Hydraulic, fuel, lubrication, and air system filters

Ashland, Virginia – Responding to increased market demand, Porvair Filtration Group – a global provider of high precision filtration and separation technology – has extended the manufacture of its last chance filters to its Ashland, Virginia facility.

 

Porvair, recently honored in the UK with the Queen’s Award for Enterprise in International Trade, is providing solutions to meet stringent aerospace standards – and its last chance filters help to prevent sudden, catastrophic failure by providing final system protection.

 

Effective filtration within aircraft equipment is vital to ensure that all systems are free from contaminants and to guarantee safety, long service life, reliability, and cost-effective operation in the most demanding situations.

 

Porvair’s Aerospace Market Manager Andy Cowan said: “After carefully investing in increased manufacturing capabilities at our Ashland facility last year, we have experienced major global interest in our last chance filters.

 

“It’s clear that the aerospace industry is increasingly responding to stronger safety and environmental demands, with these filters at the top of the list for providing heightened protection, and generating peace-of-mind that translates to happier operators and travelers.

 

“The innovative design of our last chance filters also ensures a long service life, increased efficiency and reliability in the most demanding situations.

 

Last chance filters are among the most process-critical elements that Porvair manufactures under strictly controlled conditions, providing critical point-of-use protection for contamination-sensitive components, and performing a complimentary role to main system filters.

 

While main system filters are very effective, there can still be high levels of particulate contamination generated within the fluid system. Secondary last chance filters trap and retain contamination such as machining chips, burrs, wear debris, and fluid breakdown products induced during operation or built in downstream of the main system filters.

 

To provide maximum protection, last chance filters are tailored specifically to the system’s operating and environmental conditions. They interface with customer systems and are supplied in a variety of forms including discs, unions, or as special assemblies that can be integrated into other components such as valves.

 

Porvair Filtration Group designs and manufactures specialist filtration components and assemblies for contamination control in hydraulic, fuel, lubrication, and air systems, with manufacturing sites in both the UK and USA.

 

Porvair’s UK operation is currently manufacturing key components for the Airbus A350 and Bombardier’s CSeries.  

 

Porvair Filtration Group will be exhibiting at the Paris Airshow in hall 2B, stand B31, from June15-19, 2015.

 

Source: Porvair Filtration