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New Age Blast Media^®opens 2 new plants in California!

Novetas Solutions LLC is pleased to announce that New Age Blast Media^® made from 100% crushed glass, is now available at two major plant facilities located in Southern and Northern California. As a result of a new supply contract with Strategic Materials Inc (SMI ), New Age Blast Media can now claim to be one of the only expendable abrasives that are actually manufactured from coast to coast in the United States. SMI is the largest glass recycler in North America with 40 plants across the country. Novetas is very excited to now have the chance to offer employers and workers on the West Coast and Hawaiiaccess to New Age Blast Media and the many worker health and environmental benefits from using crushed glass abrasives.

Each plant will offer our standard 3 sizes of Med-Coarse, Medium and Fine products which are available in various packaging types:

Location of New Plants:

Northern CA - San Leandro, CA 94577 ( suburb of Oakland/San Fran Metro )
Southern CA - Commerce, CA 90040 ( inside the Los Angeles Metro off Rte. 5 )

US Navy QPL Approval Status for new Plants in CA:

Novetas is also pleased to report that we have initiated the QPL approval process with Navsea and the local certified military plant inspection teams to obtain Navsea approval for each new plant in California. Once approved, these plants will be able to ship New Age Blast Media to all contractors and job sites for the military and US/State government jobs that require QPL approval under Mil-A-22262. Novetas currently has 2 plants authorized by Navsea located on the East Coast in the Philadelphia PA and Richmond VA suburbs.

Both CA plants are now shipping New Age Blast Media to customers and distributors throughout the West Coast, please call us at 1-866-775-6266 for stocking distributors in your area or visit us online at www.newageblastmedia.com for more details. We now have expanded our staff and hours to accommodate orders from the West Coast!

What is New Age Blast Media®?

New Age Blast Media® is an alternative 100% recycled glass sandblasting media that directly benefits the environment while eliminating the health risk of airborne carcinogens-giving a modernistic approach to sandblasting abrasives.

Recycled glass blasting media has been successfully substituted for silica sand and other blasting media in shipyard trials and in other construction projects and equipment cleaning. New Age Blast Media® competes with common abrasive alternatives as well as niche materials such as plastic pellets used on sensitive surfaces. Glass can be used as a dry blasting media or combined with water for use in slurry blasting.

In addition to worker safety benefits, New Age Blast Media® works great for sandblasting thick or soft coatings, aluminum, brass, bright metal, and "spot and sweep" applications.

Cleaner: New Age Blast Media® is manufactured from 100% Recycled Container Glass that directly helps reduce landfill waste and limits the use of more toxic slags. It is non-reactive and inert, and can be used near and around water.

Safer: New Age Blast Media's® dust is classified by OSHA/NIOSH as "nuisance" dust. Contains less than 1% free silica unlike most coal slags and has virtually none of the OSHA identified Heavy/Toxic Metals associated with slags and some other mineral abrasives.

Silica sand blast media in its natural state has a crystalline structure that has the capacity of “sticking” to lung tissues. Our recycled glass blast media is amorphous with a closed structure that doesn’t absorb anything and doesn’t physically stick to tissues. If a person is exposed to amorphous glass fines or dust, the body can expectorate the dust as it would any other type of natural dirt.

Faster: New Age Blast Media's® crushed glass delivers a natural, whiter metal finish that many other sandblasting abrasives. Significantly less embedment issues—up to 5 times less than slag blast media. Crushed glass blast media's dust is translucent, which allows for increased visibility and operator production!

Novetas Solutions believes that what a company stands for is as important as what it produces. We provide our customers with numerous ways of obtaining information and sending us their feedback.

We encourage customers to contact us with their feedback, comments and questions and our customer service department will contact you within 48 hours.

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"Workers have a right to know if they are being exposed to toxic chemicals," said Justin Feldman, worker health and safety advocate with Public Citizen's Congress Watch division. "But coal slag manufacturers are not indicating that their product contains cancer-causing beryllium. Some companies even have the audacity to market their product as non-toxic. OSHA needs to enforce the law and end this practice at once."

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