Published 29th Aug 2023, 16:45 BST

The new technology, which has been created by engineering firm Lontra, hopes to meet growing industry requirements and provide the market with a new, environmentally sustainable solution for air delivery in industrial settings.

The technology reduces noise and electricity savings of up to 34 per cent compared with traditional products.

The firm, which is led by innovator Steve Lindsey, said it is committed to answering increasing demand by quadrupling the production of its innovative LP2 Blade Blower year-on-year until 2025.

Steve Lindsey, who formed Lontra in 2004.

“Seeing the first LP2 Blower come off the production line was a real milestone moment for the business,” said Mr Lindsey, who formed the company in 2004.

“This is the first commercial innovation seen in the air compressor market in 85 years and it can’t come soon enough. Heavy industry uses these products to deliver power to manufacturing lines, to drive furnaces, convey material and blow away granules in cement factories and crumbs in biscuit factories.

“All that blowing comes at a heavy cost to the environment. Compressors account for a staggering 10 per cent of Europe’s industrial electricity use, which equates to more than 10 Terawatt-hours of power per year and some 4.3million tonnes of CO2 emissions.

Demand is already coming from the US for the firm’s technology, which accounts for nearly 25 per cent of the global market. A further recruitment push is expected to increase Lontra’s workforce, which has already doubled in the last year.

Inneo Solutions introduced Lontra to PTC’s cloud-based 3D CAD Design software Creo had been critical in achieving the complex geometry that makes the LP2 Blade Blower so different to its predecessors.

Doncaster-based Lontra begins roll out of 'milestone' new air compressor technology