The Centipede

“Ding-dong. ‘Good afternoon, ma’am, may I show you something?”

Before you knew it, a well-dressed salesman was standing in your living room, demonstrating a futuristic vacuum cleaner that claimed to solve all your problems—dust allergies, pet hair, and probably even your taxes. The only problem? It blew just as much dust back into the room as it sucked up, and it cost about the same as a small car.

Fortunately, at Selmers, we don’t have to go door-to-door selling our latest innovation and green solution! This system will sell itself, simply because it works, and saves money. No slick sales pitches, no ‘free set of steak knives,’ just hard-hitting energy savings and efficiency.

Right now, we are developing an innovative sustainable solution that embodies this principle: the ‘Centipede’. The Centipede will be commissioned at the end of year, but its’ savings potential is so impressive that it is already selling itself even before it’s finished!

The Centipede blowing tool has about a hundred blow-nozzles, hence its name. So, what do the hundred ‘legs’ do that make it so effective? When cleaning pipes before coating, dust and abrasives mostly accumulate at the lower right side of the pipe. The old solution? A massive setup of blowers and ventilators pushing air throughout the entire pipe to remove the particles. Best compared to using a sledgehammer to crack a nut…

So, where regular practice is to use lots of power and energy, and produce lots of waste, the Centipede takes a smarter approach. Instead of brute force, it uses a combination of single targeted blowers at the exact right spot. The result?

• Lower energy consumption: hundreds of thousands of Kwh savings per year.
• Fewer blowers, fewer dust filters: lower material costs and cleaner work environment.
• Less maintenance: equipment gets a longer lifespan.
• Less waste, more efficiency: this is exactly what sustainability is about.

At Selmers, we are constantly developing green innovations—including this centipede—and our goal is always to make them efficient from day one. We’re not saying efficiency and cost savings always equals sustainability, but in industrial processes, the two often go hand in hand. The bottom line is: “Less energy usage– less waste and less material –lower costs”. So, good for the planet and for your business.