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Oct 28, 2024 Food & Beverage

Kerstar’s Advanced Vacuum Solutions for Food Safety

Maintaining a clean and sanitary environment is crucial in food production to ensure product safety and prevent the growth and spread of bacteria, all...

Sep 05, 2024 ATEX

What is ATEX and why is compliance so important?

ATEX compliance is crucial for ensuring the safety of personnel working in environments with explosive atmospheres. It helps prevent accidents, protec...

Aug 22, 2024 Company News

Kerstar Celebrates 65 years of Industrial Vacuum Innovation

Kerstar, a name synonymous with high-performance industrial vacuum cleaners, celebrates its 65th anniversary this year. Established in 1959, the compa...

Jul 31, 2024 Company News

Kerstar ATEX Vacuums Readily Available

Unlike most vacuum manufacturers, Kerstar does not shut down in August. We ensure our ATEX vacuum cleaners are readily available, with units in stock...

Jul 23, 2024 Company News

Kerstar Industrial Vacuum Cleaners Are Built To Last

Kerstar industrial vacuum cleaners have been manufactured in the UK since 1959 and sustainability has always sat at the very core of the brand. Unlike...

Jun 24, 2024 Company News

Kerstar introduces new Continuous Duty Vacuum range

Kerstar is excited to announce the launch of its new cutting-edge Continuous Duty vacuum cleaner range, engineered to meet the most demanding cleaning...

May 26, 2024 Exhibitions / Events

Kerstar's ATEX capability on show at TCT 3sixty

Kerstar will be showcasing some of its extensive range of ATEX certified industrial vacuum cleaners on stand D41, Hall 1 at the TCT 3sixty show at th...

May 23, 2024 3D Printing

Why ATEX Certified Industrial Vacuums are a must for 3D Printers

Some 3D printing processes can create non-conductive combustible plastic powder dust which must be safely removed once the process is complete. The po...

Mar 06, 2024 Advanced Surface Coatings

Kerstar ATEX Vacuums for Powder Coating Industry

Powder coatings are powdery mixtures of substances, mainly of an organic nature, with a particle size distribution of 0 - 120 µm. Together with ...

Feb 27, 2024 Maintenance Engineering

Comprehensive Servicing now available for UK customers

Kerstar understands the importance of maintaining peak performance in industrial cleaning equipment. That’s why with the right care and maintena...

Jan 18, 2024 Exhibitions / Events

Kerstar ATEX vacuum cleaner to feature at Southern Manufacturing

Kerstar is set to showcase the KEVA 45 Type H ATEX vacuum cleaner on the Filtermist stand (H235) at the upcoming Southern Manufacturing exhibition in ...

Sep 27, 2023 Aerospace/Automotive

Kerstar at the UK Battery Industrialisation Centre: Revolutionising Battery Tech Cleaning

The UK Battery Industrialisation Centre (UKBIC) is the UK’s national battery manufacturing facility providing battery manufacturing scale-up and...

Aug 04, 2023 Company News

Kerstar ATEX rated KEVA Premiums explained

Kerstar’s Business Development Manager, Brian Folland, was recently filmed explaining how the new KEVA Premium 50l and KEVA Premium CBS industri...

Jul 24, 2023 Company News

Kerstar to focus on ATEX industrial vacuum cleaners

Filtermist Limited, the manufacturer behind the Kerstar brand, has completed a strategic review of its product portfolio and will now be focussing its...

Jun 13, 2023 Food & Beverage

Clean up your food production site with Kerstar

Kerstar’s brand new range of KEVA Premium industrial vacuum cleaners include patented filter cleaning technology. They are able to safely and ef...

Apr 11, 2023 Exhibitions / Events

KEVA Premiums to debut at Foodex Manufacturing Solutions 2023

Kerstar's parent company, Filtermist Limited, will be heading to the NEC in Birmingham from 24th-26th April for Foodex 2023 to showcase a variety of p...

Apr 04, 2023 Company News

Cleaning Up in Hazardous Areas with New KEVA Premium Vacuums

Kerstar has introduced an exciting new range of KEVA Premium industrial vacuum cleaners that include patented filter cleaning technology for the safe ...

Oct 04, 2022 Exhibitions / Events

Kerstar cleaners star at Indian shows

Kerstar industrial vacuum cleaners have recently featured on stands at two high-profile trade exhibitions in India. Krypton Corporation, one of Absol...

Aug 25, 2022 Asbestos Removal

Meet Our Distributor: Beacon Safety Ltd

With branches in Wellington, Auckland and South Island, Beacon Safety Ltd is one of the largest suppliers of asbestos removal equipment and services i...

