At the heart of a commercial vehicle’s air brake system is its air compressor, which pressurizes air in the primary and secondary tanks to provide power for the air brakes and other pneumatic systems.

An efficient, reliable, properly-functioning “plant air” (compressed air) system is critical to most manufacturing plants. Other types of facilities also depend on their compressed air systems. Much ...

Compressed air is critical in many industrial and nonindustrial applications, including powering pneumatic tools and conveyor systems, cleaning equipment and airfilling amusement park objects. While ...

Kaeser Compressors, Fredericksburg, Va., has introduced the updated “Cost Savings with Compressed Air System Maintenance” guide. This resource is designed to help industrial facilities save money by ...

Compressed air is vitally important to all power plants. Although in some cases it is used simply for convenience, such as when operating certain pneumatic tools, in other cases, compressed air is ...

In many fabrication shops, dust collection and fume extraction systems do their job quietly—until they don’t. Because they ...

Getting a valve out of a vehicle isn’t too hard – it’s putting the new one in that requires more care. A typical commercial vehicle air braking system requires, at minimum, around a dozen core ...

Dangote Gboko cement plant in Benue State performance has improved significantly after upgrade of its air compressor. The factory is a subsidiary of Dangote Industries, and Africa’s leading cement ...