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Purolator Liquid Process is a member of the Purolator Advanced Filtration Group (PAFG) of CLARCOR.

CLARCOR is a global supplier of filtration products and services with a worldwide customer base, superb product quality, leading brands, an extensive distribution network, the industry's broadest product line, and its largest sales force.

Purolator Advanced Filtration is comprised of five divisions, and if you scroll down this page you can read brief descriptions of each, beginning with the Liquid Process Division, and link to specific websites.

Purolator Liquid Process - Located in Greensboro, NC and Sacramento, CA.                       
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Purolator Liquid Process manufactures filter cartridges for process industries including chemical processing, food & beverage, pharmaceutical, paint & coatings, industrial, water, metal finishing,
electronics, polymer and power generation. Major product offerings are:

Bag Filters • Felt Construction Bag Filters • Mesh Construction Bag Filters Disposable Filter Cartridges • Melt Blown Depth Cartridges • String Wound Depth Cartridges • Pleated Surface Filter Cartridges Depth Filter Media • Precision Depth Filter Sheets • Depth Filter Modules Cleanable Filters • Cleanable Stainless Steel Elements • Cleanable Baskets Filter Housings • Liquid Bag Filter Housings • Liquid Cartridge Housings Product Trade Names: • PUROCEPT™ Multi-Zone Melt Blown  Cartridges • ACCU-CLEAR™ Pleated Cartridges • AQUA-CLEAR CV™ Pleated Cartridges • OMNI-CLEAR™ Pleated Cartridges • POLY-CLEAR™ Pleated Cartridges • EPIC™ C Melt Blown Filter Cartridges • EPIC™ II Melt Blown Filter Cartridges • PURE-CLEAR™ Precision Wound Cartridges • CARBONEX™ CEW, CEP, and CW Precision    Wound Cartridges • DYNA-CLEAR™ F Felt Bags • DYNA-CLEAR™ M Mesh Bags • DEPTH-CLEAR™ Filter Sheets and Modules • POROMET® 316 Stainless Steel Filter Elements • POROPLATE® 316 Stainless Steel  Cleanable Baskets

Greensboro, NC Facility

Sacramento, CA Facility

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Purolator Facet manufactures and designs filters, elements, indicators, switches, scavenge lube oil kits, cabin air filters, and acoustic media for the aerospace and industrial hydraulic markets.

Cleanable stainless steel elements, self-cleaning filters, fluidizing media, filter septa tubes and high temperature gas filters are manufactured for use in chemical processing, power generation, and industrial applications.

In addition, Purolator Facet offers diffusion bonded (sintered) sand control screens for oil well completion.

Specialized Dahl valves are custom designed for industrial and marine applications.

Purolator Facet specializes in custom designed filtration for OEM applications.

Product Trade Names:
• AXI-FLOW® air flow cleaner
• DAHL® manually operated valves, manifolds,
• METALEDGE® wire wound filter elements and assemblies
• MICRODELTA® differential pressure indication devices
• MICROFIL® impregnated composite fiber pleated filter media
• MICROLOX® sintered bronze porous media and filters
• MICROMESH® woven wire cloth porous media and filters
• MICROPLEAT® impregnated cellulose pleated filters
• POROBON® porous plastic filter media
• POROFELT® diffusion bonded fiber metal felt porous media and filters
• POROLOY® diffusion bonded wire porous media and filters
• POROMAX® sand control screens
• POROMESH® diffusion bonded wire cloth porous media and filters
• POROMET® stainless steel filters and elements
• POROPLATE® diffusion bonded wire cloth laminates and composites
• POROPLUS® sand control screens
• ZENITH® fluid filters of the surface filtration type
• MICRODEPTH™ impregnated composite fiber porous depth media and filters
• POROGUARD™ diffusion bonded wound wire absolute rated porous media and filters
• POROSTRAND™ diffusion bonded wound wire porous media and filters

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Facet International -Operations in Tulsa, OK and Stilwell, OK (USA);
France; Germany; Holland; Italy; Spain; UK (www.facetusa.com)
Facet is the world's technological leader in advanced filtration and separation products and systems serving a variety of customers in the aviation, marine, petrochemical, power generation and general industrial markets.

