Elevate your Compressed Air Quality with Festo's MS Series
In many industries, clean compressed air is not a luxury, it’s essential. Whether your operation involves driving manufacturing lines, running timber mills, automating food production, or ensuring the smooth packaging of pharmaceuticals, air quality directly impacts your plant’s product quality, output, uptime, and safety. At PSL Total Air, we’ve seen firsthand the downsides of untreated compressed air: system failures, increased costs, and unnecessary downtime.
Raw compressed air drawn from compressors carries dust, water, oil, and sometimes even heavy metals or chemical residues. Where precision and reliability matter contaminant management must be meticulous and standards-led. That’s why compliance with ISO 8573-1:2010 for air purity is non-negotiable.
Why Festo’s MS Series is an Ideal Solution
Achieving the right purity class without oversizing your system takes both expertise and flexible technology. The Festo MS Series offers exactly that, a modular, best-in-class system PSL Total Air can configure to meet the unique requirements of your application, from large-scale manufacturing right through to sensitive production in food, beverage, or medical environments.
1. Your First Line of Defence: Bulk Liquid & Particle Removal
- Water Separators (MS-LWS): For industries dealing with high moisture levels, these maintenance-free units consistently remove up to 99% of water, preventing rust and downstream headaches.
- Sinter Filters & Filter Regulators (MS-LF & MS-LFR): Available in both 40 μm (standard) and 5 μm (fine) filtering, these modules are expert at trapping dust and particulate, extending the life of your installation and minimizing corrective callouts.
2. Microscopic Mists & Oil: Filtered Out for Peace of Mind
Basic filtration might suffice for utility air, but critical processes (think electronics, advanced food processing, or high-integrity manufacturing) demand more.
- Fine & Micro-Filters (MS-LFM): For the highest levels of purity, these filters remove contaminants down to 1 μm and even 0.01 μm, trapping almost every trace of oil aerosol and ultrafine mist. Set up correctly (with fine filter ahead of micro), you reach 99.99995% separation efficiency.
3. Eliminating Odours & Gaseous Residues
Even after solid and liquid contaminants are removed, odours and vapours can threaten sensitive end-products.
- Activated Carbon Filters (MS-LFX): Used widely in NZ food, beverage, and pharmaceutical sectors, these ensure residual oil content is cut to ≤0.003 mg/m³, critical when product safety and taste are at stake. For best results, always install with upstream microfiltration.
4. Taming Humidity for Ultra-Sensitive Operations
Some applications need more than just water separation; they require precise humidity control to prevent bacterial growth or corrosion.
- Membrane Air Dryers (MS-LDM1): These clever, maintenance-free dryers further reduce dew point, safeguarding your process from condensation-related risks.
Why Modular Matters: The PSL Service Advantage
The real genius of the Festo MS Series is its modular flexibility. Sizes range from MS2 to MS12, so whether you need a simple 40 μm filter regulator for general plant air or a cascading chain of fine, micro and carbon filters for packaging cleanrooms, we can build and rapidly maintain the right solution. Need a quick replacement or maintenance? No need to shut down or dismantle whole lines, plug-and-play design keeps you running.
And with PSL as your trusted New Zealand Festo distributor, you benefit from advanced system design, expert installation, preventive maintenance, and support that’s locally grounded and always available.
No matter your sector, food & beverage, manufacturing, timber, packaging, medical, engineering, and beyond, PSL Total Air combines industry-leading products like the Festo MS Series with tailored, real-world expertise to guarantee your compressed air system works as hard as you do. Ready for a system that delivers perfect air quality, fewer breakdowns, and true peace of mind? Talk to us today.
