Insights & Guides
Surface Preparation ‘Bible’
MontiPower®, in cooperation with Brendan Fitzsimons and the Corrodere Academy (UK), presents its surface preparation book, Surface Preparation & Coating Application. It...
Dry ice blasting
Dry ice blasting (CO2 blasting) cleans surfaces by propelling solid CO2 pellets, typically 3 mm or smaller, in a compressed-air stream. Thermal...
Powder Coating Aluminum: Pre-treatment and Process
To powder coat aluminum, clean and degrease the part, remove the natural oxide layer by chemical etching or deoxidizing (or by careful...
Hempel Coating Workshop in Argentina
MontiPower Brasil, with Dirk Pohlmann and his team, trained people from more than 22 companies at a Hempel coating workshop in Argentina,...
The different tools for surface conditioning
Surface conditioning tools clean metal and prepare it for coating. The main groups are abrasive blasting (sand, grit, glass bead, shot, vapor),...
MontiPower: the solution in the field of surface preparation
Abrasive blasting is effective, but it brings silica and dust hazards, spent media, containment and a reliance on specialist crews. MontiPower®'s Bristle...
What is welding and what techniques are used?
Welding joins two materials, usually metals, into one by melting them locally with heat, pressure or both, often with a filler metal....
What is vapor blasting?
Vapor blasting, also called wet abrasive blasting, mixes water with an abrasive such as glass beads, aluminum oxide or crushed glass and...
What is galvanized steel?
Galvanized steel is steel coated with zinc to protect it from corrosion. The zinc acts as a barrier and also corrodes sacrificially,...
All about the different types of corrosion in pipelines
The main types of corrosion in steel pipelines are uniform (general) corrosion, pitting, crevice corrosion, galvanic corrosion, stray current corrosion, stress corrosion...
Tools for surface preparation
MontiPower® makes hand-held rotary tools for surface preparation without loose abrasive. The Bristle Blaster® cleans steel and creates an anchor profile in...
Preparing steel with MontiPower's power tools
Steel preparation means removing mill scale, rust, old coating and contamination and creating an anchor profile so a new coating can bond....
Abrasive blasting: everything you need to know
Abrasive blasting propels abrasive particles at a surface, usually with compressed air, to remove rust, mill scale and coatings and to create...
What is surface preparation?
Surface preparation is the cleaning and, where required, profiling of a substrate before coating: removing mill scale, rust, old coatings, oil, soluble...
MONTIPOWER joined the CAS-ALLIANCE
In December 2020 MontiPower® joined the Cordless Alliance System (CAS), the multi-brand 18 V battery platform. At a press conference on 8...
Cover Story World of Pipelines
MontiPower® had the cover story of the April 2020 edition of World Pipelines magazine. The article, "From blast off to landing", describes...
DNV Offshore hydro unit
In February 2020 MontiPower® presented a DNV offshore hydro unit: a hydraulic power unit that can drive up to five Subsea Bristle...
Preservation Holding AS and MONTI - Werkzeuge GmbH have joined forces
In December 2019, Preservation Holding AS ("Presserv"), majority owned by Norvestor VII, L.P., and MONTI-Werkzeuge GmbH, maker of the Bristle Blaster® and...
New Subsea leaves the factory
In December 2019 the first series of water-driven Bristle Blaster® Subsea units was ready to leave the MontiPower® factory for field deployment....
MontiPower® Australia wins award for 'Best Exhibition Booth'
MontiPower® Australia won the award for ‘Best Exhibition Booth’ at the Corrosion & Prevention 2019 conference, organised by the Australasian Corrosion Association...
New hydraulic underwater device
In September 2019 MontiPower® introduced the Subsea Bristle Blaster®, a hydraulic underwater surface preparation tool with a water drive. It was shown...
MontiPower®UK contracted to maintain Royal Navy submarines
In June 2019, Cactus Industrial Ltd., the licensed UK and Ireland distributor of MontiPower® Bristle Blaster® technology, received a purchase order from...
MontiPower® joins businesses into Montipower®Americas, inc.
In February 2019, Monti Werkzeuge GmbH agreed with its US distributor MontiPower® Inc. and owner Chuck Lockard to combine that business with...
MontiPower power tools: the alternative to sandblasting
The main alternatives to sandblasting are other blast media (soda, glass bead, dry ice), water jetting and grit-free power tools. For steel...
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