Canam Minerals, Inc.

Canam Minerals, Inc., doing business as Kleen Blast Abrasives, manufactures and supplies blast abrasive materials—sandblasting grit, steel grit, aluminum oxide, copper slag, and related abrasive products—to the Department of the Navy as a small business prime contractor under Total Small Business set-asides. The Danville, California-based for-profit manufacturer holds a subsidiary, Pacific Abrasives & Supply Inc., and competes almost exclusively under small business set-aside vehicles; 95% of recent awards carry Total Small Business or Competitive 8(a)-equivalent designations.

Naval procurement dominates Canam's customer base. The Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) placed 193 awards worth $3.6 million in combined potential value, and the Navy's U.S. Pacific Fleet Forces placed 135 awards worth $898 thousand. These two commands account for approximately 87% of the award count and 96% of combined potential value. The Department of Homeland Security U.S. Coast Guard, the Department of the Navy Naval Supply Systems Command, and the Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation round out the active customer set, each with single-digit award counts. Work is performed at Canam's Danville facility and at customer locations including Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, and subordinate commands across the U.S. Navy's operational footprint.

Representative recent contracts include a $225 thousand firm-fixed-price purchase order from NAVSEA (May 2024) for 100 bags of aluminum oxide grit (size #24) for naval vessel surface preparation, a $213 thousand NAVSEA purchase order (May 2024) for 300 bags of non-metallic abrasive grit meeting MIL-A-22262B specifications, and a $44.4 thousand firm-fixed-price purchase order from NAVSEA (December 2025) for medium blend #35 grit blast abrasive materials. Contract values typically range between $2 thousand and $225 thousand per purchase order, with most orders falling in the $35 thousand to $225 thousand band. The vendor sits on multiple Navy Basic Ordering Agreements and Indefinite Delivery Contracts: BOA N0040684D1440 carries six task orders, and BOA N0040687D0536 carries four task orders. NAICS 327910 (Abrasive Product Manufacturing) frames 315 of 377 awards, with PSC Abrasive Materials dominating the procurement classification at 341 awards.

Activity accelerated in 2024 (19 awards) after a three-year baseline of 2–6 awards annually. Combined obligated dollars across all awards total $7.1 million against $4.9 million in combined potential value, indicating consistent overrun reflecting Navy consumption patterns and order-specific award modifications. Recent contracts with completion dates in the December 2024–January 2026 window total approximately $1.1 million in potential value and face routine Navy recompete cycles.