Preface

Today we have no choice but to accept that surfaces preparing and finishing operations, better known under the name of "sandblasting", "shotblasting" or "glassblasting" are more and more spread in all tha industrial areas. Their applications are multiplied constantly and form part of new activities continually.
However, these techniques are very often little or bad known by the future users and can lead, because of a bad choice, to regrettable technical or economical consequences.
Facing such a development, it became important to initiate the beginners and to improve the well-informed, putting at their disposal the knowledge and the competences of the professionals experts in the subject.
This site does not pretend to become the "Bible" of the "impacts surfaces treatments" but more an essential companion that will limit the error risk and will allow to save time and make money. It might appear as being incomplete for some specialists but for the moment, its unique vocation is to answer the basic questions or to fill the gaps of some non-specialists. As modest as it is, it can become the documentation or a guide a lot of people were waiting for. It asks nothing better than being enriched with the knowledge that everyone has and will want to send us.

The author : Robert CARRERE, director of the site publication.

Site content

Surfanet is the site that was lacking until now in the impacts surfaces treatments area. It is the only one today to inform and form free of charge any person, professional or not, on its techniques, its applications, its products and its specific equipments.
There are 6 technical indexes with more than 50 texts pages completed by more than 20 boards and supplemented with more than 100 diagrams or pictures.
Moreover, it proposes an active data base with more than 600 informations and where you can find more than 400 manufacturers, 120 suppliers, 50 documents and more than 30 organisms.
In order to take advantage of the extent of informations contained, we invit you to click on all the "orange" text indications to display the complementary boards, diagrams or pictures. These new pages hidden will appear under the form of "pop-up" windows that you can conjure away at will.
Do not hesitate to browse the site, you will be surprised by the fullness of its content.

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(Site filed and recorded February 20, 2003 under No. 030220-1539).