We engineer, design, and build heat and air systems to solve your unique application problems. Our technical know how comes from over 40 years of building individualized solutions for our customers. We are your application problem solvers.
Customer Highlight: Eska Water
A change in bottle construction at Eska Water, a brand of Eaux Vives Water Inc., necessitated the cold filling of bottles before labelling; however, the condensation that formed as a result of the cold filling process was causing adhesion problems with the labels. Multiple bottle sizes were run on one line at high speeds and needed to be completely dry – any water droplets left on the bottles would show when the clear labels were applied. This added complexity to the challenge presented to STANMECH and meant that a carefully engineered and tested solution was necessary.
Dry your entire bottle including neck before coding, labelling, & secondary packaging
- Remove water from under caps and crowns
- Eliminate water spots and cap rust
- Effective with paper, PS, and sleeve labels
- No waiting for bottles to drip dry
- Eliminate compressed air costs for drying
- Fast capital payback and ROI
- Increase line speeds and bottle throughput
- Eliminate loose labels
- Improve InkJet coding legibility
- For bottles, cans, jugs, gable tops, and all other containers
Customer Highlight: Microbrasserie Dieu Du Ciel!
Water left on beer bottles after washing was causing label problems for Microbrasserie Dieu Du Ciel! Problems with label adhesion--including labels slipping off and bubbles and wrinkles appearing after drying—were unacceptable for this growing microbrewery based in Saint-Jerome, QC. STANMECH designed a system from the ground up to solve this common bottler's problem. Two air knives fed by two STI regenerative blowers strip the water off the bottles as they move along a conveyor from the washer to the labeler allowing the glue to do its work unimpeded.
"The air knife system really upgrades the labelers performance" -Normand at Microbrasserie Dieu Du Ciel! in Saint-Jerome QC
"The air knife system really upgrades the labelers performance" -Normand at Microbrasserie Dieu Du Ciel! in Saint-Jerome QC
Recent Articles & Case Studies
Optimizing Blow-off Systems for Manufacturers
Air knives are used in many industries to remove unwanted materials from processes. This can range from blowing water off of bottles in a bottling facility to removing cooling fluid in a metal rolling plant to removing crumbs from a bakery conveyor system. While the use of air knives for blow-off is widespread, so are the errors in setup that cause ineffective or inefficient operation. In this article we will review some of the fundamentals of implementing an effective blow-off system.
Compressed Air versus Blower Systems
If your business uses compressed air to clean, dry, or cool, your air system may not be as efficient as you think – in fact, the worst offenders are less than 10% efficient. For many applications, it is advantageous to convert to a blower based air system which leads to long term cost savings.
Heat or Air: Which is the best way to get stuff dry?
At STANMECH Technologies we get many requests for drying solutions. Often the customer immediately asks for a heat solution for drying. This is understandable, using heat to dry is a common occurrence in our everyday lives from clothes driers to hair driers. In this article we will explore why hot air is not always the best drying solution and talk about using fast moving air as an alternative to heat. We will also give guidelines that help to decide when to use heat and when to only use air.
Regenerative versus Centrifugal Blowers: What are they and when do I use what?
Both regenerative and centrifugal blowers are widely used in industrial processes. Superficially the two types of blowers can seem similar and it can be difficult to find good information on the differences between the two types and blowers and why one would be selected over the other.
Flow, Velocity, and Pressure
What are they and how are they different?
One issue that seems to cause universal confusion when designing a blower based system is understanding the difference between flow, pressure, and velocity and knowing when each is important. This article investigates this topic with a focus on how they relate to each other in applications with industrial blowers.
Air knives are used in many industries to remove unwanted materials from processes. This can range from blowing water off of bottles in a bottling facility to removing cooling fluid in a metal rolling plant to removing crumbs from a bakery conveyor system. While the use of air knives for blow-off is widespread, so are the errors in setup that cause ineffective or inefficient operation. In this article we will review some of the fundamentals of implementing an effective blow-off system.
Compressed Air versus Blower Systems
If your business uses compressed air to clean, dry, or cool, your air system may not be as efficient as you think – in fact, the worst offenders are less than 10% efficient. For many applications, it is advantageous to convert to a blower based air system which leads to long term cost savings.
Heat or Air: Which is the best way to get stuff dry?
At STANMECH Technologies we get many requests for drying solutions. Often the customer immediately asks for a heat solution for drying. This is understandable, using heat to dry is a common occurrence in our everyday lives from clothes driers to hair driers. In this article we will explore why hot air is not always the best drying solution and talk about using fast moving air as an alternative to heat. We will also give guidelines that help to decide when to use heat and when to only use air.
Regenerative versus Centrifugal Blowers: What are they and when do I use what?
Both regenerative and centrifugal blowers are widely used in industrial processes. Superficially the two types of blowers can seem similar and it can be difficult to find good information on the differences between the two types and blowers and why one would be selected over the other.
Flow, Velocity, and Pressure
What are they and how are they different?
One issue that seems to cause universal confusion when designing a blower based system is understanding the difference between flow, pressure, and velocity and knowing when each is important. This article investigates this topic with a focus on how they relate to each other in applications with industrial blowers.
What we do at STANMECHAt STANMECH we are committed to building the right solution for your unique application. We've built solutions for countless problems over our more than 40 years in business. Our unique technical know-how in heat and air behaviour is our greatest asset. We use experiments, thermal calculations, and computational modelling to design a solution that we know will work. Let us build the solution to your problem. We are your application problem solvers.
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How we do itWe start by talking with you to define the problem at hand. Then, we physically simulate your process or use thermal and fluid calculations to better understand how your products will react to heat and moving air. For more complex problems, we utilize computational modelling to help us test design concepts. We select equipment and create custom systems based on the needs of your individual problem.
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