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Article: Bag House's Efficiency Leads to Cost Savings.(Diversified Millwork's baghouse dust collection system)(Brief Article)
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- Wood & Wood Products
- Article date:
- May 1, 2001
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Investment in dust collection system pays off for millwork firm.
WHEN BRUCE WHISENHUNT moved his woodworking operation, Diversified Millwork, into a 45,000-square-foot plant in Aurora, CO, he also added a high-volume baghouse dust collection system that is so efficient its $2-a-year operating permit is the lowest in the state.
"At our former location we had a traditional cyclone dust collector and paid $2,000 a year for our permit," Whisenhunt says. In moving into the expanded facility in 1997, Whisenhunt overcame the potential environmental problems associated with dust collection by installing a high-capacity Torit RF baghouse. The baghouse captures, ...