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NFPA Standards Series: NFPA 68 for Dust Collector Explosion Venting
According to NFPA standards, explosion venting is a key part of dust collector safety. NFPA 68, the Standard on Explosion Protection by Deflagration Venting, lays out these guidelines. Dust collector explosion venting, also called deflagration venting, allows...
Welcome to Dusty Jobs Podcast
This is the first episode of our monthly podcast on industry safety and dust collection. In this episode Donovan and Justin go over some of the topics that we will cover on in future episodes. They talk safety, products, news and more. Also they mention the...
Imperial Systems Quarterly Newsletter | Issue 11
Dusty Jobs 11 is here! We here from a few of our folks about FABTECH 2019 in Chicago as well as the yearly sales meeting we had while there. We tell you more about one of our latest products introduced at FABTECH. Charlie tells us about dressing the part and his...
Offline Cartridge Filter Cleaning
If you have a cartridge dust collector, you’re probably aware of the compressed air pulses that clean the filters. Although our header tank design controls noise levels, the cleaning mechanism isn’t exactly silent. If the dust collector pulse cleans the cartridge...
Factory Dust Control and Your Daughter’s Annoying Boyfriend
OK, stay with me for a minute. Any factory that produces dust needs some type of industrial factory dust control. Now, that dust from your factory processes may not eat all your leftover spaghetti or drive an obnoxiously loud car. But it does have some things in...
Shop Dust Safety is Like Baby Proofing Your House
Have you ever gone through your house and tried to spot everything that a curious baby might get into? If you’re looking at dust safety in your shop, start thinking about dust like a baby who just figured out how to open the kitchen drawers and pull things off the...