AGET
Who We Are, and What We Make
Aget Manufacturing Company began in 1938 in Adrian, Michigan three years before America became involved in World War II. Our founder, Dr. E.F. Buskirk developed the first DUSTKOP dust collector to remove dust created by the grinding and finishing operations in small dental laboratories engaged in the manufacturing of dentures. The DUSTKOP was well received by the dental industry, and Aget soon branched out into many other industries, where dust collection was a serious problem, offering many specialized dust collection units for a wide variety of industrial processes. Today we manufacture a wide array of dust removal equipment, numbering well over 200 standard models, ranging from 1/3 HP to 60 HP units. Our complete line includes cyclone separators, self-contained unit collectors, after-filters, filter collectors, baghouses, mist collectors and exhausters, all marketed under our well-known, registered trade names of DUSTKOP, FILTERKOP, and MISTKOP.

The basic DUSTKOP is a cyclone type dust collector, which pulls contaminated air into the unit at high velocity, creating a vortex or cyclone action. Centrifugal forces separate the dry particles from the air stream, and they drop via gravity into a drum or hopper. Clean air can then be recirculated back into the plant, or vented to the outdoors. The DUSTKOP is also offered in a
2-stage system which includes an after-filter unit attached to the cyclone separator for removal of sub-micron particles as small as 0.3 microns.

Our MISTKOP unit was developed to remove liquid mists from the air in machining and grinding operations, and is effective in reclaiming cutting oils and synthetic coolants used in these processes. Collection of the coolant mists in this manner removes potential health and safety hazards from the shop area, and the MISTKOP has proven more economical and cost-efficient than electronic systems or rotating drum equipment used for this purpose. As a result, they are used and preferred by many machine shops and metalcutting facilities throughout the U.S. and Canada.

Aget markets its products through a network of experienced manufacturers' representatives in the United States, Canada and Mexico for a wide variety of dust collection applications. Typical example are woodworking, metalworking, powdered chemicals, pharmaceuticals, food and agricultural processing, among many others. DUSTKOP products are also used for many OEM applications, and are installed in many vocational training centers and school work shops.
Photo from the mid-1940s shows an early model Dustkop cyclone collector being demonstrated by James Roberts, then general manager of Aget Manufacturing Company
Present day 2-stage Dustkop unit being prepared for shipment in the Aget factory. It is designed for outdoor installation at the customer's plant.
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