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Commercial Air Freshener vs. Industrial Air Freshener
Monday, September 23, 2024
air care
Commercial Air Freshener vs. Industrial Air Freshener
When you’re looking for odor solutions, you might start with store-bought air fresheners—the place most people would start. However, you quickly learn that there’s an extensive range of air care products—after all, needing a handheld air freshener is a lot different from needing a scent diffuser hooked up to your HVAC system. So, what system do you need based on your situation?
At State Chemical, we manufacture and distribute several different product groups of chemical solutions, and one of these groups is air care—including both commercial and industrial options. In the midst of an issue, figuring out what kind of solution you need can be difficult, and odors aren’t easy to ignore.
To help you determine what kind of odor solution you need, we will explain commercial versus industrial air care and their respective applications. After reading, you’ll know what variety of odor control your facility needs.
What is Commercial Odor Control?
Commercial odor control, also known as institutional odor control, is a method you would use in an indoor facility with mild-to-moderate odors. This type of solution is ideal for spaces like offices, retail stores, and hospitality venues. In addition to neutralizing unwanted odors, commercial air fresheners can also be used to add a pleasant ambience to an institutional facility, enhancing the customer experience.
These facilities might include schools, apartment buildings, hotels, hospitals, senior living facilities, event spaces, and fitness centers. Depending on the situation, you may use ambient scent diffusers, aerosols, gels, sprays, solids, or another option in these spaces.
What is Industrial Odor Control?
Meanwhile, industrial odor control is used for outdoor facilities with severe odors and can sometimes be used indoors in large facilities. Industrial facilities include manufacturers, wastewater treatment plants, food processing plants, and landfills.
In these situations, odors are so extreme that more intensive measures must be taken. In order to successfully control industrial odors, you will often use industrial deodorizers, deodorization systems, sprays, gels, solids, and other options depending on the situation.
Commercial Air Freshener Applications
When it comes to commercial air fresheners, the application possibilities are almost limitless. They can be used to treat odors, to add ambience, for fragrance consistency, for spot treatment, and more.
Suppose that you’re the manager of an animal shelter. With pets, there are smells from urine, fecal matter, animal dander, vomit, pet food, and more throughout the building. The last thing you want is for an animal to miss their chance to be adopted because visitors can’t stand to be in the building for more than ten minutes.
Here, you could use ready-to-use sprays for spot treatment, handheld odor eliminators, and ambient scent diffusers with a subtle fragrance. Consider whether you value consistent fragrancing or an as-needed odor solution.
Now, imagine that you’re the owner of a hotel. The lobby doesn’t smell bad per se, but it doesn’t have a consistently pleasant fragrance. You want people to walk into your hotel and think, “Wow, this is nice!” A consistent fragrance could help you accomplish this, but what are your options?
To add an ambient scent to a facility like this, use automatic scent diffusers. This will ensure fragrance consistency and allow you to build a brand scent.
In commercial facilities with mild-to-moderate odors, the commercial side of odor control offers an array of solutions for different situations. Consider your odor control and fragrancing goals, and you’ll be able to find the right product for you.
Industrial Air Freshener Applications
Industrial air fresheners have less leeway in their purpose; they are for severe odor control and severe odor control only.
Let’s say that you’re the operations manager of a wastewater treatment plant. Nearby neighborhoods have been filing nuisance complaints regarding the odors, and you’ve been tasked with finding a solution before the facility is fined. But this is wastewater; how do you deal with an odor problem of this magnitude?
Here, an industrial deodorization system can work wonders. For any outdoor industrial setting, an industrial deodorization system is the right choice. However, when it comes to indoor industrial settings, you have different options.
Imagine you work as head custodian for a school with a particularly odorous trash room. Cafeteria scraps, old packaging, expired food from the staff lounge, and more litter the room, collecting garbage juice and attracting flies. The smell is putrid—beyond a typical odor problem.
In a situation like this, you might pair an automated fragrance system with industrial deodorizers, such as a granular product to absorb liquid and deodorize at the source. Schools are not traditionally considered industrial, but since you have an area with more severe odors than the rest of the building, you may be able to treat this area as an industrial area.
If your space is industrial and has severe odors, industrial odor control is a good fit to solve your problem. However, even if you aren’t considered an industrial facility, some areas of your facility may have industrial-level odors. With industrial products safe for indoor use, this can benefit you significantly.
Learn About State Chemical Air Care Agreements
Determining what type of odor control you need can be tricky, but now that you know the differences between commercial and industrial air care, you’re prepared to make your decision. Continue learning about odor treatment by watching the video below on what an air care agreement with State Chemical involves.
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