DISTRIBUTOR-FIRST SUPPLY PARTNER · SINCE 1999 BRAND · GREAT LAKES AIR
SPC Company
← All brands
Great Lakes Air logo

Great Lakes Air

US-made air dryers from Michigan, with filters to match, the treatment brand SPC specs and backs.

Made in Michigan. Built to spec.

Preferred Partner USA engineeredDirectMade in USAISO 8573-1 Class 1
Great Lakes Air product
/ Great Lakes Air brand

Made in Michigan. Built to spec.

Great Lakes Air has manufactured compressed air treatment equipment in Westland, Michigan since 1983, founded on a straightforward premise: that declining quality in the US compressed air industry was a problem worth fixing from the ground up. Its dryers are built at that Michigan facility, the same one it has operated since founding.

Read the full story

The product line is deliberately complete: refrigerated drying from 10 to 13,500 SCFM, regenerative desiccant drying down to −100°F pressure dew point, matched filter housings, and a PSA nitrogen generator line. That breadth means a plant engineer can source a full air treatment package from one brand on one purchase order. Great Lakes Air backed its quality claim with a 5-year warranty on standard refrigerated dryers, at a time when 1-year coverage was considered long. The company says that warranty covers the entire dryer except maintenance items, and that it has been supported since 1983. Its brochures now describe a 5-2-1 warranty on regenerative and high-inlet-temperature dryers.

1983 In business since
Westland, Michigan USA Manufacturing location
5 years on standard dryers Refrigerated dryer warranty
10–13,500 SCFM SCFM range
Made in USAISO 8573-1 Class 15-year warranty
Great Lakes Air — brand values
/ What you get

The outcomes, not the spec sheet

Made in USA −100°F dew point 10–13,500 SCFM range Single-brand air treatment
/ The SPC channel

Why source Great Lakes Air through SPC Company?

SPC's primary dryer brand, specced to the application

Great Lakes Air is the dryer brand SPC reaches for first.

Full treatment package from one brand

Refrigerated dryer, desiccant dryer, filter housings, and nitrogen generator come from one brand.

US-made provenance, documented

Made-in-USA is a requirement on an increasing number of government, defense, and infrastructure contracts.

/ Featured products

The Great Lakes Air lineup

scroll →
Desiccant Dryer — Regenerative Great Lakes Air Desiccant Dryer — Regenerative
Particulate Filter Great Lakes Air Particulate Filter
PSA Nitrogen Generator — Standard Great Lakes Air PSA Nitrogen Generator — Standard
Refrigerated Dryer Great Lakes Air Refrigerated Dryer
/ Where it fits

Built for the way you run

Industries the Great Lakes Air line is specified into.
/ Find your fit

Not sure which Great Lakes Air line?

Answer a couple of quick questions and we'll point you to the right Great Lakes Air line.
Flow rate

GRN non-cycling refrigerated dryers cover 10–3,000 SCFM for general plant air. High-capacity GMNF/GMNX steps up to 13,500 SCFM for large central-plant systems. GPS heatless desiccant covers 25–3,000 SCFM; GEH and GBS heated and blower-purge cover 100–25,000 SCFM for continuous high-flow instrument-air duty.

Required pressure dew point

A +38°F pressure dew point for general plant air calls for a GRN refrigerated dryer. Applications needing −40°F (instrument air) or −100°F (critical process air) move to the GPS heatless or GEH/GBS desiccant lines respectively.

Line pressure

Standard lines to 150 PSIG work with the GRN/GPS base series. Systems running to 650 PSIG step to the GHRN high-pressure refrigerated dryer.

Inlet air temperature

Standard refrigerated dryers are rated to 100°F inlet. If the compressor room or after-cooler delivers hotter air, the EDR high-inlet-temp series is rated for inlet air up to 180°F.

/ Resource vault

Great Lakes Air resources & guides

Great Lakes Air's own catalogs, plus the SPC guides for the lines they carry.
/ On the SPC site

Complete the connection

Quoting Great Lakes Air?

Tell us the spec and the account and we will come back with the right line, sourced through the distribution network.

Request a Quote