Nex Flow Air Products Blog

As a factory owner and operator, your goal is a workplace that is productive efficient, and safe. An almost unending list of factors goes into making a production facility safe both from within and without. The obvious ones like preventing fires and limiting air pollution are always a high priority. Unfortunately, too many people ignore the need to reduce noise pollution.  A loud factory floor has many drawbacks, including:

• Damage to worker’s health through tinnitus and hypertension,
• Stress and confusion induced mistakes
• An increase in aggressive behavior
• Damage to the surrounding neighborhoods and ecosystems

If a production facility relies on air amplification technology, it is a great place to start a noise reduction project. Open or under-protected jets of air not only reduce your efficiency through lost air pressure but they also can produce up to 85 decibels of noise or more. While that is still below a jackhammer or loud stereo, you must remember that it is rare to just have one air amplifier on a factory floor, so the level is cumulative.  One of the ways to fix and eliminate this inefficiency comes in the form of amplifying nozzles. By replacing open jets with high-quality amplifying nozzles, you can achieve a 3-decibel reduction on each jet.  The key to this operation is the level of quality.

Now, we understand that factories are not libraries. No one is expecting a whisper soft, steel casting or printing plant. However, limiting the noise pollution is no longer just an option, it is a necessity.

Everyone at Nex Flow™ is quite excited to introduce our Air Edger™ Flat Jet Nozzle. This innovative new product provides you with a powerful force all while reducing compressed air usage and noise levels. The force of the 2” wide unit can be adjusted easily by changing or stacking various sized shims. The high-level of versatility means the Air Edger™ is perfect for a wide range of your most critical blow-off applications.

You can choose from seven different Air Edger™ Flat Jet models, which offer gap settings from .004” to .028”. If you do not know which setting is the right one for you, we suggest that you get a basic model and add a Model 42711S Shim Set so you can stack and remove shims to find the perfect gap setting for your customized needs.

No matter which New Flow™ Air Edger™ Flat Jet Nozzle you choose from, you will be receiving the same unique set of advantages:

• Less ambient noise and lower air consumption
• The ability to work at great distance because of the unit’s high force and laminar flow
• OSHA pressure level approved and it is available in sturdy zinc aluminum

If you are in the market for the world’s best air edger nozzle, then you need Nex Flow’s Air Edger™ Flat Jet Nozzle. To learn more about this exciting new product, please visit our website or contact a Nex Flow expert today.

If you look around the internet, you will come across many articles on the use of air amplification technology, especially when it comes to compressed air versus blowers. As you might expect, blower manufacturers think their technology is tops, while air amplifier producer feel much the same way about their product.

In reality there is no right answer. As with so many things in life, it depends on the application. At Nex Flow we have noticed that there is one serious, habitual flaw among these products one finds on the web: the use of overly simple AC testers (often marked up price-wise by air amplifier suppliers) to determine if a static bar is working. All these testers really do is to show the user they have electrical power going through the static control devices. They do NOT indicate if they are producing the ions necessary for static elimination.

Nex Flow™ has several authoritative articles already written on our web site that address blowers versus compressed air, as well as static measurement. Keep an eye out both on our website and this blog, since more will be added in the future. It’s our way of keeping you, the customer, informed in an unbiased manner, as well as clarifying the many misconceptions regarding this technology.

No matter what tech solution you chose, Nex Flow™ Air Products are not only of the highest quality, but also the lowest in price. We offer significant technological and quality superiority over any competitor. Period.

In our first blog on why you should buy from Nex Flow™ we covered the topics of better materials and actual material protection. This time around, we are going to dealing a number of issues surrounding  the choices you make as a consumer of compressed air products.

3. Uncomplicated Choice

Ever get confused on web sites with a multiple listing of products and package combinations? Not only is it annoying, but often these endless packages are nothing more than marketing gimmicks with no real extra value for customers. At Nex Flow™, we aim to provide “complete” packages at a fair price, often lower than the competition without trying to up the price with little extras that can add unfairly to the cost.

4. Product Development and Simplicity

Since day one, the goal of Nex Flow™ is to keep our products simple in design, easy to apply and universal in scope. As we add new products, you will find them to be the least complicated, optimally designed with the best materials to make each product applicable to most applications and environments encountered – with little need for costly “specials” except in the most unusual of cases. In the end we want our customers’ choices to be uncomplicated, all while making what the purchase easy to install and maintain. Because in the end, everything we do needs to be about the customer!

It’s easy to just say “buy from us, because we’re better!” It’s a statement that is often made but not always challenged. At Nex Flow™, we really believe you should buy from us. Yet unlike most other companies, we are going to take the time to tell you exactly why you needn’t go anywhere else for your compressed air product needs. Over the next three blogs we will layout the six main reasons why you should choose Nex Flow™.

1. Actual Material Protection

Imagine purchasing an automobile that wasn’t painted! That is often what you are doing when you buy air amplifiers, air knives and air wipes, and air conveyors from the competition!

All Nex Flow™ Air-Blade™ Air Knives, Ring-Blade™ Air Wipes and Ring-Vac™ Air Conveyors are anodized to hold up to the industrial environments to which these products are often subjected. Do not be “talked into” buying stainless steel when anodized aluminum is lighter, almost always just as effective for most applications, and significantly lower in price.

Stainless steel is supplied when necessary for food and pharmaceutical and high temperature applications when aluminum will not provide the means.

2. Better Materials

Some air amplifier producers keep touting the use of plastic shims to maintain the small gaps necessary for the products to function. Ever look at thin plastic after a month of being subjected to a constant flow of never completely dirt-free air, no matter how hard you try?

It isn’t exactly a pretty sight! That is, of course, if it hasn’t already worn to pieces. But Nex Flow™ only uses stainless steel shims – the kinds of shims that last in the difficult environments these products are subjected to. And we are typically STILL lower in price than similarly competitive products that use plastic.

All of our vortex tubes are stainless steel with brass generators and high temperature O-rings – since the reason you use these products is to “cool”. That means they typically are subjected to extreme heat environments. Nex Flow™ uses proper metal where possible to account for these realities – brass generators and stainless steel bodies for all vortex tubes.

Next time we will discuss product development, simplicity, and the concept of uncomplicated choice.

Let’s get right to the point. At Nex Flow™ Air Products Corp., we manufacture industry leading air-operated products. If you put your trust in us, Nex Flow™ will do what it takes to improve your plant’s efficiency, environment, level of quality, and energy efficiency all at a fair price. Our success is based on high-quality products and unmatched customer service.

It’s this level of professionalism that has taken Nex Flow™ from start-up to worldwide success in a relatively short period of time.  Since day one, we have focused on manufacturing air products that are extremely durable, highly effective, and fairly priced.  Our air knife products are a great example of this high level of commitment to our customers. Unlike many of our competitors who use less reliable plastic for their shims, Nex Flow™ utilizes strong and long lasting stainless steel. As well, all of our air knives and air amplifiers are anodized so they last longer and cost you less in the end.

It would be easy to make products that needed to be replaced more often; it’s a great way to make money in the short term.  But that’s not our goal. More than anything, we want to build long-term relationships. The only way to accomplish that is to offer products that will last as long as we want to keep you as a customer.

We plan to bring this same no-nonsense attitude to our blog. We will be providing our readers with engaging and informative content that is designed to deliver our message simply and effectively.

Please visit often, and if you have any questions or comments reach out to us via our website, email or over the phone.