It’s a match! How to find the right... industrial vacuum cleaner?

Dynamic, innovative industrial processes, such as Metal Additive Manufacturing (AM), need reliable and adaptable partner technologies e.g., concerning maintenance cleaning. However, the role of industrial vacuum cleaners in everyday operations is often underestimated.

Alot is happening in the industrial world right now: Since Manufacturing processes are being rethought to become adaptable ever faster, AM is playing an increasingly important role in various industries (such as aviation, medicine or automotive). This is also made clear by the current study on the state of the additive manufacturing industry, the Wohlers Report 2022: The industry can show a growth of 19.5 % compared to the previous year.

Better clean than sorry

No matter where an AM printer is used, the printer chamber must be vacuumed to ensure safe and clean operation. During the printing process, aluminium or titanium dust is produced. These are gradually deposited in the printing chamber. If the dust is stirred up, not only is the health of the employees endangered, they actually can explode!

The devil in the details

Dust? You take a vacuum and remove it. But in case of AM, it is not that easy. The metal dust can cause serious illnesses when inhaled or explode in the vacuum cleaner during extraction or at the latest afterwards. For this reason, a special industrial vacuum cleaner with inert technology is needed, such as the safety vacuum cleaner with wet separation from Evo-Products. The professional vacuum cleaner passivates and binds the explosive metal dust through a liquid bath. Therefore, they are no longer reactive.