Our purpose

Whether you live in Cairo, Chicago or Copenhagen, there is an increasing influx of people to the big cities. Demographic changes and urbanisation across the globe put a strain on cities and their capacity to produce basic necessities such as drinking water.

With its unique porosity, Filtralite Pure and Clean filter media offers optimum conditions for water to flow through the filter bed in order to retain and adsorb more contaminants. This feature allows for larger volumes of water to be filtered through the same volume as contact area is increased. Water management facilities can thereby increase their output without having to rebuild and expand existing facilities simply by replacing the conventional filtering media with Filtralite.

Our products not only increase water output volumes, they also decrease operation costs. By replacing conventional sand filters with Filtralite filter media, you can expect to get your money back in less than 3 years.

Because Filtralite Pure and Clean filter media requires fewer backwashes, which means less energy and less water loss, which at the end of the day means more water out of your plant. This way, we ensure you get more out of the resources you already have.

As cities are gearing for the future, Filtralite Pure and Clean filter media is an innovative and premium filtering product tailored to meet tomorrow’s needs.

Filtralite filter media are used for a number of water treatment applications; such as drinking water treatment, wastewater treatment and on-site treatment of effluent water.

 

Research and Development

The development of Filtralite filter media is carried out in close cooperation with universities and research institutes both in Norway and worldwide. Many doctoral and master thesis, reports and papers have been written on various aspects of the use of Filtralite for drinking water and wastewater treatment.

 

Properties

Filtralite filter media is made by the burning of clay at about 1200º C, followed by crushing and sieving of the resulting expanded, clay pellets. The material has a very porous structure, and crushing exposes large surface area. Dry particle densities are in the range 500-1,600 kg/m³, and the aggregate size range is 0-20 mm. Filtralite materials are flexible and can be "tailor-made" for specific applications. The aggregates do not release any harmful substances and the acid solubility is minimal. Despite its low density and high porosity, Filtralite has high abrasion and impact resistance.