It also won't cut through some soft materials. Wayne Benitz, general manager of Blastrac, in Newman, GA, strongly recommends a test patch. After you put your coating down over the blasted area, you also can see how the finished floor will look. Remember that different coatings require different profiles. Thin coatings don't require much of a profile.
Drake agrees that special care is needed for thin-film coatings.
An advantage to shot blasting is that it's a dry process. There are no water or chemicals to deal with, so there's no drying process. That's important if you have a time constraint. You can go in when a factory is shut down for a period of time and have plenty of time to coat the floor. Cleaning up the few stray abrasive shot after the blasting process usually is simple.