Static electric shock to our workers while vacuuming excess powder coating was a concern," says Miller, Vice President of Miller Welding and Iron Works, a custom job shop fabricator based in Washington, Illinois. We couldnt adequately sweep the fine powder residue from the floor, lights, booth walls, and components, and there were potential flammability issues with the powder and the electric shop vacuums we were using. With the shop vacuums, our productivity suffered too since we not only had to vacuum but also clean by hand using wet rags to prepare booths for the next powder coating job."
Miller sought out www.VAC-U-MAX.com, which offers the industrys only written static control guarantee. To eliminate any shock, fire, or explosion hazard associated with electric or engine driven units, a Venturi compressed air-powered vacuum was installed with anti-sparking vacuum inlets and grounding lugs, static conductivity from end to end, including a static conductive hose with internal ground wire and grounded end cuffs that prevent static build up.
The air operated vacuums were designed for powder applications like ours," says Miller. They eliminated both our static electricity problem and the spark concern we had with our previous electric shop vacuums. Not only that, but theyre also 30 percent faster than the old shop vac equipment, cover more area, and pick up finer material. Smaller particles are trapped in the filter, which is safer for our staff."
Clean filters thus translate into higher productivity, less operator exposure to contaminants, and higher accountability for controlled substances. This can be vitally important for industries like pharmaceutical, which not only tracks every ounce of product for the FDA, but also needs to recover ingredients that may be worth hundreds of dollars per ounce, and safeguard operators from ingredients blowing around in the air that may affect them. For applications like this, the company offers automatic off-line filter cleaning capability on its continuous vacuum systems as well.
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