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The one 'facility' that is really a dozen small industrial environments under one roof — a woodshop that is a woodshop, a machine lab that is a machine lab, research labs that handle real chemistry — where the hazard is that nobody thinks of a campus as an industrial site until the dust says otherwise.
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Fine and respirable fractions retained
Right Tool Per Room
Each lab gets its own rule
Built for Campuses
Shop class to research lab
Combustible-Aware
The dusts students actually make
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Schools & Universities production process explorer
Every stage. Every challenge. The right vacuum solution.
A campus generates industrial dust in rooms nobody classifies as industrial. Walk the spaces — each one borrows its rule from the industry it imitates.
Stage 01 — Woodworking & shop classes
A school woodshop sheds the same combustible wood dust as any furniture plant, at student scale — grounded, rated recovery and the woodworking program's discipline apply here too.
Key challenges
A campus is an industrial site nobody labeled
Shop-Class Wood Dust
A teaching woodshop makes combustible wood dust like any plant — student scale does not change the physics or the recovery rule.
Makerspace Metal Fines
Lathes, mills and metal 3D printers in makerspaces produce metal dust — including reactive aluminum and titanium that carry combustible-metal rules.
Real Lab Chemistry
Research and teaching labs handle combustible, toxic and specialty dusts in small quantities — small volume is not the same as low hazard.
Silica In The Studio
Ceramics clay and glaze powders are silica-bearing — the same respirable-silica exposure rules apply in an art studio as in a foundry.
Many Rooms, Many Rules
One institution runs a dozen small industrial environments — each space needs the recovery approach of the industry it mirrors.
Occupied By Non-Specialists
Students and instructors, not industrial hygienists, occupy these spaces — so the equipment and the schedule carry the discipline for them.
Dust & materials knowledge center
The dusts a campus actually makes
Combustibility and severity are material- and particle-size-specific — testing and your Dust Hazard Analysis govern. Full directory: the full materials directory.
Applications on campus
- CNC machining
- CNC milling
- CNC turning
- CNC grinding
- Metal cutting
- Laser cutting
- Plasma cutting
- Waterjet cutting
- Deburring
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HEPA Vacuums
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Industrial Vacuums
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Explosion Proof Vacuums
Grounded, bonded recovery for combustible dust
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Central Vacuum Systems
Facility-wide housekeeping from fixed drops
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Representative case study
Regulated Metal Dust Control in a Government
A representative scenario: containing beryllium and other regulated metal dusts across a machining and materials research facility.
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