INDUSTRIES SERVED
CECO Environmental understands that every industry faces unique air pollution control challenges. We provide custom-engineered solutions designed to meet the specific regulatory requirements and process conditions of your sector, from particulate matter and combustible dust to VOC and HAP destruction, acid gas scrubbing and corrosive mist elimination. Discover how CECO Environmental and our industrial air solutions support diverse industries worldwide with proven, patented air pollution control technologies.
Automotive and Metal Finishing
Automotive production and metal finishing operations generate high solvent loads and VOC emissions from coating and finishing operations, fume and particulate from foundry processes, corrosive mist from metalworking fluids and fugitive dust from abrasive operations. CECO industrial air control technologies deliver targeted solutions at every stage of the production environment.
Asphalt Manufacturing
Asphalt manufacturing and asphalt shingle production generate process emissions tightly controlled by regulatory agencies. Emissions from heating and processing operations include particulate matter, VOCs and condensable mist requiring specialized control technologies. Fiber bed mist eliminators recover and re-use particulates from the heating process, reducing environmental emissions and increasing process efficiency. Regenerative thermal oxidizers provide VOC and HAP abatement from process exhaust streams.
Battery Manufacturing and Recycling
Battery production and battery recycling generate VOC emissions from electrode coating processes, fine particulate from electrode materials and acid gases and heavy metals from thermal recycling operations. The global expansion of lithium-ion battery production brings significant solvent emission challenges requiring reliable continuous VOC abatement across multiple coating lines. CECO industrial air control technologies deliver air pollution control systems addressing VOCs, HAPs and particulate across the full battery manufacturing and recycling lifecycle.
Building Materials
Building materials manufacturing generates high volumes of coarse and fine particulate from crushing, grinding, calcining and material handling operations. Kiln and calciner operations in cement, lime and gypsum production demand dust collection systems designed for elevated-temperature continuous service. CECO industrial air control technologies deliver cyclone and baghouse systems engineered for the high-temperature high-volume dust loads and chemical emission requirements of building materials production.
Chemicals Processing
Chemical manufacturing generates complex multi-pollutant exhaust streams containing VOCs, HAPs, acid gases, corrosive mists and hazardous particulate, often simultaneously, from multiple process units. Regulatory requirements include NESHAP and MACT standards mandating the highest available destruction efficiencies. CECO industrial air control technologies offer VOC and HAP thermal destruction, acid gas scrubbing, corrosive mist elimination and hazardous dust collection across the full chemical processing environment.
Downstream Oil and Gas
Downstream oil and gas operations, including oil refineries, petroleum product distributors, petrochemical plants and natural gas processors generate VOCs, HAPs, acid gases and particulate matter from refining and processing operations. These facilities require air pollution control systems that maintain reliability through continuous high-temperature operations. CECO industrial air control technologies deliver thermal oxidation, scrubbing, cyclone and particulate control solutions engineered for the demanding conditions of downstream refining and petrochemical processing.
Fertilizer Production
Fertilizer manufacturing generates acid gas emissions including ammonia and nitrogen oxides from synthesis and granulation processes, particulate matter from prilling and granulation operations and corrosive mist from acid-based production processes. Multi-stage wet scrubber systems achieve high-efficiency removal of ammonia, nitric acid and NOx from fertilizer production exhaust streams. CECO industrial air control technologies deliver scrubbing, particulate control and mist elimination solutions matched to the specific emission profile of each fertilizer production process.
Food and Beverage Production
Food and beverage manufacturers generate VOC and odor emissions from cooking, roasting, rendering and fermentation operations along with combustible dust from flour, grain, sugar and starch handling. Commercial bakeries release ethanol and other VOCs from yeast fermentation during baking that are regulated by air quality management districts. Spray drying operations generate fine particulate and process exhaust requiring simultaneous dust collection and emission control.
Furniture Manufacturing
Furniture manufacturing operations generate combustible wood dust from sawing, sanding and routing, VOC emissions from solvent-based coatings, stains and adhesives and fine particulate from finishing processes. Wood dust is both a serious respiratory hazard and a classified combustible dust requiring filtration systems designed to NFPA 68 standards. CECO industrial air control technologies deliver cartridge dust collectors, thermal oxidizers and activated carbon systems matched to the wood dust and solvent emission profile of furniture production.
Metal MANUFACTURING – (Iron/Steel/Aluminum)
Iron, steel and aluminum manufacturing facilities generate fume and particulate emissions from rolling mills and foundry processes, high solvent loads and VOC emissions from coating and finishing operations, corrosive mist from metalworking fluids and fugitive dust from high-temperature and abrasive operations. CECO Environmental delivers targeted air pollution control solutions at every stage of metals production and processing.
