Challenge Sink Factory, Inc. (SFI) is a manufacturer of cast polymer products. In 2004, they started their business in a facility that already had a baghouse dust collector in place. However, the volume of dust generated by the grinding and sanding of the cast sinks proved to be too great a challenge for the undersized collection system. Employees with protective...
Challenge Michelin, based in Clermont-Ferrand in the Auvergne region of France, is one of the world’s largest tire manufacturers, with manufacturing plants in France, Germany, USA, United Kingdom and many other countries worldwide. At their research and development center in France, Michelin developed a new machine to remove defective tires from the production line and reprocess them to meet their...
Challenge The GS32 industrial dust collector working on paper and glass dust. Prior to the installation of the Camfil APC Gold Series 32 dust collector system, Veolia's building was filled with fine airborne dust, which consisted of paper dust and general household dust. -- NORMAL -- Solution After the dust collector was installed, the building suddenly became a different place to...
Challenge Farley Laserlab manufactures plasma and laser tables. They are located in Rockford, Illinois and have corporate offices in Melbourne, Australia. They contacted Camfil APC due to a problem they were having with a Torit collector on a new table. The table and collector were sold and installed at Chatham Steel in Columbia, South Carolina. The Torit collector was undersized...
Challenge Jeffboat provides custom design and construction of marine vessels and equipment. This industry leader specializes in hopper barges, tank and oceangoing tank barges and towboats. During the manufacturing process, their plasma cutting systems were producing excess smoke, which the existing water table was not able to satisfactorily eliminate. Another factor considered in making the decision to go "Downdraft" was...
Challenge PNA Construction bought a plasma cutting table that came with a Micro Air unit. Earl Anderson of PNA Construction says, “It was the worst filtration system I could have imagined buying.” The Micro Air had 8 filters, and the construction company doubled the filtration system’s size in order to alleviate some of the problems. That solution did not work....
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