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The Magazine for ENERGY EFFICIENCY in Compressed Air, Pneumatics, Blower and Vacuum Systems
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20 Formaldehyde Monitoring in the Poultry Industry24 Special Engineering at Parkers Finite Airtek
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38 Meat Packager Retrofits a Compressor with a VFD and Master Controls
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8 Industry News
42 Resources for Energy Engineers Technology Picks
47 Advertiser Index
49 The Marketplace Jobs and Technology
14 Sullair Celebrates 50 Years of Air Compressor Excellence By Neal Lorenzi, Contributing Editor
20 Formaldehyde Monitoring in the Poultry Industry By Nancy Aulisa, ENMET
24 Special Engineering Meets Speed at Parkers Finite Airtek Filtration Division By Rod Smith, Compressed Air Best Practices Magazine
30 Quality Compressed Air Services is True to its Name By Neal Lorenzi, Contributing Editor
36 Meat Packager Retrofits a Compressor with a VFD and Master Controls By Tim Dugan, Compression Engineering Corporation
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Congratulations go to Sullair Compressors as they celebrate their 50th
Anniversary in 2015! We enjoyed the opportunity to visit with President Scott
Nelson and his team in the modern Chicago offices housing their Commercial
Business Unit. Joining the company was an opportunity for me to help
strengthen the Sullair brand even further, Nelson says. The brands reputation
for reliability and durability is second to none. In fact, our research continues
to bring back the term bulletproof when describing our air-end durability.
Monitoring ambient air quality in poultry farms is important to protect employee health.
Formaldehyde is widely used by the poultry industry as a disinfectant on poultry farms, in
brooder houses, hatcheries and hatchery vehicles, writes ENMETs Nancy Aulisa in her article
titled Formaldehyde Monitoring in the Poultry Industry. One of the key elements in protecting
workers from dangerous levels of formaldehyde in any industry is having the proper monitoring
and detection system.
A company making significant investments in their U.S. operations is Parker Hannifins
Finite Airtek Filtration Division headquartered in Lancaster (Buffalo). I enjoyed touring their
130,000 square foot facility focused on compressed air treatment products. Ted Silva and Allan
Hoerner allowed me to look under the hood and I was truly impressed by the multi-million
dollar investments being made to embrace custom-engineered dryer manufacturing, product
performance testing and inventory to support next-day shipments of standard products. It was
truly a see it to believe it experience and I hope my article does the visit justice.
Quality Compressed Air Services, led by President Michael McCulley, was founded in 2003 in
Jackson, Mississippi. The company has now branched out to three locations including one in
Louisiana. We hope you enjoy our profile of this compressed air distributor. We are first and
foremost a service company, says Craig Counts, service manager. Instead of working on one
or two brands of equipment, we work on all brands.
A meat packaging plant was experiencing typical production flow of 2200 to 2700 acfm.
Weekend air flow was 1400 cfm and an audit estimated a leak load of 800 acfm. A review
of the system revealed this could be a good variable frequency drive compressor application.
The question became should they buy a new VFD compressor or do a VFD retrofit? Tim Dugan,
President of Compression Engineering Corp., provides us with an interesting article on how
this question was evaluated.
Thank you for investing your time and efforts into Compressed Air Best Practices.
ROD SMITH Editor tel: 412-980-9901 rod@airbestpractices.com
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Kaeser Breaks Ground on New Building Expansion
Kaeser Compressors has broken ground on a
new building expansion to their headquarters
in Fredericksburg, Virginia.
Representatives from building contractor
Emerald Construction, architect McKinney
& Co., the Office of Economic Development
and Tourism for Spotsylvania County, former
Company President Reiner Mueller, and Kaeser
employees attended the event.
As Kaeser grows, our commitment to providing
superior customer service and delivering
exceptional products will not change. Neither
will our ties to the Spotsylvania community.
These are all facets of what has helped make
Kaeser successful, said Kaeser's Company
President Frank Mueller. The additional
square footage we are adding will give us more
opportunities to continue being who we are.
The expansion will add approximately 50,000
square feet, accommodate more inventory,
and facilitate improvements to the companys
growing packaging and shipping operations.
For more information, visit www.kaesernews.
com/Groundbreaking. To be connected with
your representative for additional information,
please call (877) 417-3527.
About Kaeser
Kaeser is a leader in reliable, energy efficient
compressed air equipment and system design.
We offer a complete line of superior quality
industrial air compressors as well as dryers,
filters, SmartPipe, master controls, and other
system accessories. Kaeser also offers blowers,
vacuum pumps, and portable diesel screw
compressors. Our national service network
provides installation, rental
