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April 6, 2026 marks a major regulatory turning point for benzene in France. Since that date, the occupational exposure limit value (OELV) for benzene has been significantly tightened by Decree No. 2024-307 of April 4, 2024, which transposes Directive (EU) 2022/431. This measure directly affects all industrial sectors exposed.
According to WHO data, France records nearly 50,000 deaths per year linked to air pollution, which is 10 times more than road accidents! Furthermore, it is estimated that the indoor air of a dwelling or professional premises is 5 to 10 times more polluted than that of the outdoor environment.
According to data from the World Health Organization (WHO), nearly 50,000 deaths occur annually in France due to air pollution, which is 10 times more than the number of road accidents! Furthermore, it is estimated that the indoor air of a home or business premises is 5-10 times more polluted than the air in the outdoor environment.
Stone-cutting is a noble profession, steeped in history and know-how. But behind the beauty of the gesture lies an often underestimated health risk: silicosis, an irreversible lung disease caused by the inhalation of silica dust.
That’s what my trainer told me on the first day. Ten years later, it’s become my mantra. Being a stonemason in 2025 is still a matter of passion. But today, it’s also a matter of caution.
For several years now, the public authorities have been tightening the rules governing exposure to crystalline silica dust, particularly in the building and stonemasonry trades.
Underground parking lots are well-known urban hot spots: poorly ventilated, highly mineralized and enclosed.
In the demanding world of stone-cutting, the beauty of the gesture is often accompanied by an invisible but very real risk: fine dust.
Recently, we had the opportunity to diagnose a critical situation at one of our customers, where rubber dust represented a serious safety hazard. This article presents the problems we identified and the effective solution we implemented.
In stone-cutting workshops, dust is part of the décor. But what seemed harmless yesterday is now recognized as a major health hazard.
Traditionally associated with manual professions sometimes considered austere, tailoring and sewing workshops have long held an image stuck in the past: dust, dim light, long hours of repetitive work. But this image is changing.
When the installation of an industrial dust extraction system is mentioned, a common concern often arises: “What if it slows down, or even halts, our production?”
With summer just around the corner, we were called in urgently by an industrial customer. His 100 m² compressor room became an oven as soon as outside temperatures rose above 30°C.
Stone trades are among the noblest and most demanding in the artisanal and industrial world. Masons, engravers, marble workers, sculptors, and quarry operators all possess valuable expertise… often under challenging conditions.
In the construction, stone, and industrial trades, fine dust is ubiquitous. Although wearing a protective mask has become common practice in many companies, it alone is not enough to guarantee complete protection.
Cut flowers, symbols of beauty and affection, hide a worrying reality for the professionals who handle them on a daily basis.
As part of its technological development and the optimization of its manufacturing processes, the LAUAK Group, a major player in the aeronautics industry, recently called on our services for the acquisition of a mobile ePURBox ATEX TSP extraction unit.
In industrial laundries, controlled air treatment is essential to guarantee the quality of the linen processed, whether flat linen, professional garments or hospital linen, while ensuring a healthy working environment for operators and improved energy efficiency.
The aerospace industry sets extremely high standards in terms of quality, safety and reliability. In this context, PR sealants are commonly used to ensure the sealing, mechanical strength and corrosion protection of numerous assemblies.
The metallurgy sector encompasses a wide range of activities, ranging from steelmaking to workshop welding operations. It is characterized by extreme temperatures, generated by melting processes as well as by metal processing operations. These challenging thermal conditions, inherent to the metallurgical industry, are further exacerbated in summer, particularly during heatwaves.
Heat waves and rising temperatures are increasingly affecting working environments, especially those already exposed to heat sources. Although French law does not set a precise threshold for maximum temperatures in the workplace, standards and recommendations do exist to provide a framework for thermal safety and prevent the dangers associated with excessive heat.
Optimize the thermal comfort of your building, workshop or warehouse while controlling your energy consumption by installing an industrial air cooler. This cooling solution, designed to cool large volumes, uses the principle of water evaporation to lower ambient temperature without the use of refrigerants.
Industrial sobriety, combined with rising energy prices, is forcing companies to rethink their approaches, particularly when it comes to thermal management of industrial buildings.
With rising temperatures and evolving cooling needs in industrial and commercial spaces, air coolers are emerging as an increasingly popular solution. These units offer efficient cooling for a space while limiting energy consumption. But what about their actual effectiveness?
Although air conditioning remains a popular solution in many businesses, more and more professionals are becoming aware of its limitations and are turning to more efficient alternatives, such as evaporative air coolers.
Methyl ethyl ketone (MEK), or butanone, is an organic solvent widely used in industry. It belongs to the ketone family and is characterized by its volatility and high dissolving power.
At OberA, our commitment to excellence in stone-cutting and marble-masonry equipment continues to grow. In January 2025, we had the privilege of taking part in the “WORLDSKILLS Grand-Est” regional finals in Metz, a key event in showcasing the talents and know-how of French craftsmen.
