On Wednesday my boss forwarded me an email inquiry from Ricky at an offshore drilling company. His team was working on a deepwater oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. He asked us if we could help him build a portable filtration unit that could remove particulate down to 20...
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Stay up to date with the latest updates & information from PFP. We regularly post industry insights, informational content, and success stories.The Story of the Custom-Built Drum-Top Oil Filter Unit
Many people have asked about our custom-made drum-top filter unit. Why did we make it? What's the story behind it? How did we create it? Well, it all started when I contacted John, the managing service engineer at a large wind farm located in the mid-west. In order to...
Success Story: The Ultimate Solution for Industrial Machinery Lube Oil
Another busy Friday afternoon! I received a request for quote from Mike, a manager at an electrical connector manufacturer in Virginia. His company was producing electrical connectors for various customers in telecommunications, industrial automation, medical...
Success Story: Emergency Rental Filter Saves Manufacturer at Plastics Trade Show
It was early Wednesday morning when I received a call from a prospect named Tom. He found PFP on the Internet while searching for filter carts. He was working for a company in the mid-west that manufactures machinery for processing plastic and rubber products, such as...
How Dirty Diesel Fuel Can Endanger Lives at a Hospital
How can dirty fuel endanger lives at a hospital? Well, if there is a power outage, how does the hospital keep its equipment running in case of an emergency? Like any other critical operation, they use emergency power systems such as back-up generators in conjunction...
How We Helped an Ethanol Fuel Terminal to Save Their Stock
Have you ever had an emergency situation with contaminated fuel oil? We were recently contacted by a manager at a fuel terminal company in the northeast that receives, stores, and ships fuel for petroleum refineries and pipeline companies. All of a sudden they found...
How We Removed Bacteria and Metal from Water at a Funeral Home
Have you ever had contaminated well-water at your home? How about "hard" public city water at the office? Did you know that there are alternative ways to properly condition and filter your water supply? At a recent school fund-raiser, I ran into an owner of a local...
Sean Saves the Coast Guard… wait, what?
On 8:00 AM one Friday morning I got a call from the owner of a company (let's call him Joe) that works mainly with environmental clean-ups on the east coast. He was looking to rent a filter cart to service 1,500 gallons of lubricating oil on a Coast Guard vessel. Joe...
Success Story: Filtering Deionized Water for a National Laboratory
(Note: This is part 1 of a 2-part series.) Picture this... A large national laboratory had just finished fabricating a special magnet system, but there was a lot of debris remaining after the process. This particular lab was circulating deionized water (also known as...
How to Filter 75,000 barrels of Jet-A Fuel
Have you ever had a contaminated jet fuel tank? One of my recent customers, a jet fuel storage facility (liquid terminal) had a fuel tank that contained 75,000 barrels of contaminated jet-A fuel. Our initial testing showed high amounts of particulate and significant...
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