Singapore based Mobi-Air, maker of modular plug-and-play air handling systems, has received an additional capability development grant (CDG) whose purpose is to, in part, underwrite mass production of factory air filtration systems and preemptively drive the company’s advanced technology to commodity price points. 

According to Jessica Xing, Mobi-Air finance manager, the majority of the company’s production will be fully automated and located in Singapore. Active sourcing of key assemblies will be maintained in Vietnam, Malaysia and Germany. 

Martin Scaife, Mobi-Air managing director, adds, “We are very happy to have our HQ located in Singapore and are looking forward to completing the last automation phases of the project. Having a single, flexible plug & play filtration system capable of being used across all adult, baby, fem and tissue production facilities is great for the hygiene industry overall. However, more importantly we have set a new standard in open process window air handling technology. End users can now expect to process between 0-80KCMH from a modular platform with a lower component count that readily adapts to automatic assembly.”

To go with this initiative, Mobi-Air will be completing a tree planting program in 2016 to off-set carbon emissions of the total product development life-cycle, including these additional automation phases.

The new automation systems use a mixture of internally developed automation processes as well as multiple commercially available 6-axis robotics that are expected to come on-line later in 2016.