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Festool is expanding its range of lighting solutions with two new cordless products designed to help tradies work faster, safer, and achieve the best quality results every time.
The SYSLITE KAL C is a compact, versatile light that you’ll always want at your side. It illuminates areas brightly and evenly with daylight-replicating color. Its swiveling lamp head makes it perfect for narrow and difficult-to-access places, ensuring no rework and perfect results the first time.
Its bigger sibling, the SYSLITE KBS C cordless construction light, provides optimum illumination for floors, walls, and ceilings, enabling perfect work results for medium surfaces. With 5000 lumens and dimmable brightness, it shines in daylight-replicating color and can be positioned in various ways with its swiveling housing. This ensures no downtime, less repairs, and a dust-free environment.
Both lights embody Festool’s mission to solve problems for tradies with tools that help you
Introducing the Festool ExoActive, a groundbreaking innovation set to revolutionise the construction industry. This battery-powered Exoskeleton is designed to alleviate the physical strain of overhead tasks, providing significant support and enhancing productivity. With its user-friendly design, the ExoActive ExoSkeleton promises to make demanding jobs more manageable and enjoyable. As part of Festool’s commitment to advancing technology and improving user experience, this Exoskeleton is poised to become an essential tool for tradies everywhere.
Timo Bayer, an application engineer at Festool, sheds light on the intricate process behind the development of their cutting-edge products. Festool's approach revolves around collaboration with customers, involving an international group of test customers from the early stages, sometimes years before launch.
Clean Air, Clean Workspace: Choosing the Right Dust Extractor for Maximum Efficiency on the Job Site
For tradespeople and DIY enthusiasts alike, cleanliness, efficiency, and safety are top of mind. A lot of dust is generated in workshops and job sites where carpentry, construction, and remodelling take place. Dust extractors are essential tools for these reasons to ensure an efficient, clean, and safe worksite.
Any successful woodworking project relies on precision and attention to detail; this is why tradespeople and DIY enthusiasts are always looking for tools, accessories, and methods to improve their work and speed up the process. One handy accessory is a table saw jig or sled.
Trade environments rely heavily on maintaining productivity. No matter the project, there’s bound to be something to clean up; typically, it’s dust.
Let’s explore the versatility of dust extractors in various trade applications and in ensuring a cleaner, healthier, more efficient workplace.
For DIYers and professional tradespeople, dust extractors are indispensable. These handy machines will keep your workplace clean and safe by eliminating dust and debris at the source.
Tradespeople in the construction and woodworking industries work with dust-producing power tools such as sanders and saws daily. Dust and debris don’t only collect in your workspace and your power tools but is also inhaled – posing a massive health risk.
Workshops and construction sites often have issues with dust and debris. Unfortunately, this dust and debris can be inhaled, posing a health risk to tradespeople.