Challenge Corrimal High School shop in Australia. The Corrimal High School’s Industrial Art Department was operating with 8 outlets attached to an extractor that was a bag style shaker machine. The school had been using this shaker type system for over 25 years. When the school decided to expand, this system could no longer keep up. With the addition of...
Challenge New England Woodcraft has been in the custom contract furniture manufacturing business since 1963 and has furnished a number of universities, colleges and military bases all over the world. In 2001, they added new sander/sealer equipment to their operation and needed a dust collection system to capture the sealer finish fines. Solution Camfil APC sales rep Brian Flynn of...
Challenge Wood Technology is an architectural woodworking facility. They design, manufacture and install commercial products — including countertops, cabinetry, trimming, and paneling — for schools, hospitals, and offices. Their varied woodworking processes all produce fine, fibrous wood dust that can be prone to an explosion if not properly handled. To combat this problem, Wood Technology employed a small baghouse dust...
Challenge Vigilant, Inc. is a world leader in the manufacturing of finely crafted cigar humidors, wine racks and cellars, gun cabinets and custom cabinets. Continued business growth led to a relocation to a larger facility, but the increased level of production was no match for their undersized cyclone and baghouse setup at the old plant. The new operation would require...
Challenge Wyoming Refinery Company is a 15,000 barrel-per-day oil refinery that has been in operation since the 1940s. Clay Iacovetto, the maintenance supervisor for Wyoming Refinery Company, described their process. “We produce fuels: gas, diesel, jet fuel, propane, butane,” he explained. Many various types of equipment are used — reactors, exchangers, pumps, towers — and each piece requires piping to...
Challenge KSMV (Kristiansands Skruefabrikk & Mekanisk Verksted AS), located in Southern Norway, is a modern, well-equipped workshop with 105 highly educated employees. Otto Hansen established the workshop in 1918. The company is continuously developed and is a specialized subcontractor with primarily offshore deliveries. Quality, service and on-time delivery are critical to satisfying the high demands of this industry. When KSMV...
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