Today, I’m excited to walk you through some of our latest and greatest spray nozzles from BETE spray technologies: the MW, NF, TF, MP, WL, and their innovative tank washing lineup. These aren’t just nozzles—they’re engineered solutions designed to tackle your toughest industrial challenges. And now these can be bought directly through EXAIR! Let’s dive in!”
If you would like to discuss any of EXAIR and BETE’s line of liquid and liquid air atomizing spray nozzles, I would enjoy hearing from you…give me a call or send me an email!
EXAIR and BETE both offer a wide variety of External Mix Air Atomizing Spray Nozzles. The amount of knowledge that has been obtained by these two companies on compressed air and spray nozzles is tremendous and the level of expertise is second to none in the industry. So how does that help our potential customers and existing client base?
When it comes to spray nozzles, EXAIR has been in the game for over a decade, BETE has been in the game for nearly 75 years. The two have now combined and with our knowledge of how compressed air operates and their historical knowledge of liquid spray nozzles we are able to best serve our customers whether it is defining the spray characteristics of a nozzle, determining if additional testing would be the best path forward to meet the needs of their spray nozzle application. It could even be after we have sprayed the liquid on a part for a rinse or cooling, drying it and providing additional cooling.
The combination of our two teams has been monumental thus far with being able to transition customers from one product line to another if needed. This means if you have a liquid spray application that EXAIR doesn’t have the ideal fit, chances are BETE has something that will work and we can provide that handoff seamlessly to their Application Engineering team. This has also expanded our own Application Engineers level of knowledge with spray nozzles and the characteristics that customers may look for in the liquid spray applications. I’ve talked about this time and time again, we are continually bettering ourselves, our knowledge, and our product offering. This time we expanded it exponentially.
So whether you are trying to wash, coat, or cool with liquid, then make sure you blow the debris / liquid or drying a coating. EXAIR and BETE stands at the ready to help you and your team find the products that are right for you, whether they are BETE or EXAIR.
I am glad to announce that EXAIR, a leader in engineered compressed air solutions and static elimination, and BETE, a renowned engineered spray nozzle and spraying systems manufacturer, has a definitive merger agreement under which EXAIR has acquired BETE. This landmark combination promises to do what both companies have been doing for decades – create something that has never existed before – and to do it with an unprecedented market appeal.
This merger will allow both companies to significantly enhance product offerings and customer engagement. The combined market reach and engineering capacity will drive innovation and product value for a worldwide network of customers, distributors, resellers and OEM’s.
Strategic Benefits of the Merger:
Enhanced Product Lines: The EXAIR/BETE merger enables a diversified portfolio of products by integrating BETE’s pioneering technologies and engineering acumen with EXAIR’s robust manufacturing capabilities. This synergy will address a broader spectrum of market demands, fostering a new era of invention.
Expanded Market Reach: The combined entity will leverage new market access, product lines, direct-to-end-user sales strategies, and long-term relationships with large project customers.
Expanded Market Support: With a strengthened go-to-market strategy, the merger enhances our ability to provide high quality, precision engineered products to all levels of the market, big or small. EXAIR and BETE will be able to bring unparalleled support to large-scope projects, OEM relationships, a worldwide network of distributors and directly to end users.
What This Means for the Market:
The merger of EXAIR and BETE redefines the industry landscape. Customers now have access to a more diversified line of efficient, engineered industrial solutions. This pairing creates new standards for quality, performance and customer satisfaction within industrial manufacturing. Our combined expertise will accelerate technological advancements and the development of next-generation products, thus delivering enhanced value to our customers. When combined with embedded service level standards, no other company is capable of doing what EXAIR and BETE can do together.
Here is a message from the President of each company.
From Kirk Edwards, President of EXAIR: “For our valued customers and partners, this merger means improved service, new products and competitive prices. You will benefit from the combined expertise of two industry giants coming together to deliver comprehensive solutions that meet your needs”
From Tom Fitch, President of BETE: “As we embark on this exciting new chapter, EXAIR and BETE are committed to a seamless integration process, focused on our shared vision of quality, advanced engineering and service. We look forward to bringing together our teams, cultures and communities to build a stronger future. We are, without a doubt, better together”
For more information about EXAIR and BETE, you can view our websites at www.EXAIR.com or www.BETE.com.
As a child of the 1970s, my friends and I played with a LOT of toys that were die-cast. Most of us didn’t know what that meant; we just knew that we had to try REALLY hard to break them. Turns out, the ruggedness of those toys – and their widespread availability to the first crop of Gen-X kids – is directly related to the casting process. Metal casting produces stronger products than welding pieces together, and it’s WAY more cost-effective than machining parts that don’t necessarily need to hold tolerances measured in thousandths of inches.
One of the more popular methods for parts & products like this is called green sand casting. Basically, they add a specific amount of water to the sand so that it’ll hold its shape – that’s why the best sand castles on the beach are made closer to the surf – and make a mold. Then they pour in molten metal, let it cool, remove the cast part, and repeat for as many parts as they need to make. Fun fact: they call it “green sand” because of the moisture content – like “green wood” gets its name because of the sap content – not because of the color (it’s NOT green colored).
Anyway, the mixing process for the sand & water blend is kind of an exact science. Too much water, and the mold won’t hold its shape, and too little will make it brittle. It’s also easier and quicker to mix if the water is sprayed, as opposed to dumping or pouring it in.
The reason I know all this is that I had the pleasure of talking with a caller who runs a specialty casting foundry. They make parts that weigh a couple of ounces, a couple of hundred pounds, and anything in between. They, of course, keep the molds they’ve made for repeat customers, so they’re ready to go when a new order is placed, but they’re also making new molds all the time, and wanted to improve the sand/water mixing process. They didn’t need the extremely fine droplet size of an Air Atomizing Spray Nozzle, nor did they want something whose flow was measured in gallons per hour. They were actually looking for about one gallon per minute from a compact device that could spray a wide round pattern into a rotary drum that looked an awful lot like a small concrete mixer. They chose Model FL1010SS OmniStream Cone Nozzle.
Since 1 gallon per minute is right in the middle of the FL1010SS’ flow performance range, it was the obvious choice for this application.
As the sand in the mixer turns, the conical spray is evenly, and quickly, is soaked into the sand. This reduced the time it took to get a consistent mixture, and eliminated clumps they’d occasionally get when the water was poured in, which they’d have to break up by hand after stopping the mixer, which saved even more time…and operator frustration!
If you need to spray liquid in a consistent, repeatable manner, EXAIR has an enormous range of flow rates & spray patterns. If you’d like to find out more, give me a call.
Russ Bowman, CCASS
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