We’re Expanding!

Things are still a little tough all over, but at Dynamic Filtration, we’re lucky enough to be so busy that we need to expand our operation.  Right now, we are planning to add 7,500 sq. ft. to our existing 8,500 sq. ft. Waterloo, Ontario building. Up until now, we have had to squeeze both our production and storage in the same area, but with the upgrade both will have dedicated areas. This will allow us to manufacture and supply more inlet filters, and filter systems for compressors and blower units. It will also make our filter recovery services more efficient and responsive to our customers.

All of this growth is coming a critical moment in our industry, because we’ve really seen a boom in our work with filtration systems for vacuum trucks. More and more people are learning the incredible benefits of vacuum trucks for a wide variety of uses, including using vacuum trucks and our filters to install telephone poles without disturbing and existing wires. Not exactly, the first thing you think of when you think of a vacuum truck, but it is a perfect example of how wide a reach the industry now has.

As the expansion progresses we will be posting updates and pictures to the blog, so keep checking back!

New Website, Same Great Products and Service

Everyone at Dynamic Filtration is excited about our brand new website! Now it is easier than ever to learn about all our amazing products and services.  Each of our elements and filters can be found in their own unique sections that are filled with pictures and every specification you could possible need to make the right filtration choices.   We really wanted a website that matched our commitment to manufacturing the best air and liquid filter products on the market.  You can see, search, and research all of our filter elements (Moulded, Sewn End), Inlet Filters (Panel, Canister), Dust Collectors, and EDM Filter Elements. In addition, the site allows easy access to all of our social media accounts, so you can stay up to date on our newest products, projects, and all the latest industrial filtration news.

Please take a few minutes out of your busy day, and check out our new website. As always we’d love to hear what you think, so contact us with any suggestion or just to tell us “nice job!”

The 11th World Filtration Congress Does Not Disappoint

Good things come to those who wait.  And this year’s 11^th WorldFiltration Congress, an event that occurs only once every four years, was the perfect example of this. Taking place this past April 16-20 in Graz, Austria, WFC 11 welcomed more than 1,800 participants and included 340 technical presentations.  50 countries and 100 exhibitors from the worldwide filtration and separation industry were represented, and some fascinating short courses were offered to those in attendance.  

Topics covered included solid-liquid separation by vacuum, pressure and centrifugal filtration, cartridge and depth filter, gravity and centrifugal sedimentation, hydrocyclones, flotation, and absorption.  Everything from the basic fundamentals to purification and the use of surfactants and filter aids was discussed.

On the filtration front, experts spoke about all aspects of aerosol filtration and separation, air filtration, and gas separations, including high temperature separations and emission control.  

The short course offerings were invaluable, including one entitled “The Solid-Liquid Separation Process,” which presented information on membranes, filtration principles, cake filters, computer software, and more.  This was taught by Professor Richard Wakeman and Dr. Steve Tarleton, both of Great Britain.  Experts from the U.S and Taiwan taught a course on “Membrane Filtration and Separation,” while two German authorities presented the “Centrifuges for Solid-Liquid, Liquid-Liquid, and 3-Phase Separation” course.  

The next WFC will occur in Taipei in 2016, and industry professionals are already getting excited. 

Growth and Knowledge at the 25th Annual AFS

This week from June 4-7 the AFS conference will be taking place in Boca Raton, FL, and will be celebrating its 25^th year.  We at Dynamic Filtration are excited to hear about this annual event, which will include an array of interesting topics, many of which are at the core of our focus and our strengths.  

Four days will be jam-packed with informational sessions led by leaders in the industry.  On June 5, Wilson Poon will speak about “Filtration Performance of Clean and Realworld Loaded Filters Under Humid Conditions.” This is an especially noteworthy topic for us, as our filters can be used within all types of environments.  Our range of products, all made of the highest quality, stand up to humidity and other conditions, and we’re certain that Mr. Poon’s talk will prove relevant.  

Also on June 5, Richard Nixdorf will lead a discussion on “Emerging Filtration Media,” a topic we believe is of great importance.  Never ones to rest on past success, we are always looking at the latest advances in technology.  There are new and exciting trends emerging daily, and we believe it’s important to stay on top of them.  

For more information on the 25^th annual AFS conference, visit www.afssociety.org/spring2012/sessions.

