How much does industry utilize compressed air, and why?
The US Department of Energy (US DOE) conservatively estimates that more than 85% of US manufacturing, mining, processing, and industrial facilities of all types are dependent on the use of compressed air as an essential and mission critical part of their daily operational processes. Verified by many government and industry organizations, such as the US DOE and the British Compressed Air Society in the UK (BCAS), this huge dependency by all industries on compressed air systems is also true throughout the rest of the world at approximately the same 85% level. Compressed air is used for the overwhelming majority of industrial tasks because of its cleanliness, compact size and efficiency in physically driving hand tools and machines, and its relative safety compared to electricity and gas.
