Filter Media
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Filter media players step up in the fight against COVID-19, but questions about the long-term supply persist
“The U.S. has a strategic petroleum reserve. It has strategic military assets. Where are the strategic meltblown assets?” This was the question with which Forbes investment specialist William Baldwin closed …
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Bekaert shows its mettle in filtration
The story of Bekaert started in 1880 in Zwevegem, a smaller rural village in Belgium, where local farmers were faced with the perennial problem of cattle showing the stubborn habit …
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Energy savings at the forefront of nonwoven filter technology development
As Brad Kalil of INDA noted in his analysis of the market in the November/December 2019 issue of IFN (pages 38-39), the key drivers of growth in the nonwoven filter …
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![The main filter mechanisms of fiber material. (B) Filtration efficiency for particles with different diameters. (C) The main filtration effect based on particle size.](https://www.filtnews.com/wp-content/uploads/IFN-012020-TechTalk_Figure-335x186.jpg)
How fiber diameter & size affect filtration performance
There are three primary property considerations of fibers for filtration performance — the choice of fibers, the process of producing the media and the final application. When …
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FILTECH 2019: The media is the message …
Despite the vast scale, complexity and diversity of today’s filtration system installations, the simple filter media is the key to everything. Or the not so simple filter media, as became …