International Surface Preparation Forms Wheelabrator Group

January 1, 2005 (Golden, Colorado) – The newly formed Wheelabrator Group is the world’s premier provider of wheel and air blast products and services.   Wheelabrator Group owns and operates leading and trusted product lines like Wheelabrator, Schlick, Sisson Lehmann, Pangborn Europe, Spencer Halstead, Wheelabrator Tilghmann, Vacu-blast and others.  Wheelabrator Group is a separate and distinct business unit - entirely devoted to the wheel and air blast businesses - belonging to International Surface Preparation Corporation. 

The formation of the new group was based in part toward providing a tighter synergy between related brands to benefit the customer from the shared technologies the individual brands offer.  Robert Joyce, President of Wheelabrator Group, explains “pooling the efforts of our dedicated wheelblast and airblast brands gives us a competitive advantage and value proposition that is unmatched in the industry.”  Mr. Joyce continues; “each brand that is now part of the Wheelabrator Group offers unique capabilities to the marketplace. By combining these unique capabilities, we have formed one global entity that has the greatest collection of application expertise in the surface preparation industry.”

Already recognized as a quality and service leader globally, the Wheelabrator name has a 100 year legacy of providing technologically advanced wheelblast solutions. The newly formed group will continue to remain committed toward supporting its current install base while focusing efforts to providing customers with better solutions to their surface preparation challenges.