Air Dryer Adds Hundreds of Dollars of Production/Week on High-Precision Slitting Machines

At Metlon Corp., a new air dryer paid for itself after only a few months by completely solving a rust problem and giving the company hundred dollars worth of additional production time each week on its high-precision slitting machines. In the past, water in compressed air lines caused valves within the machines to rust and stick. At least three times a week one of the slitting machines was down for an hour while the valves were cleaned or replaced. The new air dryer uses advanced membrane separation technology instead of refrigerants or freon to remove 99.9 percent of the moisture from the compressed air system. It has completely eliminated downtime due to rust. Metlon also installed air filtration technology from the same vendor on a cutting application that formerly required nitrogen to clean the cut pieces. The dryer made it possible to switch to regular compressed air, saving the cost of the nitrogen and paying for itself in eight months.