Benefits
Optimal humidity ensures dimensional stability, precise processing, and long-lasting wood quality. Condair’s humidification and dehumidification systems help manufacturers control air humidity efficiently, reducing waste and energy costs.
Consistent Quality & Precision
45–55% humidity keeps wood stable, avoiding warping, cracking, swelling, and ensuring quality.
Safer Work & Less Dust
Below 45% RH causes static and dust; controlled humidity ensures safety and a cleaner workshop.
Strong Bonds & Lamination
Stable 50–55% RH ensures adhesives cure properly, preventing delamination and joint failure
Problems with Gluing and Laminating
Problems with gluing and laminating are not uncommon. Glues often do not cure completely and evenly in dry conditions. Gluing problems also frequently occur with poorly fitting parts. Dry air can often cause glue joints to come apart or veneers to peel off the base wood when dimensions change or parts twist or “crack.
Problems with Static Electricity
Problems with static electricity in a woodworking environment occur when dry air causes surfaces to become charged with static electricity. This leads to a variety of problems such as dust fires and static explosions. In some cases, static electricity can also affect the adhesion of paints and coatings to wood.
Sawn Timber Drying and Storage
Dehumidification or drying can be an important factor in wood storage, ensuring smooth production afterwards. This prevents deformation, warping, or surface cracks, and the tearing or splitting of joints and frame corners can also be prevented by conditioning the wood appropriately. Dried sawn timber, for example for furniture production, may have a maximum moisture content of 8-9%. For other wood, for example for doors or windows, the moisture content may be a maximum of 12%. If this type of wood is stored in rooms without dehumidification, the result can be highly fluctuating quality. Changing moisture levels can cause changes in the wood structure and lead to processing problems during final processing. This results in high rejection rates due to poor product quality.
Sustainable Climate Control for the Wood Industry
Furniture manufacturers, sawmills, flooring and panel producers, joineries.
By maintaining stable humidity, Condair systems improve product quality, reduce rejects, and extend equipment life. This enables more sustainable and energy-efficient production with fewer interruptions and lower costs.
By maintaining stable humidity, Condair systems improve product quality, reduce rejects, and extend equipment life. This enables more sustainable and energy-efficient production with fewer interruptions and lower costs.
Use Cases
Anti-Static and ESD Prevention
Low humidity increases static buildup because dry air acts as an insulator, making electrostatic discharge (ESD) more likely. Maintaining 40–60% relative humidity helps dissipate electrical charges and significantly reduces ESD risk.
Prevent Condensation and Mold
By combining a professional ventilation system with the Condair DA adsorption dryer, it is possible to achieve optimal results in preventing condensation and mold growth.
Prevent Evaporative Losses
Organic materials have an internal moisture content and will lose moisture to the atmosphere when exposed to air with low humidity. Humidifiers are used to create an environment with the proper balance between the material’s internal moisture content and the air’s relative humidity.
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Vitra haus
Its distinctive stacked-house architecture is complemented by Condair steam humidifiers, which ensure clean and consistent indoor humidity.
Nordan, Wolsztyn (Poland)
Protected wood through optimal humidity The NorDan Group is one of the leading manufacturers of wooden windows and doors. High-pressure air humidification ensures quality at all stages of production at the Group's Wolsztyn site. The Polish site in Wolsztyn has been one of the NorDan Group's largest production facilities since 2006: over 200 members of staff produce 10.000 wooden windows there for Scandinavia and the United Kingdom each year. Stable processes and production conditions are enormously important for us. It is therefore essential to have constant, optimal humidity, explains the chief engineer, Maciej Sosiński.
Fritz Hansen, Rawicz (Poland)
The international design brand Republic of Fritz Hansen is famous for exclusive design classics such as the EggTM lounge chair or the 7TM chair series. With innovative craftsmanship and premium quality, the Danish company, founded in 1872, sets standards worldwide.
Argelith Bodenkeramik H. Bitter GmbH, Bad Essen (Germany)
Argelith Bodenkeramik H. Bitter GmbH (Bad Essen) is one of the world's leading companies as a manufacturer of high-quality industrial tiles. In order to reduce the high heat loads caused by the thermal processes of production, the company uses direct room air humidification.
Ashley Furniture Industries (Wi)
Ashley Furniture Industries, Inc. is the largest manufacturer of furniture in the world. Established in 1945, Ashley offers one of the industry's broadest product assortments to retail partners in 123 countries.
Batesville Casket Company
Batesville Casket Company is a manufacturer of caskets and cremation urns. The company is a subsidiary of Hillenbrand, Inc., and is headquartered in Batesville, Indiana.
AVEC American Veneer Edgebanding
American Veneer Edgebanding Company, Inc.,USA (A.V.E.C.),was established in Heath, Ohio, in 1997. A.V.E.C. distributes veneer edgebanding products especially to the North American wood working industry. Their modern, humidity controlled warehouse facility is conveniently located close the Columbus International Airport.
Munster Joinery
Munster Joinery was founded in 1973 and is among the largest manufacturers of energy efficient windows and doors in Europe.
Brighton Cabinetry, Inc.
Brighton Cabinetry, Inc. has been providing custom cabinetry to customers across the Midwest and along the East Coast for two decades.
Saint Joseph Chapel at Holy Cross
6 Square Cabinets LLC
6 Square's cabinets are sold nationally through a network of independent dealers that may design, sell, and install kitchen and bath projects. 6 Square builds cabinetry for homeowner's who are looking for quality that lasts, looks impressive, and fits comfortably within their price range.
Corruven Inc.
Corruven mission is to work with industry leaders worldwide to create game-changing solutions towards building a truly sustainable future. They are a technology company specializing in the manufacture of products for the architectural and packaging markets.
Viking Yachts Company
Viking prides itself on its renowned manufacturing capabilities. From the initial design to the finished product, Viking's highly regarded reputation is rooted in the company's commitment to produce 90 percent of the boat in-house. Except for components such as engines, transmissions, air conditioning units and electronics, virtually everything else is produced in-house by their talented workforce.
Pinetum Furniture
Condair has supplied and installed a JetSpray humidification system to Pinetum, a pine furniture manufacturer based in Wiltshire. 116 nozzles, which combine compressed air and water to produce a fine atomising spray, humidifying the company's timber store, machine shop and assembly areas, maintaining the humidity at 60% relative humidity. 525 litres of water are pumped into the atmosphere every hour around Pinetum's production facility, ensuring that the timber being worked and stored there remains in total equilibrium with its environment.
The Stage, Museum of Shakespeare
This new, permanent visitor experience in London will transport guests back to the 16th Century to follow in the footsteps of the world's most famous playwright through a series of immersive and interactive experiences.London's Curtain Playhouse was a cultural and social centre for the city during the life of Shakespeare. In 2025 it will be triumphantly reborn as the capital's newest and most dramatic cultural attraction: the Museum of Shakespeare.Condair RS steam humidifiers are maintaining the ideal indoor humidity for the preservation of the wooden floors and architecture in the venue.
Frequently asked questions
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