Six years after a clampdown against the alleged landfilling of grit blasting material under a 5,000sq.m concrete platform at the Palumbo shipyard, the Environment and Planning Review Tribunal has yet ...

Grit-blasting at the Palumbo shipyards, that is polluting the Cottonera area, is set to continue despite residents’ concerns over health risks associated with the airborne by-product of the ...

Palumbo Shipyards and Malta Environment and Planning Authority officials will be meeting tomorrow in a bid to come up with solutions to address the grit-blasting problem that has been plaguing the ...

A specially designed valve developed by Hodge Clemco greatly increases the safety of grit blasting operations by reducing the time taken for equipment to depressurise when it is shut off. On standard ...

Frank Forcella was surrounded with apricot pits saved in an endless line of 5-gallon buckets. Apricot trees don’t fare well in the cold of Minnesota, but Forcella scratched out a hobby harvest each ...

Frank Forcella is tackling the problem of weeds head-on. A U.S. Department of Agriculture research agronomist in Morris, Minn., Forcella doesn't spray pigweed and foxtail with herbicides to shrivel ...

The stop notice on Palumbo's grit-blasting had been issued on 29 December 2010 following complaints received by MEPA, and the operator had been requested to propose mitigating measures to be adopted ...

LA based C&C Marine and Repair has announced the opening of their new indoor, climate controlled, Paint and Blast Facility. The 83,350 square foot facility can accommodate barges up to 320’x75’x20’ ...

When the maintenance team responsible for Sydney’s Harbour Bridge was given the green light to repaint the iconic bridge for the first time in its 81-year history, one of its top priorities was to ...