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Prevention of noise pollution in an industrial site and nearby

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Published: 22 January 2018

An industrial site involves machines and facilities that contribute not only to the production of capital goods or energy, but also to the production of noise.

In some industries, an observable trend (among others) is the deployment of capacities with power per unit significantly increased, which is often accompanied by higher noise emissions.

Indeed, in many cases, the sound emission is an increasing function of the power (e.g. mechanical or electrical) of an equipment or a facility.

Thus...

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Anechoic chamber - ITS

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Published: 29 December 2017

When a high-tech company considers a testing facility for its R & D activities in acoustics, contact is made with ITS to find out what can be offered in terms of design and construction of a test room, among the range of technologies, namely relating to industrial soundproofing, offered by the company based near Lyon (France), being often the very best of them.

This was recently the case for a world-renowned electro-acoustic company for a project in which, in a very wide range of...

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Industrial acoustic insulation

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Published: 14 November 2017

In a corrugated cardboard production plant, a single-facer corrugator is a source of noise for workers such as line drivers and other operators and technicians involved in various sub-assemblies (e.g. reel stand & splicer, bridge, preheater, gluer, cutter, slitter scorer), in particular for monitoring the manufacturing process and for maintenance.

If they are in the same workshop, they are often exposed to noise levels above the limit triggering the action i.e. 80 dB (A), in France, within...

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