Restrictive environmental legislation and a greater awareness of the health hazards have provided the need for the further development of vacuum blasting. The advantages are not limited to prevent environmental and health problems. In many applications it is also a fully justified method of surface preparation on an economic basis.
An extended period of blast cleaning steel, fabrics, concrete, bricks, facades and floors pointed out that in most cases, the vacuum blasting method of LTC machines, gives a highly competitive cleaning solution compared with other cleaning methods such as open blasting, wet blasting, high pressure water cleaning or using chemicals. Even in some of the cases the LTC vacuum blasting technique was not just the cheapest, cleanest and quickest method, but also the only possible method for cleaning the surface.