Toasty Warm and Dry

To combine or not to combine?

Manufacturers today have taken the benefits of IR energy and combined them with air, offering converters a drying system that will not damage their products. Robert Narang, president of Radiant Energy Systems, Inc. (Hawthorne, N.J.), says, "The IR and air combination is a wonderful development, and is very beneficial for drying coatings which are heat sensitive and prone to skinning. The combination works so well because infrared energy heats the water or solvent in the coating very rapidly, and the air provides the scrubbing action to break down the vapor barrier and take the solvent away."