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 ...

The problem had been eradicated from the area during the Marsa Shipbuilding days but it seems to have made a comeback since the private Italian company, Palumbo, took over the shipyards a few months ...

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 ...

A first permit issued to the shipyard owners Palumbo to export grit from sand blasting, was issued back in November 2013, with the waste being eventually shipped to Portugal in January 2014.

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 ...

The Labour Party has expressed concern about sea pollution it says is caused by grit blasting work carried out by the Italian company Palumbo. Labour MP Silvio Parnis said the party welcomed the fact ...

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 ...