Silica dust control in mining and mineral processing is one of the most important worker safety priorities. Silica is one of the most abundant minerals in the earth’s crust and plays an essential role in many industrial supply chains. Silica sand and other silica-co...
Combustible dust can create serious fire and explosion hazards in almost any industrial manufacturing environment. When solid combustible materials are reduced to fine particles through processes such as machining, sawing, grinding, buffing, polishing, drilling, cut...
The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) is a U.S.-based international nonprofit organization that develops consensus-based fire and life safety standards. Developing its fire safety standards since 1896, NFPA publishes hundreds of codes and standards cover...
A company using pneumatic conveyors to move grass seeds into storage bins manually cleaned dust and dirt with shovels and brooms. Its old dust collector, equipped with horizontal filter cartridges, was ineffective due to insufficient airflow. Unaware of...
A Canadian aerospace company considered retrofitting its dust collectors that were used for removing combustible dust generated during high-velocity oxygen fuel (HVOF) coating, blasting and grinding applications. The plan was to upgrade five old unit...
In our quest to discover why companies are choosing to Join the Switch to Camfil, one manufacturer expressed the importance of customer service and a customized approach in configurating its total dust collection systems. The customer explained their se...
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