SOLON, OHIO — You can fill standard IG units in less than 15 seconds and keep pace with the industry’s fastest production lines with the new FastGas high-speed argon-only gas filling system, the third groundbreaking gas filling and verification innovation from the makers of the OptiGas intelligent gas filling system.
FastGas uses patent-pending Twin Turbo technology to fill insulating glass made with any spacer system precisely, rapidly and reliably. FastGas provides 100 percent argon retention as the fill is done on the top edge.
“A single operator running a FastGas machine with two stations can keep pace with the fastest Intercept insulating glass production line,” said Mike McHugh, president and founder of OptiGas/Integrated Automation Systems. “Pair FastGas with our ThermalCHECK gas filling quality control unit and you can fill and verify the gas content of your IG at the speed of production.”
McHugh’s company developed FastGas to meet market demand for a fast and reliable argon-only gas filling system. The portable wheeled system is available with one or two stations.
ThermalCHECK is an affordable and compact desktop quality control system that first mixes and then directly measures the gas content in IG air spaces in real time. “ThermalCHECK does not estimate or interpolate and you don’t have to wait a day for the gas to settle to get an accurate reading,” said McHugh.
Integrated Automation Systems’ first breakthrough was in 2011 with the award-winning OptiGas intelligent gas filling system. OptiGas enables affordably achieving a wide range of thermal performance targets by selective use of krypton with zero waste, reducing krypton per unit by 80 percent.
The company also introduced in 2011 the ThermalCERT quality control system, which statistically verifies gas content for any batch. Customers are already publically promoting to end users the verified content windows and doors tested with ThermalCERT. ThermalCHECK is an easy to use evolution of ThermalCERT technology, McHugh said.