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Over 2,000 customers across several hundred different processes. Tesla’s chassis line at Giga Berlin now runs unmanned, £1.2m a year cheaper. Filter by industry below – and if your process isn’t here, tell us what it is and we’ll find the closest match.
Tesla had 24 employees across a 24-hour period cleaning its body/framework with compressed air, because the product was dirty after production and showed imperfections. SolvAir solved…
AB InBev is the world’s largest brewer, with production lines running at 37,000 to 50,000 bottles an hour. Moisture under the metal crown caps of its…
DAREGAL is a leading international culinary herb producer, and it needed to dry bottles and bulk bags on one production line. Separate lines would have meant…
Saica Pack UK produces cardboard cartons for the fast moving consumer goods sector, and waste material building up inside its BOBST machine was forcing frequent interruptions…
Audi Brussels dried its car shells before the final coating with an energy-intensive compressed air system that was potentially compromising production quality. SolvAir replaced it with…
Standard Profil relied on compressed air for the drying process on each of its five production lines, with every line consuming 3417 litres/minute and driving up…
Pets Choice Ltd, based in Blackburn, dried its pet food trays with compressed air that was ineffective and energy-intensive, holding back plans to increase production speeds…
Scientific Games manufactures scratch cards, and at its conveyor belt transitions cards were becoming trapped and torn, resulting in entire batch rejections. SolvAir solved the issue…
Ultrasonic Sciences Ltd inspects aluminium billets up to 3.8 metres wide and 18 metres long with an NDT scanner after they leave an ultrasonic cleaning bath.…
Arconic produces aluminium plate at its Birmingham plant, where the quench zone suffered noise above 100dBA, power consumption of 130kW and substandard drying that left operators…
EMR recycles material on a conveyor line, where an under-performing 5.5kW blower was leaving its Air Knife short of pressure and flow. The resulting clogging and…
Prysmian USA makes cable at its facility in Scottsville, Texas, where drying with compressed air meant high energy consumption and operational costs. SolvAir replaced it with…
Aquapak, a polymer producer in Birmingham, was drying its extruded strands by wiping, which risked recontamination, and cooling them with energy-intensive compressed air that could introduce…
At Mallows Bottling, employees had to dry each bottle by hand after filling and before labelling, causing substantial delays. SolvAir solved the issue by automating the…
A leading Indian wire manufacturer struggled with cleaning solution adhering to the wire during its extrusion process. Its makeshift compressed air system was wasting expensive cleaning…
Technical Devices makes Nu/Clean Inline Aqueous Cleaners for the PCB industry. A series of blower failures threatened a crucial client relationship in China, and Paxton’s engineers…
An American medical device manufacturer relied on manual compressed air wands to dry PCBs and perforated polycarbonate components, a labour-intensive process with ergonomic risks for its…
Central Wire Industries (CWI) cleans wire products in dip tanks of water and acid, where rinse water was diluting the acid baths and ineffective air systems…
Thai Union is a fish processor whose high-volume operations handle 36,000 cans an hour. Residual water on the cans was compromising inkjet coding quality and hygiene,…
Lervig Brewery in Norway needed its beer bottles thoroughly cleaned inside before filling, and its existing methods were inefficient and costly. SolvAir solved the issue with…
SuperBock’s brewery in Porto, Portugal, bottles beer in 33cl glass bottles on a line with a capacity of 60,000 an hour. Residual moisture around the crown…
Just Water bottles spring water in Bodmin, on a line running at 6,000 to 8,400 bottles an hour. Labels were not adhering properly to its PET…
Watershed Packaging in Leeds needed energy drink cans dried after steam sleeving, because wiping each one by hand was slowing production and jeopardising a crucial client…
Nissan’s vehicle shells entered the paint line carrying airborne particles from the assembly area, and the dust left imperfections in the final paint finish. SolvAir solved…
Decoma UK, part of the Magna Group, makes plastic automotive parts in Liverpool, where inefficient drying in its paint preparation area was causing unacceptable paint job…
Koni B.V., a leading manufacturer of vehicle shock absorbers, was dissatisfied with low-pressure fans and circular nozzles that were ineffective in completely removing rinse water from…
Aisin Europe Manufacturing (UK) Ltd makes steel car door profiles at its Birmingham site. Coolant oil left on the profiles after production was causing quality control…
SolvAir were approached by Rail Operators on the East Coast of England looking for an Air Knife System solution that would work with a washing system to improve the quality and reliability of their trains across four seasons of weather. The Operators wanted in particular to minimise disruption when temperatures dropped below freezing, as for example this could result in door seals freezing.
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A 60-second overview of how a SolvAir Air Knife System works: high-velocity air streams shear water and debris from any shape of product, using far less energy than compressed air.
How Air Knife Systems dry objects after washing and water processes, across food and beverage, electronics, manufacturing, heavy…
FDA-compliant 304 stainless steel Air Knives for soda cans and drinks packaging, removing 99%+ of moisture and debris…
Ionised air removes water and static charge from bottles, cans and jars, giving a clean, dry, neutral surface…
How Air Knives and blowers actually work, what they’re used for, and what they cost to run. If you’re costing a line, start with the compressed air comparison – that’s where the energy figures sit.
Air Blowers are typically 7–9 times cheaper to run than compressed air. See where the saving comes from and what it looks like on your own line.
Air Blowers and compressed air machines both create high-speed air streams for…
Air Knives are often the most efficient and effective method of removing…
Air Knives are highly effective tools, used in manufacturing, for a wide…
An industrial Air Knife is a pressurized air plenum chamber with a…
Air Blowers are devices designed to take in air at an inlet,…
What customers ask most often about Air Knives, blowers and complete drying systems. The full set, with more detail on each, is on our FAQ page.
Yes! We supply Air Knives, Blowers and Air Knife Drying Systems to any country globally.
An industrial Air Knife is a tool designed to eject a high-intensity, uniform air flow that cleans, dries and/or protects a wide range of objects.
Air Knives use a pressurised chamber and slots to create a high-velocity laminar air flow that regulates moisture and/or debris on the surface of objects.
Air Knives have a wide range of industrial uses, including removing, spreading or controlling liquids, drying, cooling, cleaning and bonding.
An Air Knife System includes a high-performance centrifugal blower, connecting pipes and air devices such as Air Knives/Manifold/Nozzles.
