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One of the questions we are often asked is “In the case of filters, what’s the difference Between an ePTFE Membrane vs. a PTFE Finish?” What is the Difference Between PTFE and ePTFE? Commonly known as Teflon®, PTFE, which is short for polytetrafluoroethylene, is a synthetic fluoropolymer of tetrafluoroethylene (that’s the…

Improve Safety, Performance and Reliability With Our Maintenance Checklist.   The importance of having an inspection/maintenance program for your dust collector cannot be understated. Depending on the issue, dust collector downtime caused by maintenance issues can be catastrophic, costing a company days– or even weeks– of missed production while making repairs…

While dust collection systems and components are durable, they need proper maintenance to avoid problems down the road. Regular maintenance and thorough troubleshooting can prevent and help fix problems with your dust collector, reducing downtime, cutting costs, and improving productivity. It will also help protect your employees, your community, and…

Wet scrubbers remove particulates, vapors, and gases from the exhaust stream of a process. The goal for a wet scrubber is to remove over 99% of pollutants and particles. The smaller the particles in the waste stream, the more difficult the particles are to remove. What is the Efficiency of…

A wet scrubber effectively cleans or “scrubbing” particulates and chemicals from industrial exhaust gases. Because wet scrubbers use water or a water-based solution to collect pollutants from the exhaust stream, plant managers view the equipment as more complex than dry dust collection systems. While there may be more engineering complexity,…

Your Questions Answered in Our Must-See Video If you have a dust problem in your facility, you need a solution, but before you rush out and buy a dust collector system “off the shelf,” there are some things you need to consider. In fact, you should never rush into a…

Where combustible dust is a concern, there is only one sure sign that your safety protocols are working: zero safety incidents. But even a perfect past safety record is no guarantee that you will never have an incident in the future. Keeping your facility and your workers safe requires constant…

As awareness of industrial dust and dust safety grows, so does the need for accurate information. Although it is not possible in this short article to answer every question, we hope the following list of frequently asked questions and answers will be helpful. What is Industrial Dust? Industrial dust is…

Pollution Control: How to Determine if Your Facility Needs a Dust Collector When some people see the title to this blog, their knee-jerk reaction might be something like, “Wouldn’t it be obvious if I needed a dust collector?” Well, if your employees are gasping for breath due to the amount…