"New aLITE" - zero CO2 emissions and even lower energy operating costs than with gas convection systems

Fossil-fired convection dryers/ovens have been used in most processing lines for decades. Whether for flexo, gravure, heatset or screen printing machines or for wet coating of adhesives, varnishing, infiltrations - hot air dryers have been the industry standard. Although these dryers are large, not very dynamic and not very flexible for process variations, they are very energy-efficient due to the low gas price/electricity price ratio (usually < 1/3, sometimes even < 1/5!).

Therefore, electrothermal, inductive or infrared process systems were not competitive. What makes our new ^aLITE® process so special?

The advanced Light Initiated Thermal Emission(^aLITE®) technology is a high-energy, photonic energy source in combination with integrated, speed-controlled hot air application, ventilation and defined moisture extraction.

Thanks to the almost instantaneous high energy and mass transfer possible, an

• extremely dynamic (even within fractions of a second) drying process and therefore
• This minimizes the footprint (most compact drying technology on the market) and enables
• flexible adaptation to relevant process variations (such as width, speed, coating type, water content, ...) and
• defined and precise process parameter control and
  • no heat-up and no stand-by operation enable high productivity and
  • productivity and
  • product capacity and
  • process efficiency

and generate no_{CO2 emissions}, which will be banned in more and more regions of the world in the coming years.

This means that ^aLITE® systems are already competitively priced in terms of energy operating costs for a large number of process lines - even without taking_{CO2 taxes} into account.

If the current and already defined additional_{CO2 taxes} are added, it becomes a cost killer for gas systems. Further significant cost savings are possible for

• Investments in process engineering systems and
• buildings and
• infrastructural facilities

resulting from the extremely reduced space requirement and the environmental and media supply and treatment.

Finally, ^aLITE® can also be used for very temperature-sensitive processes (e.g. printing and wet coating processes on plastic substrates, corrugated cardboard or polymer textiles).