Many dryers in printing and coating systems are fossil, mostly gas-powered.

Large plants, high energy consumption (natural gas), function-related high CO2 release and now even further cost increases due to the gas supply situation, which among other things, entails incalculable, exploding costs due to the current war situation between Russia and Ukraine. There is no end in sight, certainly not in the short-term.

The adphos group, as the technology leader in electrothermal drying and crosslinking systems, is now heralding the turning point and replacing gas dryers and hot-air ovens with