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....
Challenge West Texas Lee Company, Inc. (WTL), a company that produces agriculture equipment and sprayers, attended a trade show in 2007 and discovered the AKS Accu-Kut plasma table. WTL purchased a unit for their operation and AKS suggested Camfil APC fume and dust collection products to work together with the plasma table. The agricultural company was faced with either making...
Challenge E&E Metal Fab., Inc., was cited by the Department of Environmental Protection Agency for violation of exhausting smoke and dust into the atmosphere. In a bidding process, Camfil APC pitted their Gold Series against Torit’s DFO 18. Jeff Pittenger of Effective Controls represented Camfil APC and worked with E&E to develop a dust collection system that would work with...
Challenge Fisher Snow Plow uses a plasma table to cut 3/8" to 1/2" carbon steel parts in their snowplow manufacturing operation. Farr dealer Dave Brennan of Brennan Environmental sold them a Gold Series® to replace a competitive unit that never worked well. Installed in July 2004, the GS10 was equipped with PTF cartridges totaling 4,250 square feet of media, producing...
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