Gardner Systems

The company originated in development work and implementation of several products and processes widely used in the industry dating back 50 years. Patents included the Gardner High Velocity dryer, the Gardner Floater Dryer (the current offset press dryer in universal use), the Gardner Pocket Ventilator, Dryer Drainage With, and others. Drying proces... s development included high speed drying of blade coatings, evaporative drying of printing inks, High Velocity tissue drying on Yankee dryers, Blow-Thru steam controls for dryer drainage, functional Process Simulation programs for dryer drainage, thermocompressors and other complex steam processes. Incorporated in 1967, Gardner Systems licensed patents and technology, and supplied engineering design and service for air dryers, machine ventilation, and dryer drainage systems to Valmet-Enerdry and its forebears for more than 20 years. The license agreements terminated in 1990 and the company embarked independently upon the manufacture of Steam & Condensate Systems. Having solved the structural problems of the process, the company rapidly became the primary supplier of paper machine steam systems. In the year 2000 for example, Gardner Systems built or rebuilt 12 steam systems, about 80% of all the work in North America and China that year, and the grand total currently exceeds 100 systems. New orders were largely based on the testimony of references, all of which achieved large production gains and remarkable energy savings. Our mark of excellence is that customers have virtually never needed further technical help or advice. Essentially, a Gardner steam system consists of a group of independent steam sections with identical controls using thermocompressors to recirculate blow-through steam from the dryers. Each section operates virtually independently; one may run at max pressure while its neighbor on either side may operate as low as 5.0 psi. Equipped with Blow-Thru controls and the necessary adjuncts that make it work, any section can operate automatically from near ...Read More