The soft drink industry uses city water as the main water source in the production of beverages. The variation of the chemical and organic characteristics on this water makes it difficult, if not impossible, to achieve the required consistent taste in the finished beverage from one production run to the next. Faced with the continuing need to reduce costs, a soft drink bottler in the UK turned to Eaton to evaluate their existing filtration system and make recommendations for improvements.

The existing filtration system used cartridges that frequently had to be changed, making the system very expensive to run. Tests with a series of Eaton’s cost effective LOFCLEAR™ Filter Bags installed in MAXILINE™ Multi-Bag Housings proved very effective. The bag filters provided the same or better quality water with better filtration efficiency than the existing cartridge filters, all along with longer service life.

Eaton demonstrated to the customer that the recommend bag filtration system could produce the same or better quality water than the existing cartridge filtration. Thanks to the now-reduced production costs, the new MAXILINE Filter Housings will have paid for themselves within eighteen months.