Industrial Crate & Supply Company makes heat exchangers, parts and coils for commercial air conditioning units at its Stuttgart, AR plant. It supplies these products to a large global HVAC manufacturer.
Compressed air is a major factor in the facility, which uses air-powered staple and nail guns and has several miles of air lines, according to the company’s industrial component supply manager, Phillip Bell.
Two aging 20-HP belt-drive reciprocating compressors couldn’t keep up. With his plant responsible for producing $17,000 worth of heat exchangers every day, Bell said, downtime could not be tolerated.
And he had a constant parade of workers in his office, saying their nail guns wouldn’t work, and there wasn’t enough pressure to bend the pipes used in the heat exchangers.
Kaishan’s 30-HP KRSD rotary screw air compressor replaced two aging, 20-HP units at Industrial Crate & Supply, according to Phillip Bell, industrial component supply manager.
Phillip did his own research and settled on Kaishan. When James Sellers from Arkansas Industrial Machinery visited to provide more information, the two found that they shared some of the same hunting grounds and had some of the same hunting buddies. So, the two hit it off immediately.
James recommended a 30-HP KRSD direct-drive rotary screw compressor, knowing the Kaishan could easily handle the load that the two aging compressors struggled to fill. And the cost was significantly lower than the 20-HP units it replaced.
When he made his case to top management, Phillip said, “My boss liked the way the compressor looked.” The rest, as they say, is history.
“It’s a bad— compressor,” Phillip said. “We’re tickled with it.”
He’s also thrilled with the warranty. “It’s a blessing,” he said.
And it’s quieter. After the installation was complete, Phillip said, “My maintenance man’s eyes got this big, and he said, ‘Man, you can’t even hear it.’”
With the older units, he said, you had to yell to communicate. “But that sucker’s super nice.”
“They don’t come up here to [complain] about their gun or nothing like that,” Phillip said. “It just shut them up.”
“The Kaishan people were really nice, easy to work with,” he said.
On one lone occasion, when an alarm went off, AIM responded immediately.
“Whatever problem we had with the compressor, that alarm, stuff like that, they were on it.”
— Phillip Bell, Industrial Component Supply Manager, ICS
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