And that’s a wrap! We finished up the fall trade show season at FABTECH 2018 in Atlanta, GA. Here’s a look at the Nilfisk booth and review of our most popular vacuums for metalworking applications. Visit our industry page for more models and information on...
The 2008 explosion and fire at the Imperial Sugar Company in Port Wentworth, Georgia, is the best-known example of a combustible dust incident at a food manufacturing plant. And for good reason: the fire was devastating. It killed 14 people and injured 38 others....
One of the biggest misconceptions we hear today is the idea that if your facility isn’t a hazardous or classified environment, you don’t need an NFPA-compliant vacuum cleaner. In fact, we hear this so often, we made a Myth Busters video about it! The truth is that if...
Do you feel like there are so many new compliance regulations that you don’t even know where to start? The compliance landscape for the food industry is already complex. And between FSMA (rolling out now), NFPA 652 (finalized September 2015, compliance dates starting...
Have you tested your dust? If not, it’s time to get on that. Under the recently released NFPA 652: Standard on the Fundamentals of Combustible Dust, material explosivity testing is now a requirement for all facilities that generate, handle, or store dust. This means...
