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EXAIR Has 4 Finalists for Product of the Year 2014!

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Voting is now open and we would like your votes!

For 27 years, Plant Engineering magazine readers have chosen  outstanding new products that help them do their jobs smarter, safer, more efficiently and more productively. These products, which are newly released in manufacturing industries,  are recognized with Plant Engineering’s Product of the Year Award. Many products categories are recognized including, Automation and Controls, Compressed Air, Electric Motors and Drives, Environmental Health,  and Fluid Handling among others. Four of the products we released in 2014 have been chosen as finalists in the compressed air category. Voting opens today and goes on through December 31st.

Here are the products up for the 2014 award:

  1. PEEK Pico Super Air Nozzle: This tiny nozzle is our latest PEEK Thermoplastic Super Air Nozzle and manufactured to provide a small, precise blast of air. It is only 0.63″ (16mm) long x 0.20″ (5mm) in diameter with an M5 x 0.5 metric thread. It can also be purchased with a 1/8 MNPT thread. PEEK Thermoplastic material provides excellent chemical resistance and a high temperature rating of 320°F (160°C) with a low co-efficient of friction which results in a non-marring nozzle good for use with sensitive materials. VOTE HERE
  2. PEEK 3/8″ Super Air Nozzle: This High Power PEEK Thermoplastic nozzle can take on the heavy duty blow-off, cleaning or cooling applications in your plant. It has a standard 3/8 FNPT and produces 1.9 pounds of force. PEEK Thermoplastic material provides excellent chemical resistance and a high temperature rating of 320°F (160°C) with a low co-efficient of friction which results in a non-marring nozzle good for use with sensitive materials. VOTE HERE
  3. Long Ionizing Bars: We have added the long length Ion Bars to our product selection. These long Ionizing Bars eliminate static electricity on paper, film and plastics that are up to 108″ (2438mm) wide (our original launch was 96″, but now we make up to 108″).  Long Ion Bars can be added to our Long Super Air Knives for a powerful, far reaching static elimination solution. VOTE HERE
  4. Long Super Air Knives: EXAIR’s selection of the most efficient air knives on the market has expanded with the addition of our one-piece 60″ (1524mm), 72″ (1829mm), 84″ (2134mm), 96″ (2438mm) and 108″ (2743mm) Super Air Knives. These provide seamless laminar airflow and eliminate the need for additional assembly and hardware when coupling shorter length air knives together. The energy efficient design minimizes compressed air use by entraining 40 parts room air to one part compressed air. It is ideal for use on wide parts, webs and conveyors. VOTE HERE

We appreciate all who are willing to vote for our products and are proud to continue bringing you the best products we can offer. Thank you for the support.

Sincerely,
The EXAIR Team
@exair
1-800-903-9247

 

Award Winning Compressed Air Nozzle Saves Hundreds of Dollars Annually

Published on by Dave WoernerLeave a comment

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EXAIR’s 1 Inch Flat Super Air Nozzle won the Gold Award for Compressed Air from Plant Engineering in 2014. We won the award for the immense savings that our customers reap by using this nozzle to replace open blow offs. While saving compressed air, we also reduce noise level and comply with an OSHA regulation 192.242(b).  Do not leave that blow off open. It is costing you everyday in dollars; it may cost you more in OSHA fines later, and it will cost your employees hearing later.

A 1/4″ copper tube can use 33 SCFM at 80 PSIG of inlet pressure. This homemade blow off will use 1,980 standard cubic feet per hour. Typical industrial compressed air cost $0.25 per 1,000 standard cubic feet.  That 1/4 copper tube is costing you $0.50 every hour to run. Each year, one 1/4″ copper tube costs $2,970*.

The 1 inch Flat Super Air Nozzle, model 1126, uses 10.5 SCFM or 22.5 SCFM less than 1/4″ Copper tube.  Saving your company 22.5 SCFM, is the same as saving $0.34 every hour or $2,025 every year.*  Saving 22.5 SCFM also, means that your compressor system doesn’t have to work as hard.  A 5 HP compressor will put out 20 SCFM, so replacing one 1/4″ Copper Tube with a model 1126 will save you from upgrading compressor system as your company expands.

Regardless of the $2,025 you just saved by replacing the homemade blow offs with engineered nozzle, it is also an industry best practice because it can lower the noise exposure for personnel and prevent any harm from dead end pressure.  OSHA standard 29 CFR – 1910.95(a) requires that if an employee is exposed to greater than 100 dBA for 2 hours, he or she needs to wear hearing protection.  A 1/4″ copper tube will easily exceed 100 dBA.  The model 1126 will lower the noise level to 77 decibel, 13 dBA lower than the OSHA requirements for an 8 hour day.

