Wedge Wire Filters Reduce Waste at Whitman Laboratories

Whitman Laboratories Ltd — a centre of manufacturing excellence for the Estee Lauder Group of Companies — is making substantial cost savings since installing a number of Axium Process’ compact, wedge wire filters, reducing downtime and recovering up to 6 kg of high value skin care product previously wasted per batch, per day.

The company traditionally used filter socks during its batch manufacturing of skin care products, which required changing at the end of every batch, resulting in considerable wastage of expensive product and costly downtime. Axium’s range of 316L Pure-Screen filters, which are being widely used throughout the pharmaceutical, food, beverage, dairy and cosmetic industries, require minimal maintenance and are quick and simple to maintain as they have no moving parts and do not require tools for access or cleaning. 

The filters, which can be fabricated to customer requirements, are available with interchangeable wedge-wire filter elements ranging from 25 to 6000 µm as standard and are suitable for backflushing, CIP and SIP.

Axium Process Ltd, +44 1792 883 882, info@axiumprocess.com, www.axiumprocess.com.