Industrial & heavy-equipment

Strip Rust, Paint & Scale.
Spare the Machine.

For yards that dismantle, refurbish, and resell heavy mining and milling machinery, surface prep is the bottleneck. Pulsar's fiber laser ablates decades of rust scale, baked-on grease, and old lead-based paint off crushers, ball mills, flotation cells, and locomotives — with no grit, no masking, and no hazardous-waste cleanup — so assets move through the yard faster and come out inspection-ready.

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Steel wheel — heavy rust to bright metal · drag to compare

The problem with blasting

Conventional Prep Costs You Time, Tolerances & Compliance.

Sandblasting, bead blasting, and chemical washing each refurbish a surface by fighting it. On precision machinery, that trade-off is expensive.

Grit Damages Precision

Sand and bead media pit, warp, and erode machined faces, shaft journals, and tolerances — the exact features a refurbished asset is sold on.

Waste You Pay to Haul

Blasting turns one job into tons of contaminated media. Old lead-based paint or chemical residue means hazardous handling, containment, and disposal fees.

Hours Lost to Masking

Bearings, seals, hydraulic fittings, and electronics all have to be painstakingly masked off before grit ever flies — piling labor hours onto every asset.

The laser solution

Vaporize the Contaminant. Leave the Metal.

Laser ablation uses a high-intensity pulsed fiber beam to flash off rust, scale, grease, and paint — and stops at the bare substrate. Hand-held or automated, it removes the core inefficiencies of mechanical and chemical cleaning.

Operational metric	Traditional blasting / chemical	Pulsar fiber laser
Substrate impact	✗ Abrasive — risks pitting, warping, and dimensional erosion.	✦ Non-contact — zero degradation to the underlying steel or alloy.
Secondary waste	✗ Large volumes of contaminated grit or toxic chemical runoff.	✦ Near-zero — contaminants captured by localized vacuum filtration.
Prep & masking	✗ High — extensive masking to protect bearings, seals, and gears.	✦ Minimal — precise beam control cleans right up to delicate edges.
Consumable cost	✗ Ongoing blast media, chemical agents, and disposal.	✦ Electricity only — no ongoing material consumables.

What it means for your yard

Faster Throughput. Higher Resale. Less Risk.

Faster Yard Throughput

No blast containment to build, nothing to mask, no media to sweep. Technicians start cleaning immediately and move from heavy structural scale to delicate housings without changing setups — cutting turnaround by as much as 50% per heavy asset.

Tolerances Stay Intact

Laser ablation is non-abrasive, so it lifts scale off pinion gears, spline shafts, and bearing seats without removing base metal. The asset keeps its original engineering specs and redeploys reliably for the buyer.

Cleaner & Compliant

A HEPA-filtered extractor at the laser head captures ~99.9% of airborne particulate — including old lead paint — at the point of ablation. No grit pile, no chemical runoff, far less EPA/OSHA exposure for your crew.

NDT-Ready in One Pass

The beam exposes clean, bare metal — the ideal baseline for dye-penetrant, magnetic-particle, and ultrasonic testing. Cracks, micro-fractures, and weld defects show before high-liability machinery leaves the yard.

Built for heavy industry

Who We Work With.

› Mine & mill dismantling and supply yards

› Heavy-equipment dealers & refurbishers

› Crushers, ball mills & flotation cells

› Underground locomotives & rock breakers

› Fabrication & weld shops

› Fleet & maintenance operations

How we start

Prove It on Your Toughest Asset.

We don't ask you to take laser cleaning on faith. We bring it to your yard and show you, on the inventory you care about most.

On-Site Assessment

We evaluate representative machinery in your yard and dial in the right laser power for your toughest scale — heavy continuous or pulsed systems for thick rust and coatings.

Live Demonstration

A trial on your worst inventory, under real yard conditions, to prove speed, safety, and surface-finish quality before you commit to anything.

Tailored Plan

A clear plan for working the laser into your refurbishment flow — throughput, operator safety, and EPA/OSHA compliance, matched to the assets you turn over.

Put the Beam on Your Toughest Asset.

Tell us what's coming through the yard and we'll bring the laser out for a free on-site assessment and live demo — no obligation, no grit, no chemicals.

Request an On-Site Assessment

(509) 714-6263

Licensed, bonded & insured · Lic. PULSALC741LS · ANSI Z136.1 / OSHA-trained · Eastern WA & North Idaho

Strip Rust, Paint & Scale.Spare the Machine.