Reducing Compressed Air Use to Improve Efficency

Recently Hume Masterpanel, a manufacturer of moulded door skins, timber mouldings and door components in QLD, reached out to one of our QLD Engineers in Evan Harvey to solve a complex issue in regards to removing liquids sprayed on to their metal components. 

After a few months of the new system in place, Hume Masterpanel were kind enough to send through the following testimonial.

Hume Masterpanel is a leader in the manufacture of moulded door skins, timber mouldings and door components.

Many of the metal components are produced on roll forming machines. These machines use soluble oil as a lubricant and coolant for the rolling process. The coolant needs to be removed from the metal profile before it exits the roll former to avoid mess, contamination of following processes and unsafe working conditions if the coolant spills onto the floor.

Hume Masterpanel were using a number of compressed air nozzles mounted on the roll former to remove the soluble oil from the profiles. The problem with these nozzles was that they used too much of the factory’s compressed air capacity and this large volume of compressed air was costing too much to produce.

The solution was a Spraying Systems blower system with custom cannon manifold to replace the compressed air nozzles.

The Spraying Systems sales engineer, was able to provide us not just with a solution but also the calculations to show the amount of compressed air we could save and the payback period for the investment in the system.

The system works well and has significantly reduced our compressed air usage. We would recommend it to other manufacturers looking to reduce their air usage and save money in the process.

Murray Sugden
Factory Manager

The key to solutions like this is having an engineering expert visit the site and provide the proper analysis to tailor the result to the specific needs at hand. Speak to one of our sales engineers in your area to make sure we can fit the right nozzles for you.