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Explosion Proof Vacuum Guide
What makes a vacuum explosion-proof, when one is required, and how to specify it.
Knowledge Center
Understand the hazard before you buy the equipment
Plain-language guides to the standards, the science and the housekeeping decisions behind combustible-dust compliance.
Dust Risk Checker
Is your dust a combustible hazard?
Four questions that organize the factors a Dust Hazard Analysis looks at first.
What best describes the dust?
How fine is it?
Do layers build up on surfaces between cleanings?
Ignition sources nearby (motors, hot work, static)?
Educational orientation only — this is not a Dust Hazard Analysis or a safety determination. Your DHA and authority having jurisdiction govern your obligations.
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Industrial Dust Control Solutions
The housekeeping hierarchy: capture at source, vacuum recovery, and what OSHA expects.
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Combustible Dust Vacuum Solutions
Matching recovery equipment to organic dusts, reactive metals and mixed process waste.
6 min read
NFPA Standards Guide
NFPA 652, 654, 484 and the industry standards consolidating into NFPA 660.
4 min read
Dust Hazard Analysis
What a DHA is, who performs it, and what it means for your housekeeping equipment.
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Combustible Dust Risk Checklist
A plain-language self-check for whether your dust, housekeeping and equipment raise a combustible-dust flag.
Talk to the manufacturer
Get the right explosion proof vacuum for your application.
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.
- Legally certified explosion proof
- Solid stainless steel construction
- Industry-best 3-year warranty
- Designed & manufactured in the USA
- 200+ vacuum versions