What You Need to Know About Effective Source Capture
December 10th, 2025 | Posted in Air Cleaners
Maintaining air quality in many manufacturing facilities can be a challenge. Often, the sources of airborne contaminants are spread around the shop making general, or ambient, air cleaning infeasible. In these cases, in the air cleaning industry, we often use Source Capture (also known as Local Exhaust Ventilation or LEV) to capture airborne contaminants. Effective source capture air cleaning is particularly appropriate in the case of exceptionally harmful contaminants such as hexavalent chromium created by…
Continue Reading »Coolant Mist Control: Key Considerations for Choosing the Right Technology for Your Shop
September 23rd, 2025 | Posted in Air Cleaners
For decades, dealing with coolant mist has been a challenge for facility managers, supervisors, and machine operators. In the 1970s, many machine shops were filled with a visible haze of coolant mist. Operators wore aprons soaked in mist, shop floors were slick, and in some cases, coolant even dripped from the ceiling. Today, we know better. Coolant mist is a serious airborne health and safety risk that requires control. Thankfully, modern machine enclosures and advanced…
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