Highly efficient filter equipment for contamination-free filter changing is available for the Fuchs compact filter devices of type KKF and MKF in connection with a special cover module.

Consisting of a pre-filter stage and main filter, this system has proven effective for laser emissions or welding smoke from a technical and especially an industrial health and safety point of view.

The Fuchs filter elements are structured so that the pollutants enter by a nozzle on the inside.

The filters can therefore be changed without contamination because the filter elements are only touched from the outside.

Depending on the quantity, this technique is also suitable for extracting fine dusts. Air volumes of 75 – 600 m³/h can be processed.

RHS Sperlich in 63110 Rodgau took over the support of Fuchs customers as a service partner in the postal regions of Hessen and Bavaria from the 1st of July 2010. RHS Sperlich will carry out maintenance, guarantee and service work on the Fuchs extraction and filtering devices and systems in the regions mentioned with immediate effect.

Due to RHS Sperlich’s almost 20 years of experience as experts in clean-room servicing and the maintenance of air systems, we at Fuchs are convinced that our customers will get competent and even faster local service.

Richard Drautz, State Secretary in the Ministry of Economic Affairs of the State of Baden-Württemberg, visited the Fuchs Umwelttechnik stand at the LASYS trade fair in Stuttgart.

Hans-Peter Durchdewald, Head of Sales at Fuchs, showed him around the stand, commenting on the range of extraction and filter systems and drawing particular attention to the new developments on display.

Given the ever increasing importance of environmental protection and pollution control in industry, Mr Drautz is keen to find out more about this subject, and decided there and then to accept an invitation to visit the main Fuchs Umwelttechnik plant in Staig-Steinberg in the course of the year.

With 3,800 professional visitors, the response to the LASYS was far better than the fair organisers had expected. The Fuchs Umwelttechnik P+V GmbH booth was heavily frequented on all 3 days. The new MKFP 415P extraction and filtering device from Fuchs particularly attracted the attention of the professional public.

The advantages of this new development are:

High quality electronic control with fully automatic filter and fan monitoring
Maintenance free SR motor
Online link via Ethernet
Differential pressure or time-controlled and compressed air-aided cleaning of the filter cartridges
No interruption of the extraction process during filter cleaning and dust tank changing due to the new bypass technology
Integrated fire extinguishing equipment
Low-contamination disposal of the fine dust emissions

We are pleased to report that several reservations and sales were already agreed with key customers at the fair.

Fuchs Umwelttechnik is presenting its full range of innovative products and technical possibilities at the LASYS in Stuttgart.

Our development and sales engineers will be on hand for technical consultation. Make an appointment for a meeting by calling phone number +49 7346 96140 or visit us directly at our fair booth in Hall 1 Booth 1H32.

We look forward to your visit.

In response to special customer demands, different additional components are used based on the proven Fuchs compact MKFVA102 dust separator with two BIA tested filter cartridges.
An integrated bypass which bypasses the filter cartridges during the on-line cleaning process serves to prevent the production and extraction process at the measuring point being influenced by a possible surge of compressed air.
Another feature is the integrated, pneumatically controlled dusting unit. This module offers the possibility of blowing inert dust into the filtering device to lower the combustion factor of extracted, highly reactive dusts to an uncritical level. Since a combustion factor (classified from BZ1 to BZ6 in accordance with VDI 2263) of three and less means that the dust is self-extinguishing, not even extracted sparks or smouldering particles can cause a fire as investigations by DEKRA EXAM have shown.
Another new feature is the automatic, low contamination dust extraction which is enabled by two electrically controlled locking flaps. The defined volume between the first and second flap is monitored by a filling level sensor, i.e. the first flap opens after every filter cartridge cleaning process until the filling level sensor responds. If this is the case, the second locking flap opens and the collected dust is emptied into a PE foil bag. This process is repeated five times until the machine outputs a warning message to the operator at a defined volume. The second locking flap then stays closed until the operator has changed the foil bag and acknowledged the warning message. This ensures that the dust is disposed of without contamination at regular intervals.

Fuchs Umwelttechnik P+ V GmbH was represented at the HATAG booth at this year’s Swiss Plastics Fair from the 19th to the 21st of January. The sales partners of Fuchs Umwelttechnik in Switzerland presented products and systems for plastic processing and the related high-quality extraction technology over an area of 1,000 square metres. The fair which is staged every two years drew crowds of professional visitors and the orders received by Fuchs Umwelttechnik in the wake of the fair were most pleasing.

From 1st of February 2010 Fuchs Umwelttechnik will be intensifying its sales activities in Northern Germany. Uwe Sieg will be responsible for looking after the existing regular customers and new acquisitions in this region. He has long standing contacts and years of experience in the marketing of industrial products.

