How important is the use of compressed air throughout global industry today?
Compressed air has been an essential utility resource for virtually every industrial, manufacturing, mining, assembly and processing facility in the world for over 80 years. Commonly referred to as the fourth utility, compressed air is the only one of the four major industrial utilities (electricity, water, gas, and compressed air) that end users must produce and manage themselves. With very few exceptions, companies generate compressed air by using electrically powered air compressors and related equipment which individually and collectively consume vast amounts of electrical energy in a very inefficient manner. Simply stated, generating this essential industrial compressed air is highly inefficient and under-managed, both as a production resource and from a financial perspective. Compressed air represents a substantial cost component of any manufacturing process. Compressed air continues to be an essential and mission critical part of virtually all industries, having an equally direc
