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As the year begins we’re beginning to field a large number of calls from people and production facilities wanting to increase efficiency and production, and decrease reject parts and lost revenue....
View ArticleSuper Ion Air Knife Set to Eliminate Static in Polystryene Foam Board Extrusion
Perhaps you have seen the blue or pink foam boards used to insulate anything from basement walls to garage doors, to walk-in freezers. The stuff is used everywhere in building trades and for any...
View ArticleEXAIR’s Distributor for Israel is Exhibiting at Plasto-Ispack (Tel-Aviv, Israel)
EXAIR’s official, Israeli distributor, Dip. Ing. M. Gutmark Ltd. will be exhibiting at Plasto-Ispack in Tel-Aviv, Israel. Their booth will be located at Hall 10, Stand #3. The exhibition runs from...
View ArticleEXAIR’s China Distributor to Exhibit at CIIF (China Intl Industry Fair) in...
China International Industry Fair 2012 is going to be held during November 6th through 10th, 2012 at Shanghai New International Expo Centre. Theme Shows will be held concurrently under CIIF 2012. CIIF...
View Article‘Tis the Season
Tis the season for static generation, and the calls are starting to come in. Recently I received a call and a series of emails from an end user in Dubai. The gentleman was (is) the operations manager...
View ArticleIs My Static Eliminator Working?
Winter is settling in on us, slowly but surely, here in Cincinnati. As I write, it’s 39F and overcast outside…not nearly as harsh as it’s going to get, come mid-January. With the dropping temperatures...
View ArticleA “Static Season”-al Affective Disorder Blog
One of the more popular inquiries we get this time of year is for Static Eliminator Product selection assistance. EXAIR offers a variety of Static Eliminators, to accommodate a wide range of...
View ArticleEXAIR Stops Noise Pollution… Not Rock & Roll
If you can’t tell by the title this is the closest reason I could come up with to use one of the greatest rock bands songs in a blog. While Rock ‘N’ Roll isn’t noise pollution, wastes of compressed...
View ArticleKeeping The Lights Clean
I recently spoke with a customer who was having an issue inside of their inspection process. Their inspection uses CCTV cameras to view the parts as the parts pass in front of sixteen fluorescent...
View ArticleSome Good Q & A on Static Eliminators
As we in the Northern Hemisphere are getting ever closer to our summer season, our friends in the Southern Hemisphere are gearing up for winter and the effects that it brings for some production...
View ArticleSuper Ion Air Knife Eliminates Static in Geotextile Manufacturing Process
Geotextiles are any permeable textile material which is used to increase soil stability, provide erosion control or aid in drainage. And there are a large variety of types of geotextile fabric...
View ArticleSuper Ion Air Knife used on Inspection Machine
Normally, when we talk about applications, we like to mention ones that come across relatively recently. However, when I re-visited this client, their application was very straight forward and simple,...
View ArticleDo You Know What Time Of The Year It Is?
Do You Know What Time Of The Year It Is? No not thanksgiving. No not Christmas. It’s static electricity season. As temperatures drop and we heat our buildings we dry out the air. Low humidity air is...
View ArticleThe Boundary Layer and Static Elimination
I recently spoke with one of my colleagues at our Finland distribution partner, Projecta Oy. He had an application for static elimination on a large paper producing machine. He has applied our Ion Bar...
View ArticlePitchers And Catchers Report Today!
Just so you know, I’m not talking about anyone’s favorite Major League Baseball team; I’m talking about my oldest son’s Knothole team, the Titans. He wants to try his hand (or, rather, arm) at pitching...
View ArticleIon Bars Can Be Configured So That The High Voltage Power Cable Can Exit The...
It’s true. EXAIR offers this choice of cable exit on all lengths of Ion Bar. So, if you are trying to make a neat installation where all of the power cables are on one side of your machine, simply...
View ArticleEverybody Wants Options II
Justin Nicholl, I hear you loud and clear about how Everybody Wants Options. I would go so far as to say a lot of people NEED options. This was evident in an application that I had the pleasure of...
View ArticleIon Bars Remove Static, Help Improve Labeling Quality
I worked with a customer recently who was experiencing a static issue when trying to apply a bar coded label to their cardboard box. The boxes travel down a conveyor then passes by a labeler that uses...
View ArticleWinter Cold = Static Issues
Winter is fast approaching us here in Cincinnati, which can mean just about anything, temperature and weather wise. For instance, 2 years ago we had a very mild winter, with warmer than usual...
View ArticleDon’t Let Winter Shock You: One Danger to Quality that You Cannot Forget
Winter is coming. The humidity will drop. Electrostatic discharges will rise. We will all be shocked again, and again – it’s a reality of manufacturing processes in the winter and can cause such a...
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