carbon impregnated filters

I don't want to raise a bunch of problems, but Carbon Impregnated filters and not really approved for use in food manufacturing.  There is a big push with all the food scares to bring manufacturing more into complacence.   Surprising what some people are using in their operation.  Can you imagine pieces of Teflon and carbon in your food.  It is hard to imagine, but it is used widely in industry.   Many filters have coatings to aid in dust release or filtration.  I sit here and wonder what else we are eating.

More repairs than innovation

Every once in a while it seems like everything breaks at once.  Well it is our tun this week. Not a whole lot of innovation, just fixin'.   We are however working on two new cartridge filters. One will double the air to cloth ratio based on a current design, but it can be taken apart for cleaning, or to replace individual elements of the filter that fail.  Kind of a cool idea but we will have to see where this one goes.  This type of filter is very expensive (over $350.00 each).  The concept is that we can replace the failed part of the filter saving cost, and being more sustainable by not putting the entire element into the trash. Not sure how this will be accepted by industry that always seems to want the fast fix.

Awesome Dude.....

It is fun figuring how to do some thing new.  It keeps work fun, and interesting.  Figuring out how to clean a sticky mess out of the inside of a filter has always been a huge challenge. I don't know how he did it but, "He did it!"   We were ready to stop doing this type of filter, but, a rabbit was pulled out of the hat, and he was able to cut the cleaning time by 33%.    Also figured out a way to dry these filters decreasing the dry time by 50%.  All of the sudden this filter is worth cleaning.  Awesome Dude !