Fenêtres MQ, Quebec, Canada

Luxury Window and Door Manufacturer Uses Condair to Produce Flawless Products

Founded in 1975, Fenêtres MQ has built a reputation for creating luxury custom engineered windows and doors for the most demanding criteria. Their manufacturing facility in Ste-Agathe, Quebec, sources exceptional materials that requires a precise environment to maintain the final product quality expected by their customers.

Claude Ménard, the president of Mécanique du bâtiment MC2 was the mechanical contractor that initiated conversations with Fenêtres MQ to look at the manufacturing challenges they needed to overcome and what solutions would be best when it come to their indoor air quality.

“Fenêtres MQ was in need of maintaining their indoor relative humidity between 40-45% RH in order to prevent the wood used in their products from splitting”, explained Mr. Ménard.

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Facility challenges and tailored humidification

MC2 worked closely with Fenêtres MQ to find a reliable solution to maintain the required humidity levels and to solve some of the challenges their facility had. A section of the manufacturing facility of Fenêtres MQ in Ste-Agathe is newer but other areas of the original 50 year old structure includes extremely low ceiling heights which can be a challenge when looking for the perfect humidification solution. Fenêtres MQ was also looking for a humidification solution that could offer an energy efficient cooling effect for areas of their facility that were causing discomfort due to elevated temperatures.

Upgraded to high-pressure humidification

The facility already had a direct water injected humidification system which became insufficient with the installation of a new outdoor air compensation system.

After careful consideration and consulting with HVAC distributor Qualite Air Totale (QAT), a Condair ML Series, Direct Room Humidification system was selected installed.

The ML Series system is comprised of a high pressure pumpstation and ML Princess ceiling mounted high pressure humidifiers. The ML Princess units are ideal for use in production areas, warehouses and fit well into spaces with low ceiling heights such as the Fenêtres MQ manufacturing space. The ML Princess humidifier has an integrated fan that distributes the humidification mist uniformly in a 360-degree fashion.

Condair ML high-pressure humidification helps Fenêtres MQ maintain 40–45% RH, protect wood quality, and improve comfort in challenging manufacturing spaces.

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Projects and references

Nemschof Inc, USA

Nemschoff, the highly regarded healthcare‘furniture manufacturer in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, faced serious production problems when its 60,000¯sq¯ft casegoods plant dropped to relative humidity (RH) levels as low as 12%. The dry air caused wood panels™ moisture content to drop to 3‘4¯%, leading to massive waste: 25“30% of panels split and were discarded at a cost of¯$90“$100 each. Seeking an energy‘efficient, low‘maintenance alternative to compressed‘air and boiler steam systems, they selected Condair™s engineered ML humidification system. Installed and calibrated across zones, the ML Princess units maintained RH above 35%. The result: splitting of hardwood panels fell from around 25‘30% to just 1‘2%. The solution delivered significant cost savings, increased productivity and better scheduling reliability. Nemschoff now plans to upgrade additional plants with Condair systems.

Benchmark

Benchmark Electronics Inc is an EMS, ODM, and OEM companybased in Angleton, TX in Greater Houston. It provides contract manufacturing services. Benchmark Electronics's customers have included Sun Microsystems, Medtronic, EMC Corporation, iRobot, and Silicon Graphics.

Prophet's Mosque Medina, Saudi Arabia

Medina is the second most important pilgrimage site in Islam and is home to one of the largest mosques in the world. Millions of Muslims make an annual pilgrimage to the Saudi city, which is hot and dry all year round.

In the sun, the temperature often rises to 50°C. In order to provide visitors to the outdoor site with greater comfort and protection, large umbrellas have been erected to provide protection from the sun. There are a total of 250 sun umbrellas, with each one providing shade for an area of around 600 mÂ².

Condair has designed, manufactured and supplied a sophisticated cooling system, that is integrated into existing shading umbrellas, and cools the air up to 10°C.

Medina