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The Importance of CE Compliance

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When you make a purchase, you want to be sure that your money is being well spent. You should be confident that it meets necessary safety standards, that it is of high quality, and that it will do what you expect it to. There are many ways that we here at EXAIR like to prove our products will live up to your expectations, including our 5 Year “Built To Last” Warranty, and our 30-day unconditional guarantee on catalog product, or even with our Efficiency Lab where we will test other products’ performance against ours. Another way that we can show our reliability and dependability is through attaining CE compliance.

You may have wondered what the CE mark really means, and why it is so important. To begin with, CE comes from the French words Conformité Européenne or European conformity. A CE mark indicates conformity with health, safety, and environmental protection standards for products sold within the European Economic Area (EEA). EU Legislation requires this certification for most products that are sold in the EEA. Because of this, it has become an acceptable standard for much of the rest of the world as well, even if it only holds legal weight in Europe. This differs from other standards, like OSHA, where the burden for compliance would normally fall on the end user. With CE, the responsibility for compliance falls solely on the manufacturer. Similar to a UL Listing, if you see the CE mark, you can trust it has been tested and certified to have been made in such a way as to meet the safety & quality benchmarks specified for that type of product. In fact, even though you can obtain a self-certification for CE compliance, EXAIR has chosen to use an independent third party to certify us. We want there to be no doubt that you can trust our products.

So, when you see the small ‘CE’ symbol on our products, you can be confident that they are high quality, and that they conform to the highest standards. In other words, you can trust that your money is being well spent. At EXAIR we have gone to great lengths to be leaders in standards compliance, as indicated by our use of independent third party testing. If you have an application where only the very best will do, then give us a call.

Al Wooffitt
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ROI Calculation

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What’s in it for me? We’ve probably all asked this question at some point or another, especially when trying to justify a big change or expenditure. Is it going to be worth it? What benefit am I going to get out of it?
Here at EXAIR we are confident that there is a lot to gain from using our products. Two of the biggest benefits of our Intelligent Compressed Air Products are a reduction in noise, and a reduction in Compressed Air usage. The latter will often lead to big money savings. Many times the savings our products offer will pay for the product itself! This is where ROI calculations come in. What is my Return on Investment going to be?

So, how do you calculate your ROI? The easy answer is that you don’t have to! You can use our Air Savings Calculator to calculate your savings for you. If you know your current air consumption (in SCFM), the new air consumption (SCFM) and the cost of the product, our calculator will turn that into monetary savings, as well as the calculated payback time in days.

Another option, if you would rather not do the calculations yourself, is that you can send the item in question to our Efficiency Lab. The Efficiency Lab Testing is a free service that we offer to show you the possible savings by switching to one of our products. We will calculate the savings for you and send you the results of our findings.
The final option – my favorite by the way – is that we can do the math right here:

For a simple example of a blowoff application, I’m going to show the ROI of replacing a drilled copper pipe with an EXAIR Super Air Knife. The calculations will be as follows:

Copper Pipe (1/4”): 3x 3/32” diameter drilled holes uses 9.4scfm per hole (28.2scfm total) at 80psig.

3” Super Air Knife: uses 8.7scfm at 80psig

Calculation:

For the yearly consumption, we need to find how many minutes in a year the blowoff will be operated:

For the Copper Pipe, the yearly consumption would be:

For the 3” Super Air Knife, the yearly consumption would be:

The difference between these two:

At this point, if you know your facilities cost to generate 1,000scf, you can use that to calculate how much you would save. For this example, we will use $0.25 to generate 1,000scf, which is used by the U.S. Department of Energy to estimate costs. This gives the following yearly savings:

With an investment of $273.00 (at the time of publishing), you can calculate the time it would take to pay off the unit:

From these numbers you can see that after only 117 days the 3” Super Air Knife will have paid for itself. After that, it is all money being put towards your bottom line.

If you have any questions or want more information on EXAIR’s Air Knifes or how our products could save you money, then give us a call. We have a team of application engineers ready to answer your questions and recommend a solution for your applications.

Al Wooffitt
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EXAIR Videos: Where to get them, and how they help

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They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and when it comes to explaining how our products work, a video may be worth even more. EXAIR has an extensive video library ranging from quick product overviews, to in-depth, step-by-step guides on how to perform maintenance. If there is an application you’re working through, we likely have a video on it!

I find myself using these videos on a daily basis to help explain or demonstrate a particular aspect of an EXAIR product to a customer. It is an invaluable resource for me in my day to day life, and the best part is it is free and available for you 24/7.

You will find many of our videos under the ‘Resources’ tab at the top of our website www.EXAIR.com. From here you can select a product category. If you need to know how to change the shim in a Super Air Knife, or how to increase the conveyance of a Line Vac, you will find all these videos and many more organized here.

Videos on our Industrial Housekeeping products are particularly useful, as preventive maintenance is an important part of keeping them operating like new. Our video on “How to Troubleshoot Leaks with the Chip Trapper Vac” walks you through all the necessary steps to find and fix any leaks, as well as providing part numbers if replacement parts may be needed.

Another great resource is our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@exaircorporation. As well as product overviews and demonstrations, you will also find non-product related videos, like “How to Use EXAIR’s Cabinet Cooler® System Calculator”, or “Six Steps: How to Optimize Your Compressed Air System”.

We also include video demonstrations in our blogs. If there is a topic you are interested in, you can search our blog. We may well have a video there as well!

Ultimately, we want to make it as simple and easy as possible to use and maintain our products. If you would like to discuss your application, feel free to contact us. 

Al Wooffitt
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