CST Industries, Conversion Technology (CTI) and Fike Corporation Raise Awareness on New Combustible Dust Standards by Co-Hosting Educational Seminar
10/04/19 Kansas City, MO – The world’s largest and leading bolted tanks and aluminum dome manufacturer, CST Industries, partnered with two industry leading explosion protection companies, Fike Corporation and Conversion Technology, Inc., (CTI) to co-host an educational seminar on the ever-growing topic of dust hazards, design approaches and retrofit issues on storage equipment. The event was organized to both raise awareness of the new combustible dust NFPA 652 standards, which mandates full compliance by 2020, and to educate businesses on basic principles of requirements for identifying and managing fire and explosion hazards of combustible dusts.
The seminar was held in Kansas City on Thursday, September 19th and was attended by 55+ business professionals. The participants enthusiastically listened to explanations from speakers, including Conversion Technology, Inc.’s Brian Edwards who presented on Combustible Dust Hazard Analyses and NFPA Standards. In addition, material was also presented by Fike Corporation’s Bruce McClelland and Adam Batz on Combustible Dust Deflagration Mitigation and NFPA Compliance along with Keith McGuire of CST Industries on Dust Hazards for Storage Systems and Design Criteria and NFPA Influence.
As part of the seminar, a group of panelists were available for a Q&A Session to answer specific questions relating to attendee operations. Coach buses were also provided for transportation to Fike’s remote facility to see firsthand explosion demonstrations.
“The new regulations for Combustible Dust, NFPA 652 covers a wide range of types of combustible dust used in many applications across almost all major industrial and agricultural markets. CST’s partnership with Fike and CTI allows us to educate clients via co-hosting free seminars and we feel this is important to both safety and operations of our customers, stated Tom DeDonder, VP of Operations and Services for CST Industries, Inc. CST, CTI and Fike are committed to educate through these free seminars in 2020.”
About CST Industries
CST is the largest dome and bolted storage tank manufacturer in the world. CST’s global network includes manufacturing facilities and technical design centers located in Missouri, Kansas, Illinois, Tennessee, Texas, California and the United Kingdom. Regional sales offices are located throughout North America and in Mexico, Argentina, United Kingdom, Dubai, Singapore and Vietnam. CST Industries maintains its headquarters in Kansas City, MO. International offices are located in Brazil, United Kingdom, India, Singapore, Vietnam and Dubai. Currently, more than 350,000 CST tanks and over 18,000 covers have been installed in 125 countries throughout the world.
About Fike
Fike Corporation is a globally recognized supplier of precision-engineered solutions for fire protection, explosion protection, overpressure protection and pressure activation. Because so much is at stake™, since 1945 their highly skilled workforce has designed and built solutions for Fortune 500 companies and businesses around the world that want peace of mind from experiencing consequences of serious financial loss or a devastating disaster.
About CTI
Conversion Technology Inc., CTI, is an environmental and safety engineering firm with experience helping clients nationwide. In the past thirty plus years, CTI has gained extensive knowledge and experience assisting a wide array of industries in effectively obtaining and maintaining environmental, health, and safety compliance, and in identifying and analyzing hazards such as those associated with combustible dust. CTI is a member of NFPA, assisting with the development of standards for combustible dust, and has decades of experience conducting process and dust hazard analyses.
