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 Heavy equipment is a huge category, covering fixed machinery to machinery on wheels and tracks. OSHA is particularly concerned about the health hazard to operators of heavy machinery, who suffer hearing loss. Insurance companies pay hundreds of millions of dollars annually to people whose hearing has been damaged by operating heavy machinery.
Heavy equipment manufacturers differentiate their products in part by how quietly they operate – both inside the cab, and externally generated noise. The goal is usually to take at least 10 dB of noise out, across a broad frequency band.
Damping noise and vibration has traditionally been costly and risky – until now. Quiet Solution offers the heavy equipment industry a complete line of high-performance products to soundproof machinery, and the associated buildings and vehicles. Using a new generation of viscoelastic polymers, it is now possible to achieve high levels of quiet with a fraction of the bulk, weight and cost of traditional technologies.
The most effective way to mitigate heavy machinery noise and vibration is to coat as much of the equipment as possible with QuietCoat viscoelastic polymer. The other approach is to contain the noise by building soundproof areas.
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