At OberA, our ambition is to become the benchmark for stone-cutting equipment. To achieve this, we provide professionals with innovative, high-performance solutions that meet the challenges of the sector. With this in mind, we were honored to take part in the WorldSkills 2024 world finals, an international event that highlights the excellence of trades and the know-how of craftsmen from all over the world.
Over the past five years, OberA has established itself as a key player in WorldSkills in France. To find out more, we spoke to Sacha Wehrli, sales manager and leader of the Taille de Pierre project at OberA.
In an emergency situation caused by a fire, we were called upon and faced with a major challenge: to guarantee continuity of production while ensuring optimum safety for operators and equipment.
Here’s how we tackled the problem and came up with a sustainable, innovative solution.
In the food industry, the management of volatile dust is a critical issue. Whether it’s spices, salt or sugar, these fine particles can quickly accumulate and cause a number of inconveniences: cross-contamination, health risks, and complex equipment cleaning.
At OberA, we pride ourselves on providing innovative, high-performance solutions to ensure healthy, optimized working environments. We had the pleasure of working with the Compagnons du Devoir, stone-cutting specialists in Baillargues, who use our dust collectors and air purifiers.
OberA air purifiers are dedicated to air quality in establishments such as nurseries, kindergartens, schools, colleges and high schools. To protect the health of children and staff, filtration systems are configured to filter out dust, viruses, bacteria, pollen, chemical particles and external pollution.
As a catering professional, you’re used to meeting strict hygiene and safety standards. The same applies to air quality in restaurants, which impacts both kitchen teams and customers in the dining room. This is all the more essential since the global pandemic, which has particularly affected restaurateurs.
Are you looking for a solution to protect the health of your open-space staff and improve their comfort? As a specialist in indoor air quality, OberA purifiers combine high filtration performance with ease of installation. OberA offers several ranges of air purifiers to meet the varied needs of businesses: surface areas to be treated ranging from 60 to over 1,000m2, HEPA filters, elimination of up to 99.995% of the smallest particles.
More than ever, air quality in the workplace and in establishments open to the public is a major issue. The installation of office air purifiers is a particularly simple and effective solution. Improving air quality, employee health and well-being, combating viruses and bacteria…
Woodworking generates numerous dust particles (wood chips, fine particles) as well as VOCs (volatile organic compounds), which present health risks for operators. Added to this are olfactory nuisances depending on the type of wood and the operations carried out, such as sawing, sanding, assembly and the industrial drying process.
Indoor air quality is essential to provide a healthy working environment for your teams and patients. Whether in the medical, industrial or service sectors, all businesses can opt for a medical-grade air purifier. By making this choice, you can limit the risks of contamination or exposure to chemical pollutants, and much more besides.
The aeronautics sector is subject to particularly strict standards and regulations on dust and air quality (ISO 14644 standard, for example). To guarantee safe working conditions for our teams, we strongly recommend the use of industrial vacuum systems such as the suction table.
In joinery, sanding operations generate numerous pollutants that pose a health risk to operators: wood dust, formaldehyde, isocyanates, as well as solvents and heavy metals.
Versatile, OberA suction tables are dedicated to industrial processes such as part machining. As a major piece of equipment helping to protect operators and improve the quality of the working environment, we can help you choose the model best suited to your needs and constraints.
As a screen printing specialist, you know that material handling, ink composition and the printing process generate pollutants in the workshop. To keep your teams safe, there’s one solution: the screen printing vacuum table for professionals.
Are you looking for a vacuum table for your welding workstations? OberA offers several ranges of vacuum tables for professionals, offering high performance with different filtration systems, for a safe workspace.
The vacuum table is an essential piece of equipment for considerably improving air quality in the woodworking industry. And with good reason: woodworking simultaneously generates a number of pollutants that impact on operators’ health.
In industry, a vacuum table is essential to protect your employees from grinding operations. Vacuuming and treatment of dust, fumes, debris and volatile organic compounds (VOCs)
In the face of rising global temperatures and the challenges posed by global warming, traditional cooling methods – often energy-hungry and unsustainable – are no longer sufficient to meet the growing needs of business and industry. In this context, indirect adiabatic cooling is positioned as an innovative, energy-efficient solution, capable of reconciling employee comfort, energy savings and respect for the environment.
The reversible adiabatic transformation is an idealized thermodynamic process that plays a central role in the analysis of energy systems. Excluding any heat transfer with the outside world, this transformation is governed solely by the laws of thermodynamics and the equations of state.
The industrial adiabatic cooler is an efficient solution to the cooling and air-conditioning needs of industrial premises. Its operation is based on a simple principle: the evaporation of water.
The adiabatic system plays an important role in industry, particularly in the complex field of technical thermodynamics. It is characterized by processes in which the system modifies its internal energy without exchanging heat with the environment.
Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) and dust are key pollutants in many industrial sectors, with environmental implications and health risks.