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Flextraction to exhibit new fume and dust equipment products at MACH 2008

Posted March 3rd, 2008

Flextraction Ltd, supplier and manufacturer of Local Exhaust Ventilation (LEV) products for dust and fume extraction in the workplace will be exhibiting a number of new products as well as existing products, on stand nr 4440 at MACH 2008, NEC, Birmingham.

New products include a brand new TEKA plasma cutting table with integrated fume extraction, TEKA’s new ‘ZPF9’ central de-dusting cartridge filter system with 9 long life BGIA M filter cartridges and a dust collection efficiency of > 99%, with the filtering device being equipped with PULSE-CONTROL for easy use and programming.

TEKA’s new high performance ‘Wet Dust Separator’ with a high dust collection efficiency for a wide range of applications, including difficult dust conditions will be demonstrated.

Other new products on show include a new grinding bench from TEKA for simple disposal of grinding dust, where dust is extracted through to the back and to the bottom of the table. 90% of the particles collected are separated immediately by an integrated pre-separator.
Other dust and fume equipment on show will include TEKA’s ‘Caremaster SF-W’ Stationary welding fume filter for almost every type of industrial fume extraction problem. It is equipped with a durable filter cassette, pre-filter unit, filter monitor, sealing face lifter, hour-meter, wall bracket and protective motor switch for wall mounting. Alongside it will be TEKA’s BGIA: 200520840/1140 approved ‘Cleanmaster’ mobile, high-performance welding fume filter for industrial fume extraction. It has a visual and acoustic filter monitor, sealing face lifter, hour-meter, cable reel and castors with brakes as standard.

TEKA’s BGIA: 200520840/1140 approved ‘Strongmaster’ mobile cartridge filter for industrial fume extraction comes equipped with a separator, durable, de-dustable, large-surface filter cartridge and PTFE laminate will be shown. The filter cartridge stays in the unit during de-dusting preventing dust from entering the workroom.

Other equipment on show will include Kiekens ‘Mistmaster’ centrifugal mist separator for the filtration of oil mist at turning lathes, milling and other production machines and iekens centralised vacuum system for on welding gun fume extraction and a TEKA ‘Handycart’ mobile portable high-vacuum extraction unit with manual de-duster or fully-automatic pneumatic de-duster and infinitely adjustable speed control as well as a downflow extraction bench and extraction equipment for print processing equipment.

Industrial cleaning equipment will be highlighted by Kiekens ‘W192 / Wet & Swarf’ cleaner for the suction of slightly contaminated liquids, swarfs and accompanying coolants, lubricants and wet industrial waste. Characterized by a strong suction power with a low noise level, it contributes to dust free and safer working conditions.

Flextraction’s new web site goes live!

Posted January 23rd, 2008

Flextraction Ltd, the Melton Mowbray, supplier and manufacturer of Local Exhaust Ventilation (LEV) products for dust extraction and fume extraction in the workplace, has launched its new website www.flextraction.co.uk which has been structured to enhance the Company’s identity in the market place and greatly improve its usability, as well as providing faster access to information on the company, its products and services.

 The company’s products are divided principally into 6 groups comprising extraction arms, filter systems, vacuum systems, extraction fans, downflow booths and other products, along with accessories. There is also a section on Services and Support that the Company offers as well as a Latest News section with all the company’s press information and images, including application stories.

 Lee Darton, Sales Manager at Flextraction said: “This new website replaced our old site at the beginning of January.  It has taken a considerable amount of painstaking work to complete, but in the end the information that is now available to visitors to the site far exceeds anything we were able to do with our former website.”

Flextraction Move to Larger Premises

Posted October 4th, 2007

After 10 successful years in the centre of Melton Mowbray, Flextraction Ltd, the specialist solution provider capturing at source all forms of airborne contamination – dust, fume and oil mist has moved to larger, more modern premises on the outskirts of the town.

The Company had outgrown their town centre site and the new facilities on the Leicester Road Industrial Estate, enables the company to have a larger products display area for customers as well as an expanded manufacturing area and more office space.

Lee Darton, Flextraction’s Sales Manager said:

“We have enjoyed considerable growth over the last few years and have literally outgrown our town centre premises. The new premises are more modern, spacious and with room for further expansion. We have also installed a brand new telephone system, which will allow our customers and suppliers to have improved communications with us. This move will enable the Company to continue its growth in the fume, dust wet and swarf extraction markets. This is a multi-million pound market covering a wide variety of sectors including welding and general fabrication, foundries, educational institutes, medical laboratories, hospitals, commercial offices, printing, food production to nail bars and hairdressing. Health and safety of the workforce in the workplace is statutory in 2007 and will continue to be even more so over the coming years.

Not only do we design and manufacture our own range of fume and dust extraction equipment, we are also sole UK representatives for Kiekens Products BV, Holland, industrial high vacuum cleaning systems, TEKA GmbH, Germany localised extraction arms, portable and fixed filter systems manufacturer and Fumex AB, Sweden extraction arms and filter manufacturers.”