Aviation - Since the development of the first aviation fuel coalescer in 1943, Facet has been at the forefront of aviation fuel handling. Evidence the number of "firsts" in the aviation industry including the two-stage filter separator; Posi-stop fuel monitor; CIF cartridge; and API 1581, Fourth Edition, Category M-100 cartridges, just to name a few. And, Facet's influence extends worldwide to the world's largest airports from California, to Florida and to London, Korea, and Tokyo. Facet manufactures a complete line of products for the aviation industry to ensure that clean, dry fuel is provided every step of the way -- from the refinery to the wing tip. Environmental - As the world leader in coalescing plate technology, Facet has the answer to your oil/water separation needs. The secret is our Multiple Angle Coalescing Media - or coalescing plates - which utilize the difference in specific gravity.

Tulsa, OK Facilty (offices/warehouse)

Stillwell, OK Facility (manufacturing)

Industrial -
Facet provides a complete line of filtration/separation equipment for processing industrial fluids, machine tool coolant, and oil/water and air/gas mixtures. Products include filtration and separation of two immiscible liquids, as well as filtration and separation of liquids from air/gas.

Of particular interest in the Industrial marketplace is Facet's patented coalescing plate technology which allows for extremely efficient oil/water separation without the use of consumables such as filter elements, coalescing pads, or absorbents.

Power Generation -
Facet offers a complete line of filters, coalescers and separators to assure the highest quality of lube oils, transformer oils and gas turbine fuels.

Petrochemical -
In the petrochemical market, Facet meets the needs of the chemical and oil refining industries with an extensive line of filtration and oil/water separation products.

Our products are specified for major processing plants, and we supply refineries worldwide with many types of filtration products. With a wide range of proven materials used in the construction of our elements, Facet offers products that are compatible with most applications and service requirements.

Marine -
Using expertise gained in refineries, petrochemical facilities and in the handling of aviation fuels, Facet developed its first IMO approved bilge water treatment package over 25 years ago.

Military -
Ever since World War II when the U.S. Department of the Navy requested that the Warner Lewis Company design the first aviation fuel water coalescer, the military has depended on Facet's fuel handling expertise. Today, Facet supplies the U.S. military with fuel, lube oil and oil/water separation/filtration equipment around the world on land, sea, and in the air:

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Purolator EFP - located in Tulsa, OK, Houston, TX, Shelby, NC,
St. Catherines, Ontario CANADA, and Dalton, GA (www.purolator-efp.com)
Purolator EFP is the market leader and most comprehensive supplier of polymer filtration products to the industry. We are also a leader in the design, engineering, and manufacturing of specialty wire cloth parts for the automotive, electronics, and consumer markets.

Products offered include:

• Polymer Extruder and Pack Screens...Single and multiple-layer extruder and pack screens precisely matched to each customer's filtration specifications.
• Spot Weld Packs...Screens are resistance welded together at precise points, avoiding disturbance of polymer flow.
• Custom Fabrication...Full line capability to design, test, and manufacture specialized parts.
• Framed Packs...Framed packs utilize a seamless frame - typically of aluminum, copper, or stainless steel - to contain a specific filter pack combination.
• Extended Area Screen Packs...Extended area screen packs are manufactured with multiple layers of precision-woven wire cloth and/or non-woven fiber metal felt, pleated to provide greater surface area than a flat screen pack.
• Cylinders, Top Hats, and Conical-Style Screens and Filters...Purolator EFP manufactures all sizes and shapes of screens and filters, from single-layer to sophisticated multi-layer, low micron-rated filters.
• Shattered Metal Filter Media...Purolator EFP is the exclusive North American distributor of shattered metal filter media produced by North American Hoganas for removing gels from t he polymer extrusion process.
• Mott sintered Metal Powder Filters...Purolator EFP is the exclusive North American distributor of sintered powder products manufactured by Mott.
• Air Quench Filter Media...The Purolator EFP Engineered Filtration Products group supplies air quench filter media to improve synthetic fiber spinning performance. This media is specifically tailored to meet the needs of each application and is available in plain or sintered wire cloth as well as sintered metal powder.

