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Food

A Kroger Company Bakery Saves Energy
Recently, The Kroger Company’s Indianapolis bakery identified the use of compressed air in a
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Plastics

PET Bottle Blowing Efficiency
The PET industry is in a state of flux right now. A number of new bottle blowing facilities are
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Paper

A View From Canada. Tembec Sawmill and Pneu-Logic Stabilize Pressure
Pneumatic air cylinders play a major role in allowing a modern sawmill to produce at the high-speed
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Printing

Sanity Check: Will the Stand-By Air Compressors Start-Up During Cold Weather?
Several days prior to our visit, during a cold winter evening, the lead air compressor in one
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Pharmaceutical

Air Quality in the Pharmaceutical Industry
The United States accounts for roughly half of the global pharmaceutical market. This certainly
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Auto

Energy Management at Visteon
There are three main segments in Visteon's climate group are climate systems, powertrain cooling
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Bulk

A View From India: Pneumatic Conveying of Bulk Materials
In thermal power stations, nuclear plants, and chemical and industrial plants, different types of
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Transit

Xcel Energy and Northwest Airlines Partner to Save Energy
How do you test a 747 engine to ensure reliability once it’s airborne at 600 miles an hour?
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Metals

Compressed Air at the Lowest Energy Cost; Energy Management at Ball Corporation
Compressed Air Best Practices interviewed Doug Barndt (Manager, Demand Side Energy-Sustainability
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Medical

Profile: BeaconMedaes
In the U.S. as an example, the NFPA has taken the view that if your compressor draws in good clean
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Power

Instrument Air in Nuclear Power Plants
Nuclear power plants produce electricity for people, business and industry.  Electricity is
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Oil & Gas

Vapor Recovery Units Manage Greenhouse Gases
Compressed Air Best Practices® interviewed Mr. Sid Van der Meer and Mr. Terry Nickel from
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Wastewater

Aerzen Delta Hybrid Blower - Designed for Wastewater Treatment Plant Load Profiles.
The concept offers new possibilities for generating positive pressure or vacuum in a variety of
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Measuring Energy Savings at Verallia
By Rod Smith, Compressed Air Best Practices® Magazine
Compressed Air Best Practices interviewed Gregory Rhames, Asset Reliability Manager/Energy Manager at Verallia. As background, Verallia is the packaging division of Saint-Gobain. Verallia employs 15,500 people globally and makes about 25 billion glass bottles and jars each year. We employ 350 people at Madera where we produce about 1 million wine, champagne and sake bottles per day.
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Bottler Best Practices in California
By Creg Fenwick and Kyle Harris, Accurate Air Engineering
Bottling companies and breweries, in California, are benefiting from a three-step system assessment process aimed at reducing the electrical consumption of their compressed air systems. The three-step process reduces compressed air demand in bottling lines by focusing on open blowing and idle equipment, and then improves the specic power (reducing the energy consumption) of the air compressors.
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Festo Optimizes Compressed Air Consumption at Volkswagen
By Sachin Kambli, Product Manager, Festo Corporation
Many passenger cars on roads in Germany contain efficiency concepts that make a considerable contribution to lowering emissions. Automotive manufacturers such as VW have gone even further than this, by applying efficiency strategies in their own value added chain. Because the benefits of pneumatics in automotive industry production processes have seen pneumatic actuation win over other drive technologies, efficient use of compressed air plays a key role in increasing energy efficiency.
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