Self-contained production rooms

Following completion the new AIS training and production centre with the Hodge Clemco equipment, the blasting and painting courses for off-shore personnel have been formally approved by the industry skills body OPITO. The new facility has also increased AIS’s fabrication capabilities for engineered products.

All three production rooms are 4m wide x 3m high x 5m long with double doors at one end fitted with two large viewing windows that give a good view of the interiors when training courses are in progress.

The blast room has a steel floor and is lined with rubber curtains to reduce abrasion and media ricochet. The spray room has high-quality lighting units in the roof and smooth white internal walls to provide optimum visibility without shadows. For the welding and fabrication room a wall-mounted exhaust fan has been fitted which maintains a negative pressure and draws fresh air through a filter-panel in the doors.