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Martin Kurz & Company, Inc. - located in Mineola, NY (www.mkicorp.com)
Since 1970 Martin Kurz & Co., Inc. has been manufacturing high quality diffusion-bonded specialty materials such as Dynapore® sintered wire mesh laminates, porous powder metals, and Foil-Mesh™ laminates. MKI offers a wide range of standard materials for filtration and fluidization. MKI also offers SWM™ filter elements with a variety of end-fitting configurations, and filtration ratings from 2 to 100 microns.

DYNAPORE® Porous Metal Products

MKI's Dynapore® diffusion-bonded products comprise porous metals such as sintered wire mesh, multi-layer mesh laminates, powder metal, and non-woven fiber metal felt; as well as non-porous structures such as our Foil-Mesh™ materials, or custom laminates of metal foils with reticulated metal foams.

Dynapore® products are available as-produced in standard size sheets, or fabricated into cylinders, cones or other shapes with welded fittings, flanges, or connectors. For certain applications such as filtration or fluidization, standard formulations have been developed with specific uniform pore sizes or controlled permeability.

DYNAPORE® Filter Plate Laminates...The Ideal Filtration Media
TWM™, BWM™, and "Perf Plate" filtration media are an extremely useful class of diffusion-bonded laminates that feature substantial mechanical strength and precise filtration characteristics. These materials are typically used in filter plate assemblies for both chemical and pharmaceutical filtration

MPP™ "Micro-Perforated Plate"
The low cost alternative to expensive photo-etched media.

DYNAPORE® Fluidizing Media for Bulk Powder Handling and Processing
The Ideal Choice for Fluidized Material Handling

LFM™, HFM™, and PCM™ controlled permeability media is the superior choice for your fluidized material handling needs. Utilizing precision diffusion-bonding (sintering) technology,

LWD™ Stainless Steel Filter Discs
Dynapore® porous metal laminates are constructed of one or more layers of carefully selected stainless steel wire mesh, laminated by precision sintering (diffusion bonding) and calendering. Sintering utilizes molecular diffusion to produce homogeneous metal bonds at each point of metal contact, including the wire crossover points within individual layers, as well as the contact points between each layer. The resultant monolithic structure is permanently bonded and has highly uniform porosity.

SWM™ Sintered Wire Mesh Filter Elements
SWM™ filters were developed to replace poorly performing sintered porous metal, wedge-wire, string wound and other types of cartridges. In many instances, flow rates may be dramatically improved without compromising filtration efficiency. In other instances, frequency of downtime for element cleaning and replacement may be sharply reduced, resulting in savings which can far outweigh initial retrofit costs.

SPM™ Maximum Performance Sintered Porous Metals
MKI produces media equivalent to conventional pre-compressed porous metals, but with a proprietary compaction procedure which does not require the use of any binders whatsoever. Our "C"-Series porous metals are identical to industry standard materials, including 40, 20, 10, 5, 2, 1, 0.5 and 0.2 micron grades, but they are produced without any risk of carburization or susceptibility to intergranular attack. If you simply want a direct exact replacement of an existing conventional medium, our "C"-Series will do the job!

SFM™ Sintered Non-Woven Fiber Metal Felt
Superior Quality SFM™ Sintered Fiber Metal, The Ideal Choice for Depth Filtration

MKI's SFM™ sintered non-woven fiber metal felts are ideal for applications requiring depth media. While some filtration systems may employ periodic onstream backwashing to remove contaminant buildup, the demands of other applications require maximum on stream life between cleanings. This is particularly true in the filtration of viscous molten plastics, from monomers to polymers, where backwash is impractical and downtime very costly. Our SFM™ media are the classic choice for pleated tubular polymer candle filters and high pressure leaf discs.

FUEL CELLS
Dynapore® porous metal laminates have found successful application in the emerging fuel cell technology market in the thermal management, flow distribution, membrane support and current collection components of the fuel cell stack. Dynapore® materials are an attractive alternative to traditional fuel cell stack materials due to Dynapore®'s unique set of properties.

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