Techtextil: North America’s Textile Show

The biggest weekend in the North American textile and nonwoven industry happened this past April, in Atlanta, GA: the Techtextil 2012 trade show, showcasing the manufacturers and industries that keep the textile market one of the strongest in the region. As you know, Dynamic Filtration is focused in one area of this industry: industrial filtration for air and liquid particles, including areas like vacuum trucks, manufacturing filtration, and compressors. Techtextil 2012 covered the widest possible swath of textile uses, from advanced clothing, to building materials, to packaging materials, and of course, filtration. The common thread running through each of these applications? Innovation.

Techtextil’s website features a useful overview of just how extensive the range of exhibitors and attendees ran, in terms of industry, at this page. Looking at that list, Dynamic Filtration’s products reside most strongly in two areas: “Indutech,” and “Geotech.” These two product families cover our industrial filtration products, as well as our extensive work with vacuum truck operators, in waste disposal, municipal work, and environmental cleanup. This last sector places us squarely in one more of Techtextil’s industry designations, “Oekotech,” the branch of textiles dealing with environmental concerns. Our blog readers and Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn followers are well-versed in the work vacuum trucks do to help alleviate environmental catastrophes.

Those are the types of jobs where filtration is most important, to keep machinery running cleanly and effectively. For more information, be sure to visit our site: http://www.dynamicfiltration.ca.

FABTECH Canada 2012 Recap

It doesn’t matter what industry you’re in - Canada’s Society of Manufacturing Engineers is probably relevant to you. The same goes for their annual FABTECH conferences, and FABTECH Canada 2012 was no exception. In the filtration business, there are a lot of fields of interest to us: textiles, woven and nonwoven, metal stamping and forming (for filter housings), and of course, new products and areas where our filters might be used. FABTECH Canada provided a little bit of everything.

What were some of the highlights? We work a lot with the welding industry, on, for instance, fume extractors. As you’ll see if you scroll down this page of new products on display at the, there were some new welding helmets from AntecTrade – another type of product that we supply filters for (though not that specific line). FABTECH also kept their Facebook page up-to-date with pictures throughout the event, and you can see them all here: http://www.facebook.com/FABTECH.Canada. All in all, it was another rousing success for SME and FABTECH!

A “Can-Do” Attitude: Dynamic Filtration and CANDU Reactors

CANDU6 Reactor Face

Ask the average person on the street, and they probably couldn’t tell you much about how a nuclear power plant actually works. They might know that uranium is typically used as fuel, they’ve probably heard terms like “enrichment” (and not necessarily in the best context), and some might even be able to tell you that water is typically used as a cooling agent once the fuel is spent. Even just a simple, passing awareness like that, is enough to lend itself to a discussion of Dynamic Filtration’s work with Canada’s CANDU nuclear reactors.

CANDU is an acronym, short for Canada Deuterium-Uranium: Canada, for the country of origin; deuterium, for the moderating agent (more than that later), and uranium, for the fuel. Deuterium, for the uninitiated, is a “heavy isotope” of hydrogen, meaning it possesses a neutron, while standard hydrogen has none. And that’s about as close as we’ll get to a rehash of your high school physics class (which may have have already been too close, for some people). The purpose of using deuterium, which, when substituted for hydrogen, creates “heavy water,” is to maintain the potency of the uranium fuel, lessening the absorption of neutrons by the water and therefore increasing the amount of time that the fission reaction will occur.

This is where the term “enrichment” comes into play, as well. In a “light water” reactor, the water absorbs too many neutrons, and natural uranium must be enriched to increase its levels of Uranium-235. Enrich it to 5%, and you have useful uranium for fuel. Enrich it to 90%, and you’ve got a nuclear weapon, and lot of new enemies. Of course, enrichment facilities can be used to achieve either of these ends – and are expensive, to boot. Since the CANDU reactor doesn’t require enriched uranium, this whole concern is irrelevant.

Where does Dynamic Filtration enter the picture? As you might imagine, that heavy water needs to be pure to successfully facilitate the nuclear reaction – 99.75% pure, in fact. Dynamic Filtration’s filters keep the incoming water contaminant-free, and the outgoing, used water free of any foreign materials so that it may be disposed of properly.

Be sure to contact us at Dynamic Filtration with any further questions!