What is ATEX and why is compliance so important?

Atex FireATEX compliance is crucial for ensuring the safety of personnel working in environments with explosive atmospheres. It helps prevent accidents, protecting lives and property. Compliance with ATEX regulations is often a legal requirement, ensuring companies meet their obligations and avoid potential penalties or liabilities. You can find more information on our dedicated ATEX webpage.

ATEX is a regulatory directive that is recognised globally as a standard for equipment and protective systems intended for use in potentially explosive atmospheres. The ATEX directive provides a framework for ensuring the safety of equipment, protective systems, and components that are used in environments where there is a risk of explosion due to the presence of flammable gases, vapours, mists, or combustible dust.

Kerstar manufactures a range of ATEX approved vacuum cleaners for use in atmospheres that are potentially explosive. The unique features across all of the compressed air products are fully conductive accessory kits, and stainless steel canisters mounted on a stainless steel caddy fitted with conductive braked castors and wheels. The KEVA electric range of Type H vacuum cleaners has been purposely designed, built, tested and approved as suitable to pick up potentially explosive and conductive dust and debris in a Dust Zone 22. Kerstar's range also includes KEVA Premiums which offer reverse pulsation, alternating filter cleaning. The air powered KAV range is suitable for picking up hazardous dust and debris in Gas Zones 1 and 2 & Dust Zones 21 and 22 and is available for wet and dry applications. Finally, Kerstar also offers a Continuous Duty vacuum range consisting of the DGF and the ESS vacuums which can be used for long periods of time, even 24/7 if necessary.

Contact us or your local distributor to find out more about Kerstar’s range of ATEX rated industrial vacuum cleaners.

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