Infrared Driers Drying of water and water-based lacquers requires a lot of heat energy to remove water. Hence, the line speeds of water-based coatings were few meters per min. Trasy Enterprises developed this new technique in 1999; It uses Infrared energy created by LPG & by directly drying the coating. It saves a lot of energy & gives four times more line speeds. Now, this process of drying is used for wide web widths of 120” to as narrow as 4” web widths.