Industries we serve
The right compressed air system depends on the standard your industry answers to: ISO 8573-1 Class 0 for food and pharma contact points, NFPA 99 for hospital air, and demand-based sizing for general manufacturing. Start with your industry below and each page walks the specification, the equipment path, and the audit questions for it.
Where food grade air is required, where it is not, and how to split contact from utility air so you only pay for Class 0 where product is touched.
ISO 8573-1 Class 0
Plan food grade air
ISA-7.0.01 instrument air, process air at Class 0 where it enters the stream, on-site nitrogen for blanketing and purging, and redundant configurations for continuous process plants.
Instrument air and N+1
Review your instrument air
Four applications with four different air quality requirements from one compressor room: blast air, plasma air, laser assist gas, and machine tool air.
Blast, plasma, laser, machine
Design your fab shop air
Which tasks need compressed air, which need vacuum, and where Class 0 applies on contact packaging, plus the venturi-to-pump crossover math.
Line speed utilities
Map your line utilities
Bay-and-tool sizing for shops: rotary screw 5 to 25 HP, dryers that stop moisture in the lines, and OSHA Grade D breathing air for the paint booth.
Shop and body shop air
Size your shop air
Low pressure plant air, high pressure PET blow air, and the dry air that stops splay and silver streaking on hygroscopic resins, plus process cooling.
Molding and dry air
Plan your molding air
Towable compressors sized from tool CFM, 185, 375, and 750 classes, plus dewatering pumps and the honest rent-versus-buy math for project work.
Portable diesel air
Size your jobsite air
Validated Class 0 process air, NFPA 99 medical gas context, and the qualification documentation your quality unit will be asked to produce.
cGMP and NFPA 99
Plan validated air
Sizing from real simultaneous demand, VSD guidance, and the leak math that DOE says wastes 20 to 30 percent of what most plants compress.
Plant air system design
Size your plant air
Sizing from the tools running at the same time: nailers, spray finishing, CNC routing, and sawmill utility air from a single correctly specified compressor room.
Shop to sawmill air
Size your wood shop air
Contact air at ISO 8573-1 Class 0, instrument air at ISA-7.0.01 dew point, vacuum for the press section, and N+1 redundancy that keeps the machine running.
Oil-free and instrument air
Plan paper mill air
Consistent dry air for cold box core blowing, sand handling and conveying, shakeout tools, and baghouse pulse-jet cleaning in high ambient heat and dust.
Hot, dusty duty
Plan your foundry air
Sanitary oil-free contact air for filling, capping, and film blow-off in the cheese and dairy plants Brabazon has served from Green Bay since 1978.
3-A sanitary and Class 0
Plan sanitary dairy air
On-site nitrogen for canning and tank purging, oil-free blow-off at the filler, aeration, keg washing, and grain handling from one correctly split system.
Nitrogen and canning air
Plan brewery utilities
Portable diesel compressors for the pit, pulse-jet air that keeps baghouse bags from blinding, and dense phase conveying of cement and fly ash.
Portable and plant air
Plan plant and site air
Conveying blowers, gate and diverter actuation, and baghouse air for elevators and feed mills, with rental capacity for harvest peaks and rural coverage.
Seasonal, rural duty
Plan grain handling air
Clean dry air that protects presses and printheads, plus the vacuum that feeds sheets and carries the web through printing and converting lines.
Dry air and vacuum
Plan press air and vacuum
Oil-free Class 0 air for molding, assembly, and packaging in controlled environments, with documentation support and Twin Cities corridor service.
Cleanroom-grade Class 0
Plan cleanroom-grade air
PD, screw, and turbo blowers compared on efficiency and turndown, with EPA putting aeration at 50 to 60 percent of plant energy use.
Aeration blower efficiency
Evaluate your blowers
Sizing from spindles, bar feeders, and blow-off actually running at once, with the dry air that keeps moisture out of turrets and tool changers.
Machine tool air
Size your shop air
N+1 duplex instrument air packages, desiccant drying to a -40 F class dew point, and the monitoring points your reliability standard expects.
ISA-7.0.01 instrument air
Configure instrument air
Clean dry air held at the tool: Class 0 oil-free supply, desiccant drying to the -40 F class, and point-of-use filtration zoned to the sensitive processes.
CDA and ISO 8573-1 Class 0
Spec your CDA train
Grade D supplied air for blasting, coating, and confined space: compressor packages or purification panels with CO monitoring, sized per respirator user.
OSHA 1910.134 Grade D
Plan Grade D air
Yes, because the governing standard changes with the industry: food contact points need ISO 8573-1 Class 0 oil-free air, hospitals fall under NFPA 99, and general manufacturing is sized on demand and energy. The compressor room looks similar, but the air specification, monitoring, and documentation differ enough to change the equipment list.
Usually a split system wins: a certified oil-free machine feeds the points with a strict specification while a standard rotary screw carries utility load. Running the whole plant on the strictest spec is simpler to draw but wastes capital and energy every year after.
We engineer the system: demand audits, air quality specification against your governing standard, installation, and 24/7 service from 14 locations with an under 2 hour average response. Brabazon has done this since 1978 and has been the authorized Sullair dealer since 1984.
Twenty industries have dedicated guides, from food and beverage, chemical, and steel through plastics, dairy processing, breweries and distilleries, aggregates, agriculture, printing, and medical devices. Each guide covers the governing air quality standard, the equipment path, sizing tools, and the questions an audit will ask.
Brabazon covers Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, and Missouri from 14 branch locations including Green Bay, Milwaukee, Madison, Chicago, Minneapolis, and St. Louis. Every branch dispatches factory-trained technicians for emergency and scheduled service.
Describe your process and an engineer will map it to the governing standard and the right equipment path, no form fill required to talk. Prefer to start local? Find your nearest branch on the location finder.
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