Health, safety and environment
HSE: Brazing equipment designed to protect line operators and improve your industrial performance
Our custom-built brazing equipment integrates, from the design stage, practical solutions aimed at improving ergonomics, reducing exposure to fumes and hot spots, and minimising the environmental impact of your operations.
Configurable to meet each project’s specific requirements and compliant with European directives, our equipment helps make brazing operations safer whilst reducing hidden costs associated with, for example, musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs), absenteeism, quality non-conformances and production downtime.
Here are some examples of the solutions we offer:
Ergonomics and work height adjustment
A brazing workstation that is not suited to operators’ physical build quickly leads to postural strain, muscle fatigue and musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs). These issues degrade operational quality, increase the risk of errors and generate significant indirect costs.
Our machines incorporate motorised height adjustment, allowing the working position to be precisely adapted to each operator and to the different stages of the process. This optimised ergonomic design promotes gesture repeatability, improves concentration and significantly reduces the risk of MSDs. The result is greater production stability, reduced downtime and absenteeism, and improved operator retention and workstation attractiveness.
Integrated fume extraction, positioned as close as possible to the brazing operation
During brazing operations, strippers (or fluxes) and gaseous emissions contain harmful substances that can affect the health of operational staff and degrade working conditions. The absence of extraction, or an inadequately designed system, leads to pollutants dispersing throughout the production environment.
Our solutions incorporate either global extraction or source-capture extraction positioned as close as possible to the brazing zone, directly integrated into the tooling. Close-source capture is the most effective approach, enabling efficient extraction at the point of emission, significantly reducing operator exposure and workshop contamination. This helps lower the incidence of occupational illnesses linked to the inhalation of these harmful and potentially carcinogenic substances. The result is a healthier working environment, improved HSE compliance, and reduced costs associated with overall air treatment and production area cleaning.
Targeted cooling of sensitive components
The cooling of parts during brazing operations is often carried out either by water spraying or by the “wet cloth” technique, generating significant resource consumption, effluents requiring treatment, and risks of thermal shock or premature corrosion. Plus, the water vapour produced can pose a hazard to operating personnel and causes moisture to spread throughout the working environment.
Our brazing jigs incorporates dry cooling solutions targeted directly at the part, allowing the temperature drop to be controlled without the use of water. This solution protects components that are considered “sensitive” for aesthetic or functional reasons, whilst also improving the metallurgical stability of assemblies, limiting distortion and reducing the environmental impact of the process. For your operations, this means lower resource consumption, simplified peripheral installations and improved product quality.
Heating technologies designed for health, safety and the environment
At MT Brazing, we integrate the best heating solutions from the design stage to protect your operators and reduce the environmental impact of your processes.
With regard to flame brazing, our partners offer oxy-hydrogen flame solutions generated by the electrolysis of water. No more storing and transporting gas cylinders, and with that, no more associated risks of explosion, leakage or fire. The benefits for operators are tangible: a significant reduction in carbon monoxide emissions, no harmful UV radiation to the eyes, and a noticeably lower noise level than conventional flame.
When it comes to our induction solutions, they heat the part precisely where required, with accurate temperature control and electrical consumption proportional to actual need. The result: zero gaseous emissions at the workstation, a direct improvement in ambient air quality, and a healthier working environment for your teams on a day-to-day basis.
