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This acronym, derived from European directives, refers to the atmosphere of a work area presenting an explosion risk and requiring specific protection standards for workplace safety. An ATEX atmosphere can form anywhere: inside machines or tanks, at workstations, in warehouses, etc.

Energy costs are rising sharply. It’s important to manage your company’s energy consumption, especially as winter approaches and temperatures drop. To help you, here are some industry-specific tips you can follow to save electricity in your workshops.

OberA installed an AirBox dedusting system with suction arm for source capture of mercaptoethanol in a company involved in the pharmaceutical industry and drug design.

Discover our FAQ section, where we list the questions most frequently asked by our customers. Find out more about the different extraction techniques available from OberA. If you haven’t found the answer to your question, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

Do you know absolutely everything about dust? Find out what sizes and classes of dust exist, what the health and environmental hazards of dust in the workplace are, and how to measure and treat it to comply with the various laws governing dust levels in industrial environments.

A dust collector extracts airborne dust and smoke, while an industrial vacuum cleaner must extract settled dust particles and larger impurities. To meet these different objectives, the devices primarily utilize volumetric flow and negative pressure in opposing ways. Let’s see what this means.

The explosion in energy costs in France is becoming a problem for many companies. This guide will show you how to balance working conditions in terms of protection against infection with efforts to reduce energy costs.

What is welding smoke? What are the health risks? Are there any regulations or protective measures to be observed when working with welding fumes? And how do welding fume extractors ensure a safe workplace? Find the answers to these questions in our article.

Manual, motorized, or fully automatic, discover in this article the different filter cleaning systems available for OberA industrial extraction systems.

Discover how to optimally choose your industrial air treatment system. You will find a series of equally important questions to help you choose an effective extraction system.

Discover our brand-new OberA boutique available from our website obera.fr. It’s now possible to find all our products and buy or rent directly via our online store. Dust collectors, air purifiers, air fresheners and a host of other products are just a click away!

What is the quantity and nature of the dust produced? How long do you work during the day? How can dust, smoke and shavings be effectively captured? These are the basic questions to ask when choosing a mobile or fixed vacuum system. Find out all the answers to these questions in this article.

As part of a partnership, OberA is equipping the WorldSkills 2022 in Bordeaux with 2 Dustomat 4.24 industrial dust collectors and 4 x 3m suction arms for silica dust treatment during the stone-cutting competition.

Find out about the different types of cyclone pre-separator available and their different functions within an industrial vacuum system.

Would you like to find out more about dry and wet dust collectors? Find out in this article about the advantages and disadvantages of the two separation methods (wet and dry), as well as our various existing solutions.

Are you looking for an effective way to cool your industrial premises? Have you considered installing an adiabatic air cooler? The blown air is cooled by water evaporation. Furthermore, compared to an air conditioner, an air cooler allows you to make real savings. Interested? Here’s how to cool a warehouse with this type of device.

Are you looking for a system to cool a non-warehouse area of your company? An adiabatic air cooler is an economical, high-performance and safe solution. This equipment efficiently ventilates any part of a business premises. Here, OberA explains how this type of cooler works, and how to choose the right one for you.

Would you like to improve conditions for your employees and avoid heat-related problems when unloading sea containers? Read our case study on how we solved this problem with our ecoCLIM adiabatic air coolers.

Do you need to lower the temperature of a warehouse, workshop, factory, or professional premises? Whether it’s for cooling a restaurant, an agricultural building, or a repair workshop, oberA has the economical solution you are looking for. Adiabatic coolers effectively produce a steady cold airflow, between 4ºC and 12ºC cooler than the incoming air.

You want to purify your industrial premises with a highly efficient device. The HEPA-filtered professional air purifier is just what you need. It’s a high-performance piece of equipment with the best filtration capacity on the market today.

Are you looking for a solution to eradicate pollutants from an office, restaurant or other public area? Here, OberA presents a range of industrial air purifiers. Read on to find the professional air purifier for the tertiary sector that’s right for you.

In a very large enclosed space, such as an industrial building, warehouse, or sports hall, the continuous inhalation of dangerous particles poses a constant threat to our health. To properly purify the air, it is therefore essential to choose the correct air purifier model for a large area. Here are some explanations.

