Switch on your smartphone, connect to the extraction hood via Bluetooth and hear your personal playlist while you work: KEMPERbeats ensures employee motivation and health protection at the same time. KEMPER has developed an extraction hood that sets new standards in welding fume extraction for the individual design of your personal workplace. It not only makes it … [Read more...]

Air quality in the entire production area is becoming ever more important. General ventilation systems play an increasingly important role in effective occupational health and safety. They are always only a supplement to source extraction. Nevertheless, nine reasons show why the purchase of a workshop ventilation system is worthwhile for metal processing … [Read more...]

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has recently updated its classifications for welding fumes and UV radiation that results from welding to Group 1 carcinogens. This means there is enough evidence to show welding fumes and UV radiation that results from welding operations cause cancer in humans. Since 1989, the IARC classified UV radiation … [Read more...]

Anyone who operates in the welding industry knows how important good ventilation is. The very nature of welding results in polluted air filled with fumes, gases, and welding dust that can cause all kinds of health problems both long- and short-term. Kemper America specializes in filtration units that meet every possible operational need in the welding industry, … [Read more...]

Welding dust, fumes, gases, and other pollutants generated during the welding process can have a serious effect on the health of those working in a welding environment. These range from nausea and dizziness, and eye, nose, and throat irritations, to severe lung and respiratory problems, cancer, and even death. This is why it is vital for every welding workshop to have … [Read more...]

The Kemper America Filter Table is an affordable combination of working table and welding smoke extraction filter unit. The large work surface allows for effective welding and grinding with low to medium levels of smoke and dust. A durable steel housing with anti corrosive powder coat finish, and industrial heavy duty stands make this unit suitable for even the … [Read more...]

The Max-Planck-Institute for Chemistry estimates that 3.3 million people die every year worldwide, due to the effects of fine dust. By 2050, this number may rise to up to 6.6 million. The world health organization classes fine dust as a direct cause of lung cancer. Another study published by in Environmental Health Perspectives, looked closely at air quality in the … [Read more...]

Welding smoke is definitely carcinogenic according to international researchers. This puts it into the same risk category as cigarette smoking and several radioactive substances like plutonium and components of deadly chromium IV. Up until now, welding smoke has only been classified as “possibly” carcinogenic. Increasing Risks of Welding Smoke We’ve known for … [Read more...]