07/21/23

Background More than a decade ago, Farrington Oils, a leading producer of cold pressed rapeseed oil, installed the Amafilter® Versis® pressure leaf filter system at their plant, to remove impurities and clarify the oil. The system has proved to be highly effective, filtering 3-5% of undesirable particles and maintaining the quality of the final product. […]

05/24/23

The Challenge The customer needed to achieve two objectives: As an existing Amafilter® customer, they approached our team of experts for a filtration solution that would meet their filtration process requirements. The Solution The Amafilter® team advised the customer that to meet their objectives they would need to install three Versis® pressure leaf filter systems […]

12/14/22

THE CHALLENGEOur customer was looking to embark on a new commercial activity by using their cold-pressed rapeseed oil as biomass to the renewable fuel industry. To do this, they required a filtration solution that would provide them with a yearly production of 20 million litres of high quality cold pressed rapeseed oil. They were also […]

11/24/22

THE CHALLENGEOur customer collects and re-cycles leftover food from hotels and the retail trade which would normally be send to landfills or be thrown away. A key component of the filtration process is to filter and separate the solids and the PE from the fat contained in the leftover food. The customer needed to achieve […]

07/12/22

THE AMAFILTER® CRICKETFILTER® MAINTAINED HIGH PRODUCT QUALITY, REDUCED MAINTENANCE COSTS AND IMPROVED SAFETY THE CHALLENGEA leading sugar producer of free-flowing granulated sugar for the Food & Beverages industry wanted to improve one of the key steps in their filtration process, the pre-coating phase.Amafilter® were asked to advise on a filtration solution that would deliver the […]

03/15/22

ON-SITE LABORATORY TESTS SHOWED THAT THE CRICKETFILTER® WAS THE IDEAL SOLUTION TO IMPROVE THE CUSTOMER’S FILTRATION PROCESS EFFICIENCIES. BACKGROUNDA well recognised French manufacturer, our client has been in the chemical industry for over 100-years and has worked alongside amafilter® for eighteen years. Furthermore, they are a subsidiary of a large corporation, which allows them to […]

01/13/22

THE AMAFILTER® TEAM WORKED ALONGSIDE VILLAPANA SPA TO PROVIDE A FILTRATION SOLUTION THAT INCREASED PLANT EFFICIENCY, MAINTAINED THE QUALITY OF THE PRODUCT AND MADE THE PLANT MORE PROFITABLE. BACKGROUNDVillapana Spa is part of the Randi Group which was established over 50 years ago and is a global supplier of tartaric products to the wine sector. […]

11/09/21

THE AMAFILTER® TEAM WORKED CLOSELY WITH A COCOA BUTTER PRODUCER TO FIND A SOLUTION THAT WOULD REDUCE REPLACEMENT PARTS, LOWER MAINTENANCE COSTS AND IMPROVE PRODUCT QUALITY. THE CHALLENGEThe customer needed to improve their cocoa butter filtration process as the existing filtration system required daily interventions. The existing filters operated with paper filters which had to […]

09/14/21

THE AMAFILTER® TEAM WORKED CLOSELY WITH NICHE COCOA TO PROVIDE A FILTRATION SOLUTION THAT WOULD STREAMLINE PRODUCTION WHILE DELIVERING THEIR BEST QUALITY PRODUCT YET. BACKGROUNDNiche Cocoa produces high quality semi-finished cocoa products and confectionery for supply to the worldwide chocolate, ice cream and bakery industries.Semi-finished products include natural and deodorized cocoa butter, specialized cocoa liquor, […]

08/03/21

THE AMAFILTER® TEAM WORKED CLOSELY WITH A GELATINE PLANT TO FIND A FILTRATION SOLUTION THAT WOULD REDUCE DOWNTIME AND LOWER MAINTENANCE COSTS RESULTING IN A MORE EFFICIENT AND SAFER OPERATION. The Challenge The gelatine plant was operating an horizontal pressure filter leaf system for the filtration of think liquor gelatine. The horizontal pressure filters leaves […]

06/08/21

THE AMAFILTER® TEAM DESIGNED AND DEVELOPED A PLASTIC HOUSING WITH A PTS ELEMENT THAT SAFELY AND EFFICIENTLY REMOVES SOLIDS FROM THE WASTE ACID AFTER THE DESTRUCTION OF THE ASBESTOS FIBRES HAD TAKEN PLACE. BACKGROUNDThe Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate (EZK), commissioned a project to establish techniques that would make it possible to treat […]

05/07/21

AMAFILTER® SIGNIFICANTLY IMPROVES THE PLANT’S CRYSTALLISATION PROCESS INCREASING EFFICIENCY, REDUCING COSTS AND IMPROVING SUSTAINABILITY. BACKGROUNDOur Netherlands-based client produces 125-million litres of second-generation biodiesel per year, made from oils and waste fats.A key component of their process is the crystallisation process of the polyethylene within the oil. By crystallising the polyethylene until large crystals form, it […]

01/18/21

The Amafilter® team worked closely with the customer to significantly improve the customer’s salt bath filtration process, improve product quality, reduce maintenance costs, and lead to a more profitable operation. THE CHALLENGE Amafilter® were approached by one of their existing customers, a European leading producer of quality cheese products enjoyed world-wide, to assist them to […]

12/03/20

Learn more about how our extensive filtration solutions portfolio helped to improve the production of a renewable diesel refinery plant capable of converting recycled material into more than 275 million gallons of this eco-friendly fuel. BACKGROUND Our customer built an 18,000-barrel-per-day renewable diesel refinery next to their existing refinery infrastructure on the gulf coast to […]

11/10/20

Amafilter® provided the customer with a two vessel skid mounted ceramic cartridge filter system. Installation of the system reduced the solid content in the liquid sulphur to max.10 ppm, significantly increasing the production life of the sulphuric acid production units from 16 to 24 months, before any maintenance was required. This also resulted in a […]

09/29/20

The amafilter® team worked closely with Cerdia to find a filtration solution that would deliver Cerdia’s desired filtration levels and process automation efficiencies, resulting in a more efficient operation.

09/21/20

Amafilter® provided UK based Farrington Oils Ltd. with remote acccess to the PLC control system of their Versis® vertical pressure leaf filtration system to override and address production problems off-site.

08/03/20

FILTRATION GROUP ADOPT THE PERFECT MIX OF FILTRATION PRODUCTS TO IMPROVE THE EFFICIENCY AND REDUCE PRODUCTION COSTS AT THE CUSTOMER’S LIQUID SUGAR PROCESS PLANT

08/03/20

Amafilter® were selected as the liquid filtration solutions provider for a multiple refining process at Yelo’s UK plant and provided a safe and cost effective solution for Yelo’s edible oil application

07/27/20

Filtration Group worked closely with M&I Materials in the UK to significantly improve the efficiency of their pressure filter leaves process, resulting in a 12.5% reduction in batch filtration time.

07/27/20

To improve the efficiency and production of organic oil extraction at Terres du Sud, Filtration Group worked closely with the customer to design replacement parts that would deliver optimum results to their existing filtration system.