Carville are a contract manufacturer of precision machine CNC plastics. We also specialize in high accuracy diffusion bonded manifolds and these are fluidic manifolds, a bit like a PCB, but for fluids. We supply these into the medical device industry, life sciences and diagnostics. 

Carville use our vacuum systems to securely hold down and position the plastic plates and vacuum fixtures ready for CNC machining.

We had an excess of compressed air in the facility and we basically used  that compressed are via a simple Venturi system to generate vacuums on the machines. But as the product mix has changed over the years we have required more and more vacuum systems across most of the machines.

Generating a vacuum via a Venturi system is very inefficient so it put an increasing demand on the compressors.