The quality of your product
(our dryer is 25+ years old and still going strong)
and the superior caliber of your technical support
have given us nothing but the highest satisfaction.
Bill Hovey, Plant Maintenance Manager
Print-O-Tape, Mundelein, IL
Located in Green Bay, Wisconsin, ASI has been an industry leader in providing custom drying, curing, and cooling solutions to manufacturers in the US and abroad since 1986. We specialize in forced air convection drying and curing solutions for the converting, inline, roll-to-roll and continuous process industries. Our systems employ a variety of web transport and heating methods, including air flotation, roll-support, through-air, and infrared (IR) supplementary heat.
MARKETS SERVED
ASI's dryers are used in virtually every industry from adhesives and release liners to home goods and construction materials. Our dryers are used on coating, casting, laminating lines to dry and cure water, volatile solvent based, and 100% solid coatings applied to any continuous web, including paper, plastic, film, foil, nonwovens, and foam substrates. We have designed and built inline drying systems as short as 36 inches to over 200 feet in length for widths ranging from 4 inches to over 200 inches wide. Web speeds vary from less than 20 fpm to almost 2,000 fpm. Some of the industries we serve include:
Adhesives
Three-zone flotation dryer for a specialty coatings, adhesives, and tape line.
Automotive
Two-zone impingement dryer with platens for an automotive foam product.
Aerospace
Six-zone flotation dryer with overall length of 153-feet for aerospace applications.
Construction
Six-zone Through-Air-Dryer (TAD) for fiberglass mat used in the shingle and construction industry.
Energy
Three-zone flotation dryer with integrated plenum for a battery electrode coating line on an aluminum or copper foil web.
Filtration
Two-zone flotation dryer for nonwoven reverse osmosis filter media.
Foam
Two-zone roll-support dryer for foam product used in automotive, electrical, sealing, and fastening applications.
Medical
Three-zone flotation dryer for a paper-based transdermal pharmaceutical line.
Nonwovens
Three-zone flotation dryer for nonwoven diaper material.
Optical Materials
Multi-zone flotation drying system with HEPA-filtered supply and makeup air for optical coating application.
Packaging
Two-zone flotation dryer for a flexible packaging line.
Release Liners
Three-zone flotation dryer for PSAs and silicone-based release liners.