Esco has recently invested heavily in its fume hood product line.
Benefits of the investment have included the release of the Frontier Acela High Performance Fume Hood series, based on technology licensed from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA.
Esco has also expanded its fume hood research laboratory with the assistance of Tintschl Engineering AG, a specialist consulting firm from Germany.
Additional instrumentation has been bought to enable Esco to perform all portions of the European Standard EN 14175 test in-house.
A key element of the European standard EN 14175, which is not present in the American standard ASHRAE 110, is the robustness test, which simulates airflow disturbance in front of the hood.
The 1.5m/5' Frontier Acela High Performance Fume Hood has already passed the EN 14175 containment and robustness tests, down to a face velocity of 0.3m/s or 60fpm, at the European standard 500mm operating height.
Tests on all other Frontier Acela models are pending and are expected to be completed in the near future.
