Compressors are pretty much everywhere in industry today—you can’t really avoid them if you’re in energy, manufacturing, HVAC, or even food processing. These machines do one basic thing: they take air or gas, squeeze it down to raise the pressure, and that makes a ton of processes possible that we’d struggle with otherwise. As factories…

Compressors are the unsung heroes in so many parts of life and work these days—they take regular air or gas and squeeze it down to build pressure, making all kinds of things possible that we’d struggle with otherwise. You find them powering tools on construction sites, keeping factories humming along, running the AC in big…