ESCA Industries, Hatfield, is into professional blasting, a service it supports with no explosives. Eric Garbe explains in Engine Builder Magazine.

ESCA — Environmentally Sensible Chemical Alternatives — is a rental company that supplies specialty cleaning equipment and media.

Its “blasting” is the high-pressure application of sprayed material used to remove dirt, grime, graffiti, paint, powder coating, mold, and residue from floods and fire.

It’s most referred to as sandblasting, but this firm relies on more than just that. Its equipment enables high-pressure streams of glass beads, walnut shells, dry ice, corn cobs, and garnet, a silicate mineral with abrasive qualities.

ESCA’s current go-to material is baking soda.

In the same way baking soda cleans teeth without damaging them, sodium bicarbonate is excellent for restoration projects: It’s strong, yet doesn’t damage.

Given that many ESCA renters work in the food-service industry, the baking soda option is ideal, providing both cleansing and sanitizing advantages.

ESCA, which has been in business since 1984, is all-encompassing.

“We can provide the blaster, the air dryer, compressor — the whole system,” said Jeff Paduano, ESCA president and owner.

“On top of that, we provide safety equipment (PPE), and we also supply various accessories, nozzles and parts. You name it we do it.”

A fuller account of the professional grit behind ESCA Industries is at Engine Builder Magazine.