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Vacuum solutions engineered for aerospace manufacturing

Aerospace machines the two most demanding structural metals — titanium and aluminum — alongside conductive composite dust and additive manufacturing powders, inside the most documentation-heavy quality culture in industry. The dust program and the FOD program are the same discipline pointed at different consequences.

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  • Explosion-Safe Design

    Engineered to NFPA 484 / 660 practice

  • HEPA Filtration

    Fines retained, not redistributed

  • Static Control

    Grounded & bonded recovery

  • Built for Aerospace

    Machining cells to MRO bays

  • Explosion-Proof

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    Vacuums sold worldwide

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  • NFPA 660

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Aerospace & Defense production process explorer

Every stage. Every challenge. The right vacuum solution.

From structural machining to the test cell, each stage generates a different dust family with different rules — reactive metal fines, conductive composite dust and the finest AM condensate all live in one plant.

Stage 01 — Titanium & aluminum machining

Structural machining makes the plant's most severe streams — titanium fines with documented fire history and St 2 to St 3 aluminum — wetted, sealed, material-dedicated recovery.

Key challenges

Certification-grade cleaning for certification-grade parts

  • Titanium's fire history

    Titanium machining fires are documented industry-wide — fine swarf and grinding fines ignite far more easily than the solid metal, and burning titanium resists common extinguishers.

  • Reactive metal discipline

    Aluminum and titanium fines each carry NFPA 484 legacy requirements — wetted collection, sealed handling and material-dedicated equipment close the pathways.

  • Conductive composite dust

    Carbon fiber dust is electrically conductive and abrasive — a settled film inside cabinets and controls is an electrical fault waiting for a surface.

  • AM powder rules

    Alloy-dedicated recovery, condensate treated as the most reactive fraction, and a hard wall between the reuse stream and the disposal stream.

  • FOD culture alignment

    Foreign object debris programs already schedule, document and verify cleaning — the dust program plugs into that machinery rather than inventing its own.

  • Documentation load

    Validated methods, defined frequencies and records that survive an audit — cleaning here is a controlled process like any other.

Dust & materials knowledge center

Understand the dusts. Match the recovery.

Common Aerospace & Defense materials and recovery approaches
MaterialCombustibleRecovery approachDeep dive
Titanium fines & swarfYes — fine fraction ignition-sensitiveWetted, sealed recovery; material-dedicated units; no water on burning metal
Aluminum machining finesYes — St 2 to St 3 severityWetted, sealed explosion-proof recovery
Carbon fiber / composite dustMatrix-dependent — typically low explosibility, electrically conductiveHEPA recovery; electronics and control areas on a defined frequency
Nickel superalloy dustVaries — exposure limits often govern firstHEPA capture and sealed disposal; alloy segregation
AM powder & condensateYes — finest, most reactive fractionAlloy-dedicated explosion-proof recovery; condensate at low disturbance
Blasting media & oxide finesVaries — media and substrate governHeavy-duty recovery sized for abrasive mixed debris

Combustibility and severity are material- and particle-size-specific — testing and your Dust Hazard Analysis govern. Full directory: metal dusts.

Applications in aerospace

Built for performance. Built for compliance.

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Representative case study

Recovering Titanium Powder in a Metal Additive

How a representative aerospace-focused AM producer made powder handling safe and economical at once — air-operated explosion-proof vacuums with immersion separation for one of the most reactive dusts in manufacturing.

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Tell us what you need to vacuum and where. Our technical team will recommend the PrestiVac model best suited to your material, your classification and how hard you will work it — and because we build every unit ourselves, we can modify it to fit.

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