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T-PRINT REDUCE CARBON FOOTPRINT WITH COMPLETE DRYER REPLACEMENT
The TPrint facility
One of the UK’s largest and longest standing Garment decorators, T-Print, based in the North West, have long considered their impact on the environment and ways to reduce this impact and their Carbon Footprint.
The latest investment that T-Print has made to reduce their Carbon Footprint is a total replacement of all their Conveyor dryers for the latest, most efficient models available from Adelco. This represents four complete conveyor drying systems, said to be the largest UK dryer investment by a UK printer for over 15 years.
T-Print have operated energy efficient Gas Fired dryers from Adelco for over 25 years but continually review changes and improvements that are available to significantly lower drive down their environmental Impact.
T-Print recently undertook a market study to check the availability of dryers from various manufacturers and ascertain the level of improvements available in dryer energy efficiency without compromising on the reliability and curing consistency of their current drying systems.
At the end of this research, T-Print found that the latest Jet Force dryers from their existing dryer supplier, Adelco, increased the curing ability and reliability of their existing dryers whilst reducing the energy consumption significantly.
This not only had a huge impact on the Carbon Footprint with which T-Print were concerned but reduced running costs to such an extent that the investment in replacing the dryers would be returned in a matter of a few years.
T-Print had already commissioned a survey by the carbon trust and was offered an interest free loan against the savings provided by the Adelco dryers.
Mark Smith from Adelco commented “Adelco continually strive to reduce the energy consumption of all our drying systems. Around a year and a half ago, we commenced a detailed test and analysis operation that resulted in a new and unique airflow design which increased the consistency of the airflow distribution in our Jet Force range of dryers and at the same time we reduced the energy consumption by as much as 30%. The new airflow system also eliminated the need to add Infra Red Preheat systems to dryers that have been common for many years. These preheat systems can represent almost half the total running cost of a gas fired dryer.”
Alan Bainbridge, Managing director of award winning T-Print Ltd confirmed “I have worked with Mark at Adelco on drying systems for over 20 years and I am delighted with the new dryers Adelco have provided and the reduction they have made on our environmental impact.”
Adelco report that the energy savings apply to both their Gas Fired and Electric Jet Force dryer Models but that the energy efficiency of gas fired models is much greater and can easily enable companies that invest in this technology to obtain an interest free loan from the Carbon Trust.
For further information on drying systems from Adelco visit www.adelco.co.uk
