Stone Carving Company Gets Dust Collection Solution That Rocks!

At Capital Stoneworks, master carver John Goodrow Sr., carvers Gene Buchinger and Troy Spencer replicate and originate carvings to match classical architectural styles throughout the mid-west. They have over 100 years combined experience in the stone industry. The limestone, sandstone, bluestone, flagstone and other stones create an enormous amount of dust in the four booths where slot hoods remove it to a Farr Tenkay collector. Unfortunately the old collector purchased on eBay doesn’t have the capacity required for the four booths.  To solve the problem, the company added a new high efficiency cartridge dust collection system.

Farr Gold Series model GS10 relieves the particle load once captured solely by the older, undersized Farr Tenkay collector.

"They appreciate that the Gold Series® collector is maintenance friendly with a control panel that is the easiest to work with" said EXFil Branch Manager Fred Marshall.  Continue reading this stone dust collection case study...

Pharma Dust at GlaxoSmithKline

GlaxoSmithKline is one of the world’s leading research-based pharmaceutical and healthcare companies and is committed to improving the quality of human life by enabling people to do more, feel better and live longer.

Health and safety is a top priority of GlaxoSmithKline and they invest heavily in the best equipment to provide protection for their work force.

At their new facility in the UK GlaxoSmithKline invested in a new dust collection system especially designed for pharmaceutical production. The two dust collectors were supplied with bag-in/bag-out door options, dual valve offload for product removal, explosion suppression systems and HEPA after-filters.

The Camtain solution comprising BIBO for safe filter changes and continuous bin liner for safe waste product collection and disposal.

The first collector was linked to a series of ten production suites, of which any four could be in operation at one time. A complex control system was supplied as part of the project to switch extraction between these suites, whilst maintaining a constant air volume within the system and reducing energy consumption.

The second unit, which was a high-vacuum dust collector, was connected to the house vacuum system, providing a high-pressure vacuum cleaning facility within the new production suites and surrounding areas.

Read more here about safe-change dust extraction at GlaxoSmithKline and learn more here about dust collectors for pharmaceutical processes.

Metal Foundry Hazardous Lead Level Fumes Solution

National Bronze & Metals, Inc. is a leading manufacturer and master distributor of brass, bronze & copper alloys in the United States. Houston, Texas is the home of the National Bronze & Metals, Inc. corporate office but this particular hazardous fume issue was at their foundry in Lorain, Ohio which has been in business since 1997. In November of 2009, the foundry expanded their manufacturing and warehouse facility by over 200,000 sq. ft. That expansion, came with new challenges and a need for a bigger dust collector. The system needed to capture all fumes due to the hazardous lead levels generated in their particular foundry. Click here to learn more about how the hazardous lead level fume issue was solved.