Fume Control at a Large-Scale Industrial Welding Facility

Project Overview

An automatic solutions-based company that specialises in robotic welding for large-scale projects, was creating a lot of toxic fumes from their welding activities. RVT Group was called to provide our expertise in solving this issue.

Challenge

The nature of the company's work involved constantly changing parameters and challenges that needed to be overcome daily. The specific challenge that prompted them to contact RVT Group was their need to do weld tests using 'flux core' wire. Flux core wire is a very useful and versatile welding wire, but it produces dangerous smoke that is harmful to anyone around it.

The weld tests being undertaken required intense supervision by a team of engineers during live welding operations. This meant that there was a risk of multiple people being exposed to harmful fumes.

An extraction system was required to capture the fumes at the source and filter them, removing the exposure risk.

Solution

A RAVEX Mobile Welding fume filter was brought into the company's warehouse to capture and filter the fumes generated by the welding tests.

The operations manager was very impressed with the unit, as it handled everything that they threw at it.

Its ease of operation, mobility, and the fact that the unit operates on a standard 10A power plug was very appealing to the team.

They had been unhappy with other complex filtration units they'd used previously, and to them, the RAVEX® unit was a breath of fresh air.