Classroom air quality can impact both student concentration and well-being at school. Sometimes the cause of headaches or eye irritation, it has been the subject of a decree, applicable from 2018 in certain establishments.

An air purifier cleans the air in a room by filtering out particles, pollutants, viruses and bacteria. To maintain filtration quality, the air purifier needs maintenance. Replacing the main filter or fine filters is essential. But when should you change your air purifier filter? We’ll help you find out.

Air quality in healthcare establishments is a real challenge. Pharmaceutical laboratories, pharmacies, dental practices, doctors’ surgeries and hospitals are all directly concerned. Chemical, physical and microbiological compounds degrade air quality in these facilities to varying degrees. Let’s take a closer look at this problem and the existing solutions.

There are several differences between an air conditioner and an industrial cooler. An air conditioner uses refrigerant gas and consumes 80% more electricity than a cooler. Operating an air cooler is less expensive than operating an air conditioner. Discover the many differences between an air conditioner and an air cooler in 3 minutes.

Industrial production processes generate dust that pollutes the working environment. Regenerative solutions for industrial dust collectors are designed to treat highly dust-laden air. They improve indoor air quality and eliminate the need to purchase disposable filter media.

What device can effectively remove pollutants, viruses, bacteria and odors from a gym? Opt for mobile air purifiers. But choosing an air purifier for a gym isn’t easy. To help you, here are four suggested air purifiers for your gym.

Industrial dust and solvent extraction also helps protect equipment, machinery and stocks. What’s more, filtration equipment reduces heating and cleaning costs. To help you, Obera explains here what industrial vacuuming is, and in particular dust and solvent extraction.

The industrial world and its manufacturing processes generate dust particles, organic and inorganic vapors and solvents that are harmful to employees. After detailing the risks of exposure for workers, we list below the various solutions used by industry to treat the dust and solvents generated by production activities.

Paints, cleaning products, solvents are present in many chemical products and are classified as hazardous waste. Industrial suction systems can capture these toxic substances to control air quality and guarantee safety.

Industrial extraction offers technical solutions for controlling air quality in workshops, storage areas or exhibition halls. These solutions protect against health risks (CMR dusts) and technical risks (machines, materials and goods).

The use of a hotel air purifier is a bet for the future. The device eliminates pollutants, fine particles, viruses, bacteria and odors. Ensuring your hotel protects guests’ health with air purifiers is a welcome option. Get ahead of the game, invest in a professional air purifier.

The French health safety agency, responsible for assessing health risks, is increasingly warning of the deterioration in air quality. Industrial processes still generate numerous particles that have a negative impact on indoor air quality in industrial premises and factories.

For the start of the 2022 school year, a new sanitary protocol is in force. Ventilation is still one of the most effective ways of combating the spread of the virus. Local authorities opting for a CO2 sensor can now benefit from financial assistance provided by the French government.

Maintaining an air purifier guarantees quality air. A red LED indicates that it’s time to replace the filters. Maintaining an air purifier isn’t complicated – just follow our advice.

To combat Covid-19, the French Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports has recommended the installation of CO2 sensors in schools. Assistance in obtaining these CO2 sensors has been increased, read more in this article.

In our working environments, certain industrial odors can be perceived. These arise when gaseous compounds, notably Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), are released.

OberA has equipped the gym at the Eugénie-les-bains spa with an EcoCLIM 22 adiabatic air cooler. Thanks to our EcoCLIM22 program, temperatures have fallen by more than 5 degrees.

ART MALT BIO is a craft, organic, and local malt house, located in Vernoux en Vivarais (Ardèche). It embodies a brand new ‘from field to glass’ supply chain project. Its management team called upon OBERA to implement measures to reduce dust exposure during barley handling.

The Parisian Lycée Joliot Curie was faced with a covid problem. The school’s students and employees wear masks everywhere except in the refectory when students are having lunch.

Evaporative coolers are the best solution for extreme working conditions and large surfaces where the use of air conditioners is not possible, and where the cooling power required is too high.