Customers of Fuchs Umwelttechnik can expect an even faster service and expert consulting in future from the constant presence in this sales area.

One of the biggest technical museums in Europe has opened a further exhibition area on the theme of “robot technology and use of lasers”.

World market leaders in these fields are supporting this presentation with their products. These technologies are presented attractively to visitors over an area of 100 square metres.

FUCHS UMWELTTECHNIK ensures that the particle debris created during laser operation can be safely disposed of with an extraction and filtering unit.

http://speyer.technik-museum.de

ISM took over the postcode areas 1, 2, 38 and 39 as a service partner from the 1st of December 2009. ISM will be carrying out the maintenance, guarantee and service work on all Fuchs Umwelttechnik extraction and filtering equipment in the region mentioned with immediate effect.

“We are convinced that our co-operation with ISM will help us to offer our customers, an even faster local service.” Hans-Peter Durchdewald, Head of Sales at Fuchs Umwelttechnik, comments this decision.

More compact extraction and filtering device type KFS075E Very high quality as at the large units! Automatic filter monitoring via differential pressure. Sturdy powder coated steel sheet housing.

Premium quality suction fan with an EC motor for permanent operation.

Suction nozzles ND 32 top centred.

Speed regulator
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Air volume max.: 30 - 75 m³ /h
Static pressure max.: 1700 Pa
Sound pressure level at 1 m distance: approx. 53 dB(A)

Device dimensions LxWxH in mm: 250x250x400 mm
Weight without filter equipment: approx. 14 kg

(Subjekt to changes in the interest of technical progress.)

Interesting? Please send us your inquiry.

1 October 2009 Staig-Steinberg
Hans-Peter Durchdewald is the new sales director at Fuchs Umwelttechnik GmbH . At the age of 54, he has more than 15 years of experience in the field of technical sales and was last employed at Martin Yale International.

"In his previous positions, Hans-Peter Durchdewald has proven that he has the necessary skills to perform his new task at Fuchs," says Harald Fuchs, managing partner of Fuchs Umwelttechnik P+V GmbH.

"In the past few years, Fuchs Umwelttechnik has shown that it is capable of achieving constant, solid growth," says Durchdewald about his new employer. "I am looking forward to the new challenge and I would like to make my contribution to the success of Fuchs-Umwelttechnik, especially in the field of international sales."

Hans-Peter Durchdewald is an economics graduate of the University of Heidelberg and reports directly to the partners.

24,000 visitors came to get an overview of the “Laser and Optronic Fair” and “Laser and Laser Systems for Production” in the 4 exhibition halls over an area of more than 50,000 square yards.

Fuchs Umwelttechnik presented its complete range of products and technical possibilities at the fair. The exhibited innovations convinced the numerous professional visitors.

Despite the international economic problems CEO Harald Fuchs was very pleased with the outcome of the fair: “The number of contacts was much better than expected and we had some very concrete negotiations with our customers. In addition there were some interesting ideas for co-operations and developments. We already have a firm booking for the next fair date in Munich.”

Fuchs Umwelttechnik P+V GmbH, specialists in extraction and filter technology, will be represented in Switzerland by HATAG AG from May 1, 2009.

With this new co-operation, Fuchs Umwelttechnik based near Ulm is responding to growing demand. "We want to improve and intensify our service and consulting on the Swiss market," says Harald Fuchs, CEO. He regards short delivery times and top quality as guarantors to achieve high customer satisfaction. "HATAG guarantees excellent consulting and rapid service on the market."

Fuchs Umwelttechnik has already been working successfully with HATAG AG in Switzerland for many years so this step is merely a logical consequence.

The co-operation was sealed by Mr Grossenbacher and Mr Schönbauer signing the contract at HATAG in Bollingen.

In the Regional Archaeology Museum at the Schleswig-Holstein Foundation of Regional Museums, organic archaeological materials such as textiles, leather, bast and block excavations are restored and preserved under the leadership of Mrs Gabriele Maria Zink (Diplom Restorateurin FH).

Preservation and restoration demand a high level of expert knowledge. At the same time, the minutest fragments and the tiniest details are meticulously documented (on photographs or 1:1 drawings using microscope drawing tube in magnified scales).

Task definition:

Extract and filter

: solvents during cleaning, impregnation and bonding work : fine dust from the uncovering of corroded objects : particles, mould, spores during work on block excavations.

An extraction and filtering device Type MKF 108/109 from Fuchs-Umwelttechnik is now used to protect the health of employees and keep the work room air clean. All spores are directly extracted away from the restorer's respiration area directly from the surface of the object through special suction nozzles and extraction hoods and filtered through the integrated HEPA (High Efficiency Particulate Air) filter.

