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When it comes to air quality control, nothing is more tried and tested than the humble baghouse. Used for over a century to capture airborne dust particles in industrial environments, baghouses and dry dust collectors help manufacturers keep their businesses cleaner and ultimately safer for their employees.  With this long history comes innovation. Just as engineers have had the choice…

What Is a Baghouse? A Complete Guide to Industrial Baghouse Dust Collectors Industrial facilities generate dust during nearly every material handling and processing operation. Whether you’re moving powders, grinding metals, handling grain, or processing chemicals, airborne particulate can reduce product quality, create safety concerns, increase maintenance costs, and impact regulatory…

Most every industrial application creates dust and other harmful particulate. To maintain safe levels of air quality and comply with regulatory agencies, particularly with combustible dust, you need a way to manage air quality control, like using a dust collector or wet scrubber. According to the National Fire Protection Association…

When it comes to air quality, it’s important to choose the best air pollution collection system for your specific application. Choosing the right system can mean the difference between a safe, productive work environment and a plant shutdown. Wet scrubbers, also known as wet dust collectors, are becoming increasingly popular…

A common type of wet scrubber that industrial companies use is the packed tower scrubber. Packed tower scrubbers, also known as packed bed scrubbers or packed column scrubbers, are a type of wet scrubber specifically designed for the chemical scrubbing of gaseous contaminants from airstreams. These scrubbers, when designed correctly,…

Air quality control is important to the success of every business, especially ones with industrial applications. The best way to maintain a high level of air quality is by using dust collection equipment. Dust collection equipment improves air quality in your facilities by removing harmful pollutants that can endanger workers,…

Since the types and mechanisms of air pollution are always changing, the equipment used to control the air pollutants that we make must change and evolve as well. Here at Sly we know that better than anyone. With over a century-and-a-half experience in the air pollution industry, our technology has…

Air pollution management is important. With particulate matter linked to over 30,000 deaths a year in the US alone, air quality control systems are essential to keeping manufacturing environments cleaner and safer. The Clean Air Act clearly shows the federal pressure we all face for a cleaner (and safer) work…

At Sly we often receive questions from callers about the right way to change-out the filter bags on their dust collectors. While it’s a detailed process, learning how to change-out your envelope filter bags will save you both time and money otherwise spent replacing them earlier than necessary. Whether you…