Finally, the 1″ Flat Super Air Nozzle cannot be dead ended, which protects your employees from serious injury. In the event, that a compressed air orifice is blocked with no means of escape, air may enter the bloodstream from an open cut or wound in the skin. Compressed air must be kept below 30 PSIG to eliminate this danger when using an open pipe, tube or many commercial air nozzles. With EXAIR nozzles, pressure to the nozzle  can remain at line pressure and produce the maximum velocity and force for a successful application.

*Assuming 24 hours a day and 250 working days

Dave Woerner
Application Engineer
Davewoerner@EXAIR.com
@EXAIR_DW

EXAIR Receives Plant Engineering Product of the Year Awards

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Every year EXAIR strives to meet our customer needs with new products. On a day to day basis we communicate with customers who voice problems for which we might or might not have a solution. When we can’t help a customer, we see that as an opportunity to grow our business and meet those customers needs. Over the last year we have released over 250 products to fill our customer’s requests. We submitted 4 of those products to Plant Engineering for voting by their readers for Product of the Year.

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The 2013 Product of the Year Awards – One silver and three gold!

All (4) products were recognized by Plant Engineering and their readers this year.

The awards received, the products and the categories were:

Gold Award – 1 Inch Flat Super Air Nozzle – Compressed Air

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Gold Award – Dual 316 Stainless Steel Cabinet Coolers – Electrical Controls

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Gold Award – No Drip External Mix Atomizing Nozzles – Fluid Handling

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Silver Award – Heavy Duty HEPA Vac – Environmental Health

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Over the next month, I will talk about each product and detail their features, benefits and applications. If you need help on any application, feel free to contact us.

Dave Woerner
Application Engineer
Davewoerner@EXAIR.com
@EXAIR_DW

 

It is an Honor to be Nominated…

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This year Plant Engineering has nominated (4) EXAIR products for their Product of the Year award.  Even though all of our products utilize compressed air, we are nominated in several different categories: fluid handling, electric controls, environmental health, and compressed air.  As a company, we stick to designing products that efficiently use compressed air, it’s our breadth of product line which affords us the opportunity to be nominated in numerous categories.

It is an honor to be nominated… winning would be further validation of everyone’s hard work around here.  We know it’s a team effort all around; from receiving in raw materials to machining and assembly to shipping quality product out the door on time. We rely on the talents of our sales and marketing teams and have come to count on our customer service folks to be the best in industry. Our engineers continue to design new products and expand product lines at an impressive speed and the accounting people help keep it all in check. If you are willing, please visit Plant Engineering’s Product of the Year website to view all of the nominees and vote for EXAIR products.  Below is a brief description of our nominated products and links to our website for more information.

We really got our start in designing safe, effective and efficient compressed air blow offs.  We continued that tradition this year by creating a 1″ Flat Super Air Nozzle, model 1126.  This nozzle produces a powerful 1″ wide air stream with 9.8 ounces of force 12″ away from the nozzle.  Because the air flow cannot be blocked, model 1126 meets OSHA standards 29 CFR – 1910.95(a) and 1910.242(b).  It also maintains a quiet 75 dBA, and uses 10.5 SCFM when supplied with an inlet pressure 80 PSIG.  Please vote for this product here.

Did you know that you can cool up to 5,600 Btu/hr with compressed air?  Our Cabinet Cooler Systems utilizes vortex tube technology to create cold air, which can be used to cool electrical panels.  This year we released a dual Cabinet Cooler System made of 316 stainless steel for wash down environments and NEMA 4X enclosures that need more than 2,800 BTU/Hr of cooling that a single cooler can provide.  Please vote for this product here.

In industrial environments, electrical vacuums do not hold up for very long.  EXAIR has been manufacturing industrial vacuums to replace the standard duty and electric vacuums for over a decade, but what do you do if the environment is very dusty with fine particulate? With EXAIR’s Heavy Duty HEPA Vac, we remove the danger of this fine particulate from being ingested or inhaled from the air with a HEPA (High Efficiency Particulate Air) filter that tested to IEST-RP-CC-007 HEPA standards.  The filters have a minimum of 99.97% filtration at the 0.3 micron level. Please vote for this product here.

Finally, we are nominated for a our No Drip Atomizing Spray Nozzle.  These nozzles are available in a variety spray patterns and flow rates.  The no-drip feature allows precise control of the amount of liquid used.  When precisely metering the liquid used in your coating process, the no-dip nozzle keeps up with your intermittent flow without forming a drip or a bubble to mar the uniform spray pattern that you need. Please vote for this product here.

Please take a look at these products and give EXAIR your vote.

Dave Woerner
Application Engineer
davewoerner@exair.com
@EXAIR_DW