The filter combination comprises a prefilter for dusts, a particulate air filter H14 for mould and spores and a large-capacity activated carbon filter for solvent vapour. The filtered air can remain in the work room.

In this application, the extracted air is also routed to the atmosphere via a folded spiral-seam tube. The work room was separated from the other rooms in the central workshops.

Due to the capacity of the MKF108/109 (180 m3/h) the air in the separated work room can be exchanged approx. three time an hour. Firstly the air pressure in the work room is reduced to ensure that no spores can wander uncontrolled to the other workshop rooms.

The extraction and filtering device MKF108/109 from Fuchs-Umwelttechnik is therefore perfectly designed for direct extraction at the object and for cleaning room air – it is a highly flexible device for the protection of your health under special efficiency conditions.

Link: www.schloss-gottorf.de

From now on the new Fuchs cartridge filtering unit series will be equipped with the “SIEMENS LOGO!”. This will take over the control of the dusting and fire protection function. This equipment series is used for dust emissions which demand a more complex handling as far as the filter technology is concerned. These are applications, for example, in which either heavily exothermal particles or sticky emissions occur which makes proper handling absolutely essential.

The “SIEMENS LOGO!” controllers are in use in millions of industrial applications and set the standard for small controllers.

The new plain text display makes the operation clear and absolutely user-friendly.

“SIEMENS LOGO!” basic units are also available world-wide as spare parts.

The expanding sales and service network of Fuchs Umwelttechnik has now been joined by PANTRON Automation Inc in North Carolina USA and Laser Resources in Australia.

Through these associates we offer our customers optimised servicing activities and consultation services.

In solar cell production there is a high demand for effective and energy efficient extraction and filtering equipment for the direct extraction of laser fumes. The new development of the MKFVA 103/102 offers extremely flexible applications. It has a compact, mobile construction and is equipped with two automatic cleaning prefilter elements to permit extremely long filter service lives.

Renowned solar cell manufacturers have already integrated our systems in their production with great success.

Under the management of Dipl.-Ing Sven Barth, the existing laboratory has now been further expanded by the recent purchase of state-of-the-art measurement instruments.

The precise analysis of dust and emissions permits the exact design of extraction and filtering systems in critical application cases.

With effect from January 1, 2009, a partnership has been concluded with DEUTSCHE LEASING which belongs to the Sparkassen Finanzgruppe (Financial Group of German Savings Banks).

From this time on, Fuchs Umwelttechnik offers its customers the possibility of leasing its products and systems at favourable terms and conditions. Through E-Leasing, applications can be verified within a short period of time and brought to conclusion.

During the international “Denkmal” conservation, restoration and old building renovation trade fair in Leipzig, the successful joint venture was further intensified. Deffner und Johann presented the new compact filtering device in a wooden housing from Fuchs Umwelttechnik on its trade fair stand. There was an excellent response from trade visitors with many orders placed. Further joint activities for restoration firms are already in preparation.

Sven Barth, (Dipl.-Ing.) process engineer, joined the team at Fuchs Umwelttechnik in September 2008. His graduate thesis entitled “Investigations on the Avoidance of Exothermal Metallic Dust Reactions in the Laser-Welding of Chrome-Nickel Steels”, which he conducted at Fuchs Unwelttechnik, was awarded the Carl-Isambert Prize of TÜV Süd (German Technical Inspectorate, Southern Branch) at the University of Mannheim open day on 11 November 2008. The award comes with prize money of 2,500 euros.

The experience Sven Barth has gained from his work in safety engineering, in particular in the analysis of dust and the resulting solutions, will help to further improve the quality of consultancy services offered by Fuchs Umwelttechnik.

Intelligent concepts
offer new perspectives

Raw materials are becoming scarcer and therefore more expensive. This is the case today and the situation will grow worse in the future. Fuchs Umwelttechnik already has the right solution now, with new developments made of renewable raw materials. Wood is a serious economic contender since it is cheap to purchase and is not affected by fluctuating raw material prices.

Why wood?

Wood is an alternative material for the housings of our devices. It is easy to process into any shape, it has absolute dimensional stability and is extremely insensitive to external influences. It is always available at realistic prices since it is a renewable raw material that is grown in our country.

What about quality?

As with our well-known model series, we also apply our strict quality measures to this series. Wood perfectly meets the extremely high demands of our extraction and filter systems and even exceeds previous standards. For example, wood reduces operating noise to a considerable extent. All connection parts, add-on parts and accessories fit on our new extraction and filter systems made of wood.