Product category:
Industrial Drives/Controls
News Release from: Control Techniques
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 30 January 2001
Big energy savings for large compressor
users
UK companies with large compressor sets are in a unique position to offset the effects of the Climate Change Levy, following the establishment of a unique drives partnership
UK companies with large compressor sets are in a unique position to offset the effects of the Climate Change Levy, following the establishment of a unique drives partnership between Control Techniques, the UK's leading manufacturer of variable speed drives and systems, and EnergAir Solutions, a specialist in delivering intelligent compressed air control The new partnership has been established to enable UK companies to benefit from the considerable energy savings that can be accrued by optimising the output of banks of compressors to eliminate expensive off-load running
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 19 Mar 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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"A number of drive manufacturers, ourselves included, have strategies in place for helping users of pumps and fans to reduce their energy consumption under the Climate Change Levy," says Jonathan Green, Marketing Communications Manager for Control Techniques.
"In the area of compressors, however, where the potential savings are equally substantial, no other company is providing a service like the one that we are introducing with EnergAir." Although a relatively new company, EnergAir Solutions is staffed and run by personnel with many years experience of compressed air generation.
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"Along with fans and pumps, compressors are one of the major equipment areas included on the governments list as qualifying for tax relief under the enhanced capital allowance scheme (ECA).
"The most likely reason for this is the lack of management control on many multiple compressed air installations, which can result in running costs 30% higher than they should be.
We are offering companies with these types of installations a golden opportunity to put their house in order, in terms of reduced energy consumption, and combat the cost implications of the CCL.
"We feel that our partnership has a head start with Control Techniques' reputation in the market and the technical back-up, engineering and after care support that can be provided from its UK Drive Centres.
What we bring to the partnership is the ability to take this reputation into new areas using Control Techniques' unique multi-function Unidrive, in conjunction with our own Enercon energy management system.
"The scope for what we are offering the market is already apparent.
We have barely started yet the level of interest is intense at all levels. Request free introductory details about products from Control Techniques ...
Many of the companies we are currently talking to are household names, not only in the UK but all over the world.".
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