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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Environment Protection Directorate within the Malta Environment and Planning Authority has revised the stop notice issued to Palumbo Shipyard to allow grit ...

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 ...