Aug 24, 2022 Company News

Need help maintaining your Kerstar Industrial Vacuum?

As part of its commitment to customer service, Filtermist International offers technical training for anyone tasked with maintaining Kerstar indu...

Aug 10, 2022 Exhibitions / Events

Kerstar industrial vacuum cleaner to feature at AMB

A Kerstar KSV 45/2 Swarf Vac will be just one of the products on show on the Absolent Air Care Group stand (Hall 8, stand C76) at the AMB metalworking...

Aug 04, 2022 Company News

Built to Last

Kerstar industrial vacuum cleaners have been manufactured in the UK since 1959 and sustainability has always sat at the very core of the brand. Unlik...

Jul 27, 2022 Company News

Meet Our Distributor: AVS Danmark

Kerstar has a number of distributors based both in the UK and throughout Europe, as well as in New Zealand and Singapore. We’ll be publi...

Jul 18, 2022 Exhibitions / Events

Kerstar KSV will be on show at HIMTEX

A Kerstar KSV 45/2W coolant and swarf vacuum will be on show on the Krypton Corporation stand(J31 in Hall 1) at HIMTEX (Hyderabad International M...

Jul 15, 2022 Company News

Kerstar acquisition - three years on

This week marks three years since Filtermist International Limited acquired Industrial Vacuum manufacturer Kerstar. Established in 1960, the Ke...

Jun 20, 2022 Asbestos Removal

See our KV Type H vacuums in action!

Many thanks to our distributor in New Zealand, Beacon Safety Ltd for sharing these photos of our Kerstar KV 25/2H industrial vacuum in action. T...

May 26, 2022 Company News

Clean up and protect your woodworking employees with Kerstar

Wood dust can cause serious health problems such as asthma; according to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), carpenters and joiners are four times ...

May 16, 2022 Company News

ATEX and Type H industrial vacuums are stars of the show at Interclean

The Kerstar team spent last week at Interclean in Amsterdam and reported that its ATEX certified and Type H vacuum cleaners for hazardous dust were th...

Mar 23, 2022 Exhibitions / Events

Kerstar cleaners at Interclean for first time under Filtermist ownership

Kerstar industrial vacuum cleaners will be on show on Stand 122, Hall 5 at Interclean in Amsterdam from 10th – 13th May. This will be the first ...

Feb 07, 2022 Exhibitions / Events

Kerstar products on display at MACH

Kerstar industrial vacuum cleaners will be some of the products on show on the Filtermist stand (430 in Hall 6) at the MACH exhibition in April. Filt...

Feb 07, 2022 3D Printing

Why ATEX Certified Type H Industrial Vacuums are a must for Additive Manufacturers

All employers have a legal obligation under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 to protect employees and other stakeholders from a variety of occup...

Jan 19, 2022 3D Printing

Kerstar KEVA adds value for AMEXCI

Swedish additive manufacturing company AMEXCI has reported a reduction in the time it spends cleaning in and around one of its machines since it switc...

Jan 10, 2022 Company News

Filtermist moves Kerstar production to Telford

Production of all Kerstar industrial vacuum cleaners, including Type H and ATEX rated models, has now moved to Filtermist International Limited’...

Dec 22, 2021 Company News

Health and Safety Executive in support of Swarf Vacuums

In a presentation recently published by Health and Safety Executive about control measures for metal working fluids, Fiona McGarry - HM Inspector of H...

Dec 15, 2021 Exhibitions / Events

Absolent Air Care Group to showcase capability at IMTEX

PLEASE NOTE, IMTEX HAS BEEN POSTPONED BY THE ORGANISER DUE TO THE ONGOING PANDEMIC AND THE OMICRON VARIANT. WE WILL UPDATE THIS PAGE AS SOON AS A NEW ...

Aug 20, 2021 Company News

Kerstar KSV keeps it clean for Filtermist

UK manufacturer Filtermist International has found that using a Kerstar KSV Swarf Vac has proved invaluable in keeping a new spinning machine and th...

Mar 10, 2021 Flood Recovery

Kerstar vacuums can help clean up in the event of flooding

According to gov.uk ‘2019 was the wettest autumn on record, and February 2020 was the wettest February on record, with some places receiving f...

Feb 10, 2021 Asbestos Removal

Asbestos - the risk to health and why it must be cleaned up properly

According to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) ‘Asbestos still kills around 5000 workers each year.’ ‘When materials that...