Drying is one of the more energy-hungry stages of the injection moulding process, and it’s not always obvious how much a more efficient dryer would actually save until you put real numbers against it.

qip GmbH, one of our material drying partners, has put together a savings calculator that does exactly that. It’s a genuinely useful five-minute exercise if you’re weighing up whether a compressed air dryer makes sense for your process.

Why Compressed Air Drying Is Different

Most conventional dryers use refrigeration or desiccant regeneration to remove moisture from the air before it reaches the material. Both work, but both carry a real energy cost, running more or less continuously to keep drying air at the right dew point.

qip’s dryers take a different approach. They use compressed air already available on most factory floors, rather than generating dried air from scratch. Their ID-BD and CD-TD series are built for this, with hopper volumes from small desktop units up to 170 litres. They’re designed to mount directly onto the production machine.

What the Calculator Actually Estimates

The qip savings calculator lets you enter details about your current setup. It then estimates the potential difference a compressed air dryer could make. Go in with your own figures to hand — current dryer type, running hours, and material throughput — so the result reflects your actual process, not a generic average.

The value here isn’t treating the output as a guaranteed number. It’s getting a realistic starting point for whether the conversation is worth having at all.

Who This Is Worth Looking At For

If you’re running a conventional desiccant or refrigerant dryer continuously, this is worth five minutes of your time. That’s especially true on smaller machines or lower throughput lines. It’s also worth a look if you’ve been searching for ways to cut energy costs more broadly. Drying is often a bigger contributor to a factory’s energy bill than people expect.

This ties into a point we’ve made before about material handling being one of the foundational stages that shapes both quality and cost further down the line. Drying efficiency is very much part of that picture.

Get in Touch

If you run the numbers and want to talk through whether a compressed air dryer is a good fit for your setup, we’re happy to help. We work with qip as one of our material drying partners and can advise on what would actually suit your process.

Geiger Handling UK Ltd
Phone: 01782 630555
Email: sales@geigerhandling.co.uk
Web: geigerhandling.co.uk