Energy-saving dryer aids Santex Group growth
28/09/2010
Manufactured and sold under its Cavitec brand, the company says Santashrink combines the latest software and operating processes and has been designed to benefit from recent new findings in air technology.
A newly engineered air nozzle system, combined with process management technology, can offer user organisations what it calls “the highest possible evaporation capacities in addition to excellent residual shrinkage results”.
The dryer is modular, each chamber being two metres long with working widths varying between 1.8 and 3.4 metres.
The Super Jumbo version works on three levels, each equipped with upper and lower transport belts. Every level features specially conceived nozzles to guarantee the most effective air blow and air speed through each step of the drying process.
The system achieves a balance between the electrical and thermal energy required and output. As a result, the drying capacity on one side and the energy input on the other give high productivity figures and “extremely low drying costs” per kilo of material produced.
Additionally, an energy-recovery system called the EnAirSave is said to produce energy savings of around 35% “compared to other dryers on the market”.
On announcing the company’s growth this year so far, Santex Group chief executive, Antonio Staffoni, commented: “The group will end up with a turnover roughly double that achieved in 2009 and this growth has been driven partly by the flagship Santashrink dryer, which has achieved an increase in sales of 34% this year so far. We are definitely talking about pre-crisis levels, much better not only than 2009 but also than 2008. We have also witnessed strong growth in the sale of open width compactors and on hot-melt coating and laminating machines.”
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