Drying Aluminum cans with Air Knives
A company that manufactures aluminum cans contacted us with regards to a problem they were having during the packaging process. After manufacturing, the cans need to be cleaned and washed prior to shipment to their customers who then use them to package fruit and vegetables. Due to the cans not being dried properly they were seeing a lot of stress corrosion and this was causing the cans to leak. Also the cardboard used for packaging the calls was weakened by the left over water from the cans.
By installing two 12″ Regular Aluminum Air knife on each side of the conveyor and an additional 36″ Regular Aluminum Air Knife along the top, they were successful in stripping the water from the cans being transported down the conveyor. Using our low cost affordable air knives our customer was able to:
- Reduce customer returns (cans don’t contain corrosion)
- Increase customer satisfaction
- Increase productivity
- Increase drying speeds
If you would like more information regarding STREAMTEK Air Knives see following page and see what option may be best for you. You can also get in contact with one of our Application Engineers if you have any questions by calling us toll free +1-888-218-6548 (Outside of USA/Canada +1-705-770-4455).
Jay Patterson
Application Engineer
jay@stream-tek.com
