announced the opening of their new indoor, climate controlled, Paint and Blast Facility. The 83,350 square foot facility can accommodate barges up to 320’x75’x20’ ...

Australia is using two grit-blasting robots to clean the Sydney Harbour Bridge before it is repainted. The robots shoot out compressed air to cut through rust and old paint on the famous Australian ...