Excel Dryer

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Excel Dryer
Founded1963; 58 years ago (1963)
Headquarters357 Chestnut Street
East Longmeadow, Massachusetts,
U.S.
Key people
Denis Gagnon (President)[1]
Websitewww.exceldryer.com

Excel Dryer is a manufacturer of hand dryers, based in East Longmeadow, Massachusetts.

History[]

In the mid 1960s, They have created a first hand dryer from Excel is called a Stainless Steel Hands-On Hand Dryer (Model S/RS) before it was available for White and Chrome (76-W/R76-W and 76-C/R76-C)[citation needed]

In 1989, Excel Dryer have released the new Hands-Off model called HO-IL, HO-IW, and HO-IC for surface mounted and a year later, R76-IW, and R76-IC for recessed mounted.[citation needed]

In 1997, Denis Gagnon bought the company and realized that many people disliked conventional hand dryers for their long waiting time and as of the 2000s, Most Hand dryers appears to have less than 10% in public restrooms. “The main reason why you don’t see hand dryers in public restrooms is that people don’t like to use them.” Dennis Gagnon said.[citation needed] The former 3 Rocket Scientists including Sol Aisenberg, George Freedman, and Richard Pavelle have came to Excel Dryer for a collaboration with Invent Resources. In 2001, The first high speed hand dryer was invented called Xlerator. It dries hands in 10 seconds. It was created to reduce the time, money, and less than 80% than conventional dryers. [2]

In 2011, Excel Dryer has become a Top Level Industry Partner of the American Society of Interior Designers.[3] Excel Dryer's products have also been approved for LEED v4 credits and other green building standards.[4]

In 2015, Excel Dryer have released a new hand dryer model other than the Xlerator is called a ThinAir (TA-SB, or TA-ABS) and the Xlerator was modified with the New Controllers.[citation needed]

In 2018, Excel Dryer have released a hand dryer that it has unique design, has an patented sound technology, and can be installed on top of a sink called XLERATORsync.[5]

Gallery[]

  • The original high speed dryer from Excel Dryer Inc. since 2001 (XL-BW)

References[]

  1. ^ "Founder Biography - The man behind the machine". www.exceldryer.com. Retrieved 15 September 2016.
  2. ^ Staff, NPR (4 February 2013). "How One Company Reinvented The Hand Dryer". Retrieved 27 March 2016.
  3. ^ "Excel Dryer Becomes ASID Top Level Industry Partner". prweb. Retrieved 28 March 2016.
  4. ^ "Next Generation Green Restroom Design v2 | U.S. Green Building Council". www.usgbc.org. Retrieved 15 September 2016.
  5. ^ Stone, Julia (2018-09-14). "This Integrated Sink System is the Future of Green Restroom Design - gb&d". gb&d magazine. Retrieved 2021-03-28.
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