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BEST WAYS TO SAVE!
Save Money While Maximizing Compressed Air Productivity:
Top 10 Tips from the World’s #1 Compressor Manufacturer
We have surveyed our experts! And created the top 10 tips to Save Money While Maximizing Compressed Air Productivity. From leak prevention to heat recovery, you'll find ideas that will help you save money.

Where to Start?
Measure. You can’t build a cost saving strategy around unknowns, so begin by
measuring your compressed air system’s energy consumption, flow rates and operating air pressure. This will provide baseline values, help to identify problem areas and compute actual cost savings from any improvements you make. A great way to analyze a compressed air system is to draw a pressure profile that shows the pressure drops through a system. These pressure measurements give feedback for control adjustments, determine pressure drops across components, and help to determine system operating pressures. Ask your Air Technologies representative to show you how.

Click here to download your top ten tips!
Practical Ways to Save Energy at Work

Are you reducing your environmental impact? Conserving the environment and its natural
resources is becoming more important for every business.

Each business is different but we all share some of the same issues. The following list is some
ideas that may help you become greener and save money at the same time.

1. Have an energy meeting with your employees and co-workers to discuss ways to save
   energy.
2. Create an energy committee to come up with energy saving tips.
3. Pay a small reward to employees who suggest new ways to save energy.
4. Performing a professional energy audit of your business is a good method to find new
          ways to save energy – often times this is a free service.
5. Create incentives that will encourage employees to live close to work.

Click here to download the entire list of 37 tips.
Pay as You $ave
The Pay as You $ave program is designed to help your company save energy dollars with little or no up-front expense and you pay for it from the savings it generates for you!
How can ManagAIR® help you?


•Efficiently sequenced all connected compressors
•Real time energy saving data
•Instantaneous operating status of each compressor
•Shutdown history
•Alarm alerts with automatic page or email
•Automatic data logging with graphing
•Automated sequence changes  and energy reporting
•Compressor diagnostics—local and remote
•View ManagAIR® on your local network or over the internet
•Connect to all brands of compressors/dryers

ManagAIR® has been the #1 energy saving controls for compressed air systems for the past 14 years.  It’s a unique computerized system developed by Air Technologies® that efficiently monitors and controls your compressed air system 24 hours per day.  Industrial plants can spend thousands of dollars each year on the energy that powers their compressed air systems. This energy represents approximately 75% of the total cost of compressed air, according to the Industrial Efficiency Alliance (IEA).
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March 2009 Joke of the Month.

A young gentleman sitting at a bar with his pet pig asks for a couple of drinks. The confused bartender said no animals were allowed at the bar. The man proceeded to say "Ah, but this is a very special pig. Just last week there was a fire in the house and that pig came charging out of his pen into the house and woke us all up .Then a few days later my son fell into the pool and that pig was grazing out on the lawn, and he came running and jumped into the pool and saved my son. ""Well " said the bartended "I guess this pig is very special so I'll get him a drink. By the way I noticed that he is missing one leg, what happened? " "Well said the young man, when you got a pig this good you don't eat him all at once !!!"

The Economic Stimulus Act of 2008 is now Extended into 2009!
You can save big tax savings for your business!
Washington Busienss Journal Monday, February 23rd 2009

The economic stimulus package extended two tax incentives for business investment through the end of this year. Companies can write off 50 percent of the cost of new equipment immediately instead of following the usual depreciation schedules. Small businesses can expense up to $250,000 of new equipment purchases this year.

An example of a small business investing $500,000 in equipment that normally is depreciated over five years. The business could take the $250,000 Section 179 expensing limit and then apply 50 percent bonus depreciation. The business could then depreciate $25,000 of the remaining $125,000 of the investment this year. The end result: The business could write off $400,000 of the $500,000 investment this year, instead of having to wait to recover this money.

The economic stimulus package provides a solution, however, to businesses with less than $15 million in annual revenue. The new law allows these businesses to carry back net operating losses for five years, instead of the previous two-year limit. A business that currently is losing money could apply these losses to a previous profitable year and then claim a refund for taxes paid that year.

The refunds could be used to make investments in new equipment -- and take advantage of this year's tax incentives -- or be used simply to keep the doors open.

Companies with more than $15 million in annual revenue aren't eligible to carry back their net operating losses five years, however. House-Senate negotiators made middle-market companies and large corporations ineligible for this benefit in order to trim the cost of the $787 billion stimulus bill.
Business tax breaks Under the economic stimulus package:
  • Businesses can immediately write off 50 percent of the cost of new equipment purchased in 2009
  • Small businesses can immediately write off $250,000 for capital expenditures made this year
  • Small businesses with gross receipts of $15 million or less can carry back net operating losses for five years instead of two years
  • Some companies can defer taxes on certain types of business debt repurchased before 2011
Source: Senate Finance Committee