Powered Air & Supplied Air Respirators
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Providing clean breathing air is essential when working in areas where hazardous contaminants are present. 3M offers an extensive and flexible range of industrial powered and supplied air respirators, developed especially for the toughest environments.
These respiratory protective systems offer comfortable, integrated protection against multiple hazards providing respiratory, head, face, eye and hearing protection. Their ease-of-use can improve productivity in the workplace.
View our guide to the Powered & Supplied Air Respirator Range.
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Powered vs Supplied Air System. Which Systems?
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A Powered Air Respirator is a system that uses a fan to deliver filtered air into a variety of headtops and helmets. It allows high mobility.
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3M™ Supplied Air Respirators are designed to deliver clean air to the worker. The air can be supplied from a high pressure compressor. 3M offers several products that can connect to a supplied air system including hoods, helmets, full facepieces, half facepieces and loose-fitting facepieces. It allows limited mobility.
Powered Air Respirators
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Keeps weight close to the user's back, reducing the leverage effect that can cause some Powered Air Respirators to feel heavier. Belt-mounted units are ergonomically designed to sit at the base of the user’s back and carry the weight mostly on the user’s hips via the padded comfort belt.
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Face-mounted Powered Air Respirator provide increased airflow and wearer comfort that may help improve productivity. The product is ideally designed for abatement and remediation work.
Product Families
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3M™ Versaflo™ TR-800 IS Powered Air Respirator is approved to Zone 0 requirements and gives the people in your care a high level of respiratory protection and help minimise the risk of fire or explosion.
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The revolutionary TR-600 reaches new heights of performance with a lithium-ion battery, adjustable airflow options, and an expanded range CE approved filters and cartridges to help protect against gas/vapours and particulates. Designed for heavy use and long wear.
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The 3M™ Versaflo™ Powered Respirator System TR-300+ combines performance, protection and functionality with modern, stylish design and comfort. It is the key to easy-to-use, versatile, respiratory protection systems for particulate environments.
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The Jupiter™ Powered Air Respirator is comfortable, easy-to-use and provides protection against particulates, gases or vapours, or against a combination of these contaminants depending on the type of filters used.
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The 3M™ Powerflow™ 7900PF combines the Full-face mask with the 3M™ Powerflow Powered Air Turbo to form a power-assisted system offering respiratory protection against solid and liquid particles.
Supplied Air Respirators
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Balanced regulator specifically designed for respirator use, the V-500E regulator ensures smooth airflow, safety and comfort.
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The V-100E regulator allows users to cool the air by as much as 28°C, making it a good choice for workers exposed to uncomfortably hot temperatures.
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The V-200E regulator allow users to heat the air by as much as 28°C, making it a good choice for workers exposed to uncomfortably cold temperatures.
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The 3M™ Supplied Air Respirator System S-200+ is a comfortable and versatile supplied air respirator system. It can be used as a standard airline respirator system or in dual-mode with filter back-up when air supply is disconnected.
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Aircare™ Filtration Units can be combined with all 3M™ Supplied Air Respirator Systems. The three-stage filtration system supplies highest quality air to the Supplied Air Respirator System and compressed air tools by removing water and oil aerosols, particles and odours from the facility-supplied compressed air.
Headtops
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The headtop is lightweight, compact, and easy to maintain while helping to provide the wearer with protection from a wide range of hazards. M-Series Headtops offer dependable protection and exceptional comfort.
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Designed to profile the wearer's head for a more streamlined appearance and offers a direct comfortable stream of air into the headtop.
Featured Products
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3M™ Versaflo™ Powered Air Turbo TR-600
Thanks to comprehensive research and an in-depth understanding of your needs, we created the most advanced, versatile solution yet. It’s designed to help make breathing and working easier.
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3M™ Versaflo™ IS Powered AirTurbo TR-800
The TR-800 is an Intrinsically Safe (IS) Powered Air Turbo with battery that is ATEX Certified for use in potentially explosive atmospheres whilst offering the comfort, modularity, control and ease of use expected from the 3M Versaflo platform.
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3M™ Versaflo™ respirator systems represent an enormous effort by 3M to accomplish three major goals:
- Simplify the equipment selection process.
- Increase system versatility.
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Some 3M equipment requires regular checks and maintenance to ensure optimum performance and protection for the wearer. In addition to potentially reducing protection levels, poor maintenance can also reduce the effective lifetime of equipment, resulting in the additional cost of replacement.
Find out more how to protect your Powered Air & Supplied Air Respirator
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Choosing the right respiratory protection for your requirements can seem like a daunting task. Make it simpler by using our simple 4 step process and discover the right protection for you and your workers.
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Why 3M Powered and Supplied Air Respirators?
Work in a World of Comfort
3M offers an extensive and flexible range of industrial powered and supplied air respirators developed for a wide range of environments, applications and hazards.
These respiratory protective systems offer comfortable, integrated protection against multiple hazards providing respiratory, head, face, eye and hearing protection. Their ease-of-use can improve productivity in the workplace.
What- Headtop connected to a powered air turbo unit; or
- Headtop connected by a regulator to an external breathable quality compressed air supply
- Often includes other neck-up hazard protection eg eye, head, hearing, neck/shoulder coverage.
Why
Comfort, Compliance and Protection- Refreshing airflow and reduced breathing resistance
- Combined, integrated protection
- Can offer respiratory, head, face, eye, hearing, head/neck/shoulder coverage
- High protection factors
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Modular vs Individual System
Modular Systems
The modular respirator system is a comprehensive approach to worker protection systems based on comfortable-to-wear components.
All modular headtops, air delivery units and breathing tubes are compatible with one another.Users can mix and match parts as they move from one environment to another, or from one application to the next.
It is the ultimate in flexibility for handling changing user environments.
Individual Systems
The individual respirator systems can be used in variety of workplace applications. They include powered air respirators with integrated head, eye, face and respiratory protection and supplied air regulators with half and full face masks.
Powered and Supplied Air Respirators from 3M
3M offers an extensive and flexible range of industrial powered air and supplied air respirators developed for a wide range of environments, applications and hazards.
Both types of systems deliver air to the wearer through a headtop. The headtops are designed to deliver respiratory protection and offer the wearer other protection and features to suit their environment and work. The features incorporated into the headtops solve many of the common pitfalls associated with providing personal protective equipment (PPE) to workers.
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