About us

Our story at Micronair

Humble beginnings

Micronair was formed to service the woodworking industry and help provide a safe working environment for employees. From there it has grown to service multiple industries from government, manufacturing, education and so much more. Micronair now provides a range of solutions to air quality and extraction challenges.

Exceeding standards

With today’s major health concerns over inhalable toxins, it is critical that manufacturers address these issues created with traditional bag collectors that provide only 95% efficiency. Micronair aims for a minimum of 98% and up to 99.9% efficiency by incorporating our advanced filter cleaning methods, and only using high efficiency filter media of minimum E12 standard.

Continuous improvement

Micronair has adopted a continuous improvement process throughout the company, especially in the area of research and development of better filtration products. Micronair’s research and development program has produced products that are advanced beyond the industry standards.

A family business

Micronair was founded by Don Brereton in 1990 to provide dust and fume extraction systems to the woodworking industry. Since then, the family-run business has expanded its expertise across government, manufacturing, education and many other sectors. Today, Micronair designs and delivers practical extraction solutions for customers throughout Australia, providing custom systems for projects of varying size and complexity.

Australian designed

Micronair systems are designed and specified in Victoria to meet Australian workplace and performance requirements.

Locally available parts

We maintain access to commonly required spare parts and provide nationwide service support to help minimise downtime.

High-efficiency filtration

Protecting workers is a key purpose of extraction systems. Many standard filter bags have an average efficiency of around 95%, allowing fine dust to return to the air. Micronair targets filtration efficiency of 98% to 99.9% using high-efficiency media to provide better protection.

High-quality components

Micronair selects robust, high-quality components to suit Australian industrial conditions and long-term operation. Systems are specified with corrosion-resistant finishes and materials where appropriate.

Senior Management Team

Over 60 years of combined experience

Don Brereton

CEO

Founder and CEO at Micronair, Don started the company and still runs it today with the support of his team.

Trent Brereton

Design & Development Manager

Trent leads the development at Micronair and ensuring continuous improvement and working with the evolving Australian standards.

The future with Micronair

Micronair have time and again proven the ability to handle the particular and complex requirements that large customers have, from documentation to compliance, and emission verification with high performance criteria. Micronair’s design, engineering and experience proves invaluable when dealing with dust and fumes that have difficult characteristics such as sticky, oily, heavy chip, light flaking material, sharp, hydroscopic, acidic, super fine, this list and experience goes on. Our research has allowed us to develop highly efficient units with a low footprint to enhance the installation options while reducing duct lines and wasted costs.