Industries
Every industry faces unique air quality challenges that impact worker health, safety, and compliance. Understanding these risks is the first step toward creating cleaner, safer, and more efficient workplaces.
Wood Dust Exposure
Cutting, milling, and planing timber generates fine wood dust that can cause respiratory issues, allergies, and long-term health problems if not properly managed.
Fire & Explosion Risks
Accumulated wood dust can create highly combustible conditions, increasing the risk of fires and dust explosions without effective extraction and containment.
Equipment Contamination
Dust buildup on machinery can reduce efficiency, increase maintenance needs, and contaminate timber products if not controlled.
Regulatory Compliance
Timber processing facilities must adhere to strict workplace health and safety regulations, requiring reliable dust extraction systems to protect workers and maintain compliance.
Egmont Air provide specialist consultation, advice and analysis using their trusted specialists with over 3 decades of experience in Dust & Fume extraction solutions, so you can be confident that you are compliant with industry regulations and get the best solution for your application.
Client Case Studies
At the end of December 2019, devastation hit Inglewood Timber Products (ITP) – Fire – the nightmare of any woodworker and timber processor…. Within minutes, the building was enveloped in flames and fire-fighters quickly arrived on the scene, working hard to bring the fire under control but it wasn’t without the ruin of the building and machinery.
Big Tuff Pallets
Clelands Timber
Halswell Timber, Christchurch
Hardie & Thomson, Christchurch
Inglewood Timber Processors
