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Welding Fume Extraction Market: Awareness Drives Growth

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The global welding fume extraction equipment market is on an impressive growth path. A study by Future Market Insights revealed that the sector is expected to grow at 5.5% annually until 2033, reaching a market value of over seven billion dollars—far surpassing the US$ 4.3 billion recorded in 2023. But what’s driving this growth, and how does ...
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Auto Extract Systems Celebrates 20th Year Anniversary

Auto Extract Systems Celebrates 20th Year Anniversary

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Auto Extract Systems Ltd achieves landmark achievement and celebrates its 20th year anniversary. Formed in 2001, the primary aim of the business was to help businesses provide pollution-free workplaces. However, there’s been a number of advances and changes in the industry since we began, which we’ve embraced and adapted to in order to help ...
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Foundry Company Fined for Lead Dust Exposure

Foundry Company Fined for Lead Dust Exposure

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A foundry was sentenced and fined for safety breaches of lead dust exposure. Workers were exposed to harmful dust during a restoration project. The project involved stripping off the rust and paint from a metal bell and structure. It was only after the project had begun and had been underway for some time that the ...
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Engineering Company Fined for Welding Fume Exposure

Engineering Company Fined for Welding Fume Exposure

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  An engineering business was sentenced and fined in after a welder fabricator developed hypersensitive pneumonitis, a serious and irreversible respiratory illness which develops after long-term exposure to welding fumes and metalworking fluid. The welder fabricator was at risk of inhalation of welding fumes and metalworking fluid mists, which potentially contained harmful bacteria. His 30-year ...
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Engineering Company Fined for Metalworking Fluid Exposure

Engineering Company Fined for Metalworking Fluid Exposure

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An engineering company that works in the automotive sector company was sentenced and fined in May 2021 after an employee developed an allergic form of dermatitis after being exposed and coming into contact with metalworking fluids. In April 2019, an employee was splashed in the face and upper body with metalworking fluid whilst cleaning a grinding machine. ...
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