Transform Your Plastic Manufacturing With Tekleen Filters.

Are you tired of constantly maintaining machines in your plastic manufacturing process? Dust, pollen, algae, plastic particles, and pipe scales can cause big issues for your cooling towers, heat exchangers, and chillers.

How?

These contaminants can lower your machine’s cooling efficiency, harm your product quality, and shorten the machinery’s life. But we, Purple Engineering, as Tekleen’s Australian distributor, have the perfect solution for you. It is Tekleen’s self-cleaning filter. In this article, we will explore what is this self-cleaning filter system?

What benefits does it offer?

And we will share a great experience one of Tekleen’s clients had with this filtration system recently.

Why choose self-cleaning filtration?

If you are in the plastic industry, you already know how often cooling tower water gets pollutants in it. These pollutants flow through heat exchangers and chillers. This reduces the system’s cooling ability. Later your extruders, moulding machines, moulds, and compressors might start to heat up. Slowly, you are starting to risk product quality and machinery. But now you can apply a great solution from Tekleen and get away from all of it. Tekleen self-cleaning water filters are here to solve the dirty cooling water issue. These filters work using line pressure. They clean themselves when there is a pressure difference and finish cleaning in seconds without stopping the flow. And they are small and fit in many industrial uses.

Tekleen filters boost efficiency at Hoffer Plastics

Hoffer Plastics Corporation is in South Elgin, IL. It has a huge 365,000-square-foot climate-controlled and self-powered facility. It serves markets like packaging, commercial industrial, automotive, and appliances. Hoffer Plastics follows the “Lean manufacturing” principle. It maintains high productivity, values its employees, and is environmentally responsible.

Challenges Faced

Before they came to use Tekleen filters, Hoffer Plastics had big issues with their filtration systems. They had to daily maintain the old bag filters and there was higher water consumption. Hoffer Plastics soon understood this was an inefficient process. It increased their costs and raised environmental concerns. So, they needed a solution to improve filtration, use less water, and reduce maintenance.

The Tekleen solution

Hoffer Plastics chose Tekleen filters. Tekleen self-cleaning filters use less water than other methods. And they are made of stainless steel, not enameled surfaces. They clean chilled water in closed-loop systems for plastic processing and tower water for cooling hydraulic oil. Hoffer Plastics installed the first Tekleen filter in January 2012, and since then, they have added more Tekleen filters, including models ABW8-LP, ABW4-LP, and ABW4-XLP. These 4 and 8-inch filters work in the tower and chilled water systems. The tower water filter handles 1125 gpm at 70 psi with a 100-micron screen. The chiller filter handles 340 gpm at 72 psi with a 50-micron screen.

Results and achievements

The results were amazing. Water savings were significant. And since the Tekleen filters have the automatic cleaning feature, Hoffer Plastic does not need to maintain them daily. So, they can focus on their main work and increase the operational uptime. Tekleen filters even earned Hoffer Plastic the 2015 Governor’s Sustainability Award. They were recognized for energy efficiency, waste reduction, pollution prevention, and environmental programs. Reliable filtration improved heat transfer efficiency, reduced energy use, and ensured consistent production cycles.

Conclusion

Have you ever thought if you could run your extruders, molding machines, molds, and compressors smoothly without overheating? With Tekleen filters you can achieve this dream. We, Purple Engineering, as Tekleen’s only Australian distributor, offer you the perfect solution you have been looking for years. Since these compact and efficient filters do not have a limited use, you can use them for any industrial purpose.

Say goodbye to unscheduled maintenance shutdowns and production losses. Tekleen filters, which you are getting from Purple Engineering, Tekleen’s Australian distributor, give you a reliable and cost-effective solution to keep your cooling systems clean and efficient.