Case Study
Downflo® Oval with Ultra-Web® Cartridge Filter Captures Ambient Pharmaceutical Dust
Downflo® Oval with Ultra-Web® Cartridge Filter Captures Ambient Pharmaceutical Dust The Donaldson® Torit® Downflo® Oval (DFO) dust collector is ducted from the feed hopper and the vibratory bed on the packaging machine, to capture the dust generated by the packaging process. Recently business has increased at GPSI, a packager of tablets, pills, capsules, and other medicines for human consumption. Once the packaging machine became busier, Nick Rini, engineer, found his crew was no longer able to keep the machine clean and dust out of the air with their hand-held vacuum cleaner. Pink dust in the ambient air was evidenced in the pink tinge on walls, baseboards, and on ceiling air vents of the room. Nick called in Donaldson® Torit® to consult on dust control solutions and the sales engineer ma