ATHEX Industrial Suppliers was accepted as a member of the Industrial Cleaning Foundation (SIR), in collaboration with Newson Gale, in order to share knowledge about static grounding in hazardous areas. For this, we maintain relationships mainly with members within the discipline ”pressure-vacuum cleaning”, because this topic is very important during these operations.

The aim of the Stichting Industriële Reiniging [Industrial Cleaning Foundation] (SIR) is to promote and regulate safe working in industrial cleaning situations. The SIR combines and protects that interest in the Netherlands and - since 2003 - in Belgium as well.

Newson Gale developed some pioneering solutions that can increase safety during chemical cleaning operations. Pressure-vacuum trucks (un)loading flammable products through hoses, generates extremely high static charges which may accumulate to dangerous levels, if the static grounding is not functioning properly. This causes a huge risk of fire and explosions.

HazardEx Product Innovation Award 2012

Permanently mounted ground control systems can offer solutions for controlling the static grounding to discharge safely any static electricity.
However, in many cases operators need to do activities like loading/unloading without the presence of fixed mounted systems. In this case, the operators rely on their own equipment, mounted on the truck, which can be connected to the earth. There is very much uncertainty about the current state of the equipment, as well as about the grounding point to which a connection is made.

The Earth-Rite MGV verifies the integrity of the static earth, and checks whether the truck is connected to the earth according to international guidelines like IEC60079-32-1, NFPA77,...

Using the OhmGuard, hoses can be checked on their good continuity to the ground. This can be monitored at the start of each operation.

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The static earthing systems range includes:

Visual status indication		Visual status indication + interlock
Self testing static earthing clamps. For applications where control switches or PLCs are not available for output contacts, the Bond-Rite range is the best solution for maximising the safety of processes generating static in hazardous areas.		Static Earth Monitoring & Interlock Systems Wherever there is a real danger of conductive plant equipment and materials accumulating static charge within flammable and combustible atmospheres the Earth-Rite Static Earth Monitoring & Interlock Systems provide added operational safety for critical hazardous area processing and handling operations.
Bond-Rite	Bond-Rite REMOTE	Earth-Rite RTR	Earth-Rite PLUS
Bond-Rite REMOTE EP	Bond-Rite EZ	Earth-Rite FIBC	Earth-Rite MULTIPOINT
OhmGuard		Earth-Rite MGV	Earth-Rite OMEGA

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ATHEX Industrial Suppliers is authorized by Newson Gale as one of their channel partners, based on our expertise and specialization in static earthing. The mission of Newson Gale is offering technical top-quality products, and giving a good global service. This we achieve through a unique partnership with a worldwide network of channel partners. In this network, ATHEX Industrial Suppliers is your contact for the Benelux (Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg).

Static grounding clamps, cables, reels and test material

Self-checking clamps with visual indication and control

Indication, control and relay control system