Camfil APC has designed its Farr Gold Series® industrial dust collectors to remove hazardous and nuisance dusts from factories while occupying the smallest possible floor space. Farr Gold Series collectors are built from 3-foot-six-inch square modules that can be combined in dozens of configurations to fit the specific work environment.
An explosion is a serious risk at many manufacturing, processing and metalworking plants, and it can even stem from a dust collection system that’s protected incorrectly.
Keeping welding shops free from dust and fumes is important for employee health and environmental safety. For easy dust collection at multiple sources throughout the plant, Camfil APC offers the Zephyr III™ Portable Dust Collector. The Zephyr is ideal for facilities that perform maintenance welding or intermittent production welding.
Camfil Air Pollution Control introduces its upgraded mobile-optimized website, camfilapc.com. The redesigned site also provides global access in multiple languages, with the first phase including American English, UK English, German and Chinese.
If your dust collector handles combustible dust, the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) requires you to equip your system with deflagration protection. That's why Camfil APC offers the Stinger™ explosion isolation valve, a cost-effective, NFPA-compliant way to contain a deflagration that occurs in a dust collector.
OSHA has cited Supplyside USA of Lenox, Illinois for machine safety violations after an employee was injured while conducting maintenance on equipment. The pallet manufacturer faces $91,832 in proposed penalties for two repeated, six serious, and three other-than-serious violations.
It has been a year since Donald Trump took office. Despite promising to be a friend of workers, Trump has spent much of his first year making our workplaces less safe.
AFL-CIO Director of Safety and Health Peg Seminario described Trump's actions:
The U.S. Chemical Safety Board has long asserted that chemical dust explosions are a "serious industrial safety problem." CSB research reveals that nearly 200 dust fires and explosions have occurred in U.S. industrial facilities over the past 25 years, resulting in approximately 100 fatalities and 600 injuries.
Camfil APC has launched an eCommerce site that stocks high-performance retrofit filters for most leading dust collector brands. CleanFactoryAir.com features HemiPleat® premium retrofit filter cartridges, which are guaranteed to last longer than standard filters.
According to OSHA, combustible material can burn rapidly when in a finely divided form. If such a dust is suspended in air in the right concentration, under certain conditions, it can become explosive. Even materials that do not burn in larger pieces can explode in dust form.
