Compressed air users are becoming increasingly intolerant of contamination in their systems, whether it's in a patient’s lungs, food and beverage products, pharmaceuticals, or semiconductors, eliminating the risk of contaminated end product, and saving money in energy use and maintenance, are only a few of the benefits.
When choosing an air compressor, the first questions to ask are, “What are you planning on doing? Are you setting up a bead-blast cabinet? How often are you going to use it?”
Nestlé’s Ice Cream factory in Tulare, California was able to get a payback period of just over three years on an oil-free air compressor with a heat recovery system.