Heimbach Filtration – tailor - made solutions

Food Grade Filtration Products.Naturally from Heimbach.

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Your Performance is Our Impetus

In the food industry, the demands for cleanliness and product reliability

are exceedingly high. Heimbach Filtration helps you prevent unpleasant

surprises. With us you comply with all requirements of food production.

Head of Production: Ralf Gorissen

As long-standing experts in the field of filtration we cover the entire production chain from

product development to rolled goods manufacture and filter bag conversion: You benefit from our

comprehensive application technology know-how and are supported by an innovative and creative

team of engineers. Try us and experience for yourself: Heimbach will find a tailor-made solution

for your specific demands – methodically sound, technically experienced, thorough and extremely

engaged.

Producing according to HACCP rules and standards means that all critical

points in a production process are identified and suitable measures taken to

ensure the level of hygiene and cleanliness demanded.

Specific Solutions for the Food Industry

The whole is more than the sum of its parts. Of course, the food compliance

of our products was confirmed by an independent research institute. The filter

media can safely be used up to a temperature of 250 °C (482 °F).

Head of Research and Development: Dr. Bert Gillessen

We closely cooperate with leading research institutes:

• European Consortium for Filtration Technology (University of Karlsruhe)

• Deutsches Textilforschungszentrum Nord-West e. V. (DTNW), Krefeld

• institute of Energy and Environmental Technology (iUTA), Duisburg

• University of Applied Sciences, Krefeld

• institut fuer Textiltechnik (iTA), RWTh Aachen

• institute of Textile Machinery and high Performance Material (iTM),

Technical University of Dresden

• institute of Textile Chemistry and Chemical Fibers (iTCF), Denkendorf

• Fraunhofer institute for industrial Mathematics (iTWM), Kaiserslautern

• Saechsisches Textilforschungsinstitut e. V. (STFi), Chemnitz.

You solve complex tasks when producing food or food additives. When dealing with solid-liquid

separation and dedusting challenges you can rely on your partner Heimbach: We provide the

tailor-made solution to your specific filtration application – efficient, reliable and sustainable!

With product life-cycles decreasing and competitive pressure increasing, speed is a central success

factor during product development. Heimbach Filtration is your development partner who promptly

provides innovative solutions with high relevance to your practical needs.

Heimbach Filtration Products: Standard of Reliability

Heimbach products comply with European Union regulations 1935/2004 and 10/2011 as well as the

directives of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the USA, which means that the products are

suitable for food production in both territories.

By the way: Food compliance is based on measurements which were performed by an external

independent research institute.

Heimbach policies are transparent! We would be glad to show you our high voluntary quality

standards in individual customer audits. We are naturally certified according to: iSO 9001,

iSO 14001, BS OhSAS 18001 and SCC** (** = unrestricted certification). And what matters

most: Everyone at heimbach Filtration lives quality – on every single day.

Head of Quality Management: Gerda Nordhausen

Excellent laboratory equipment as a pre-requisite for high quality standards is

a given at Heimbach Filtration: our laboratory is equipped, for example, with a

scanning electron microscope (SEM) as well as an infrared spectrometer (iR).

Your Specific Benefits

Heimbach Filtration lets you benefit from a unique performance range:

• As a filtration expert we produce long service life filter media as rolled goods and also

manufacture filter bags, filter pockets, filter belts and much more.

• As your development partner we provide individual solutions for every application or

optimize current processes.

• As a creative team of engineers we provide technical advice for demanding filtration applications.

• As precision-minded experts we provide application technology support based on

validated performance analyses which we gathered and evaluated in comprehensive, long-term

and systematic laboratory tests and field trials.

• As a performance-oriented partner our TASK service team provides fast and flexible on-site

assistance, replaces filter elements and supplies accessories. Our TASK team works according to

hygiene and cleanliness standards of the food industry.

• As a mid-sized company with a clear set of values we work thoroughly, with technical

expertise and in this sense creatively on solutions for demanding technical applications.

Heimbach Filtration GmbH • An Gut Nazareth 73 • 52353 Düren • GERMANY

Telefon +49 (0) 24 21 8 02-0 • Telefax +49 (0) 24 21 8 02-7 09 • heimbach-filtration@heimbach.com

www.heimbach.com

Heimbach Filtration AB • Box 11066 • 507 11 Borås, SE-507 11 • SWEDEN

Phone +46 (0) 33-22 52 80 • Fax +46 (0) 33-22 52 89 • info@heimbachfilt.se

Heimbach Filtración S.A. • Suipacha 2941/2971 • San Martín Buenos Aires • ARGENTiNA

Phone +54 (0) 11-47 24 42 00 • Fax +54 (0) 11-47 24 42 50 • infoarg@heimbach.com • www.filtman.com

Heimbach Filtración Chile S.A. • Patricia Vinuela 285 • Modulo 2 • Comuna de Lampa •

Santiago de Chile • ChiLE

Phone +56 (0) 2651500 • infochile@heimbach.com