Solvent emissions in Flexo industry

Steenwijk | 11-02-2009

Flourishing in the Flexographic industry

During Drupa 2008 Pure air solutions already showed the European Flexographic industry a new approach to deal with solvent emissions.

Since Drupa the company is looking at a huge interest from companies in the flexo and gravure industry, for their cost effective solution to reduce solvent emissions. The Vocus is already for over a year sucessfully operating at Papierindustrie Maasmond, who was the first company to use the system for solvent emissions. In february the Vocus is installed at Altecel.

After three years of innovation on its biotrickling filter, Pure air solutions showed that it is very well prepared for an extensive market expansion in the printing industry. Throughout the European Union there is a large interest in the VOCUS. For many companies the European environmental legislation can be catastrophic for their business.

Many companies detain capacity growth to stay under the level of the SED. During Drupa Albert Waalkens, director of Pure air solutions quoted: “We recognize that SME companies are mostly effected by the solvent legislation. For them the total cost for solving their emission problem needs to be in proprotion with their business operations". Especially for these companies Pure air solutions developed the VOCUS. With the VOCUS companies are able to combine economic and environmental issues with all other organizational processes.

With 30 years of experience in industrial and biological air treatment Pure air solutions is able to bring a new dimension in the abatement of solvent emissions. Using bacteria is already a proven approach for reducing emissions, but it has always been accompanied by its limitations. With our knowledge on biotechnology and our extensive collaboration with several partners we took away these limitations and make this technique suitable for a wide range of companies. Because of continuous improvement the team celebrates almost monthly new records in the abatement of higher concentration levels.