Metal Plating and Finishing
Metal plating, anodizing and surface finishing operations generate acid fume emissions from plating baths and surface treatment tanks, fine metallic particulate from abrasive finishing and corrosive mist from metalworking fluid systems. Packed bed and ionizing wet scrubbers provide high-efficiency removal of acid fume and corrosive gases from plating line exhaust. CECO industrial air control technologies deliver scrubbing, mist elimination and corrosion-resistant ducting systems engineered for the chemically aggressive environments of metal plating and finishing operations.
Metal Recycling and Shredding
Metal recycling and auto shredding operations generate complex VOC and HAP emissions from shredder exhaust streams containing oils, solvents and combustible materials, fine metallic dust from shredding and processing and fugitive particulate from material handling. Alloy regenerative thermal oxidizers are the established technology for auto recycling and mega-shredder VOC and HAP destruction from the complex halogenated and acid-laden exhaust streams these operations generate. CECO industrial air control technologies deliver thermal abatement and particulate control systems for metal recycling facilities.
Mining and Quarry
Mining and quarrying operations generate high volumes of coarse and fine particulate from ore extraction, drilling, blasting, crushing and material conveying. Operations from ore extraction through smelting and carbon reactivation present combined particulate control and chemical emission requirements including silica dust and toxic mineral compounds requiring high-efficiency capture for worker health protection. CECO industrial air control technologies deliver cyclone, baghouse and scrubber systems engineered for the high-volume abrasive particulate conditions of mining and quarrying operations.
Pharma and Biotech
Pharmaceutical and biotechnology production generates high solvent loads and HAP emissions from active pharmaceutical ingredient synthesis and tablet coating operations, fine hazardous particulate from spray drying and powder handling and halogenated VOC streams from solvent-based processes requiring acid gas scrubbing downstream of thermal destruction. CECO industrial air control technologies deliver alloy and halogen-tolerant thermal oxidizers, packed bed wet scrubbers, fiber bed mist eliminators and pulse jet dust collectors meeting NESHAP and MACT standards for pharmaceutical source categories.
Printing
Gravure and flexographic printing presses generate large volumes of continuous VOC-laden exhaust from solvent-based inks and coatings subject to MACT standards for the printing and publishing source category. Many printing facilities reach autothermal RTO operating conditions during production runs where solvent load sustains combustion temperature without supplemental fuel input. CECO industrial air control technologies deliver regenerative thermal oxidizers, VOC concentrators and recuperative thermal oxidizers matched to the continuous high-volume solvent emission profile of printing operations.
Plastics and Rubber
Plastics manufacturing, rubber processing and composites production generate VOCs from resins and plasticizers, combustible dust from plastic powders and process fumes from extrusion and molding operations. Adhesive formulation and application add solvent emissions requiring simultaneous VOC abatement, HAP control and combustible dust management across the production environment. CECO Environmental delivers targeted air pollution control solutions at every stage of production.
Municipal and Industrial Wastewater Treatment
Municipal and industrial wastewater treatment facilities generate odorous emissions from biological treatment processes, H2S and reduced sulfur compounds from anaerobic operations and exhaust containing particulate matter, acid gases and VOCs from sludge incineration and thermal drying. CECO industrial air control technologies provide biofiltration systems, bioscrubbers, aerators and degasifiers for biological odor and H2S control and proven technologies for the multi-pollutant treatment requirements of sludge incineration operations.
Semiconductor and Electronics
Semiconductor fabrication, electronics manufacturing and microelectronics processing operate under some of the most stringent environmental compliance standards in manufacturing. These facilities demand air pollution control systems that perform with precision, reliability and zero unplanned downtime. Process exhaust streams contain VOCs, HAPs, acid gases and fine particulate requiring targeted solutions across every emission source.
Wood, Pulp and Paper
Wood manufacturing, woodworking, pulp mills and paper production share air quality challenges centered on combustible wood dust, VOC emissions from coatings and adhesives and process odors. Wood dust is both a serious respiratory hazard and a classified combustible dust. CECO Environmental delivers advanced air pollution control systems addressing VOCs, HAPs and particulate while supporting the production process.
More Than Equipment. Engineered for Industrial Air Excellence.
As the world’s most complete end-to-end industrial air quality platform, CECO Environmental spans every stage of the industrial air treatment process, from the point of generation through final compliance. We listen and solve, innovate and support, across every major global market, so nothing stands in the way of your operations.
