Aerospace
Midvale Industries specializes in aerospace maintenance and manufacturing applications to keep your aircraft flying longer. We are innovators of environmentally friendly practices, organic abrasive, and custom engineered processes to make sure you achieve the smoothest surfaces without harming metal or composites.
Aerospace Coating Removal
Remove any coating from any type of surface using our environmentally friendly selective stripping process.
Composite Bond Prep
Create a clean, even etched finish with no media embedment to prepare your composites for the bonding process.
Composite Tool Cleaning
Safely and effectively clean your tooling and molding while reducing costs and wear caused by hand sanding.
Metal Bond Deflash
Quickly remove excess adhesive without damaging the underlying surface, including aluminum and composites.
More Aerospace Applications & Services
Mobile Blast Room Demo
Midvale has a mobile demo truck fully equipped with a blast room to process sample parts or help properly train your staff. Talk to our team about process development, testing samples or scheduling our truck to come to your facility for training.
Aerospace Peening
We offer air and wheel blast systems for peening high stress parts like gears, springs, drive shafts, axles and more. Round abrasives such as cast steel, ceramic, glass, and stainless steel shot are used to create uniformed compressive stress layers to prolong service life and reduce part failure. Peening also straightens parts that have been bent during heat treatment and machining.
Other Benefits of Peening
- Offsetting tensile stresses and changes in tensile strength due to grinding and chrome plating
- Reducing porosity in castings that could lead to leakage of fluids
- Improved oil retention on pistons, cylinders, and bearings due to small indentations created by media
Aerospace MRO and Engine Remanufacturing
We offer equipment and supplies for Aviation MRO engine manufacturers and rebuilders. Our equipment is built in the USA and designed to meet strict aerospace specifications. Below is a partial list of the items we provide.
Air blast systems include blast cabinets, automated systems, and robotic systems. View here.
Wet blast systems that reduce media embedment, dust, and parts pre-washing. View here.
Parts washing systems for cleaning oil, grease, or other contaminents from engine components. View here.
For sensitive substrates and precision coating removal, we offer corn hybrid polymers (EnviroStrip®, EnviroStrip® XL and eStrip® GPX Type VII). View our blast media here.
Our in-house lab can help determine the most effective process for your parts. Call us today at 800-341-0043 for more information.
Awards & Recognition
The Closing the Circle Award
The Closing the Circle Award honors federal facilities and individuals for excellence in reducing their use of toxic and hazardous chemicals, eliminating waste, recycling, and purchasing of a variety of products with energy and environmental attributes.
Cornstarch and the Coast Guard
Cornstarch and the Coast Guard is an article that discusses the U.S. Coast Guard’s use of cornstarch media as an environmentally responsible way to remove paint from aircraft. Read the article here.
Buying Green
The United States Navy has been recognized for their Green Procurement or Environmentally Preferable Purchasing and their decision to use Midvale Environmental as a distributor partner.
Midvale Environmental Technologies
Midvale Environmental Technologies has been working with military and commercial aerospace maintenance and repair shops for over 20 years to provide environmentally responsible solutions that aid in preserving aircraft integrity, worker safety, and environmental stewardship of products used in the blasting and coating removal process. Our recycling program is approved throughout the country by various state regulatory agencies including in the State of California.
Aerospace Process Development
Midvale has partnered with many military bases and commercial aerospace companies to develop processes, floorplans and best blasting practices. We strive to make sure each individual application is designed to be cost efficient and increase productivity.
Are you stripping airframes with dangerous chemicals?
Talk to our team today about converting to an environmentally safe option that will help preserve your aircraft.