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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Grit-blasting is integral to all shipyard operations and has been carried out continually and without interruption for many years, Palumbo Shipyards said this morning. Referring to an article in ...

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 ...

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 ...

I find it necessary to comment on James Tyrrell's letter 'Risk of grit blasting the cathedral roof' (The Sunday Times, January 4). I have to inform Mr Tyrrell that having overseen the maintenance and ...

Australia is using two grit-blasting robots to clean the Sydney Harbour Bridge before it is repainted. The robots shoot out compressed air to cut through rust and old paint on the famous Australian ...