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How to Measure for Custom Air Filters
Whether you need a residential or commercial filter, sometimes the filter size you need is no longer made, or perhaps you have a unique manufacturing situation in which standard filters won’t provide enough filtration for the job. Then it’s time to consider ordering...
Commercial Filters Can Mean Success or Failure in Precision-Manufacturing Industries
In precision-manufacturing industries such as the semiconductor industry, even a few gas or other particles remaining in the air, uncollected, can harm the end product. Cleanroom manufacturing facilities depend on their filters. Choosing the appropriate commercial...
Can Upgrading Commercial Filters Save Money?
It may seem improbable, but upgrading the type of commercial filters used in commercial buildings can, in the long run, save your company considerable money. One firm saved $17,000/year by changing air filters. The building itself is a large office tower with a marble...
Lowering Disposal Costs When Installing Replacement Filters
If your business changes filters frequently, or runs equipment with numerous filters, you know that the cost of disposing old filters when you install replacement filters can be high. Depending on the size and shape of the old filters, you may need to hire a...
Changing Industrial Filters May Significantly Reduce Chemical Exposure
Sometimes, just changing one industrial filter material for another can greatly reduce the output of harmful chemicals into systems and the environment. One such example comes to mind from Gore, a manufacturer of bag filters. A company was using an old shaker-style...
Industrial Air Filters and Mold
Industrial air filters encounter and contain all sorts of particles. But one they may inadvertently spread instead of contain is mold. Mold is a type of fungi that thrives in warm, humid conditions. Mold spores, on the other hand, can survive even dry conditions, and...
Testing Fibrous High Efficiency Filters
Fibrous high efficiency filters offer the unique ability to trap both small and large-sized particles efficiently, while allowing mid-sized particles to pass through. In tests using aerosol disbursement, particles smaller than 0.1 µm and larger than 0.4 µm were...
Commercial Filters and Disease
It is well known that commercial filters lower the risk of diseases to both animals and humans in industrial animal-growing industries. They can also lower the risk of airborne contaminants in any commercial environment when kept clean. Commercial filters should be...
Properly Fitted Filter Frames Essential to Effective HVAC Systems
Properly fitted filter frames are an essential component for the efficient running of all HVAC systems. Using a filter that’s too big or a filter that’s too small each carries its own risks and problems. When filter frames don’t fit properly, bypass becomes a problem....
Nanotechnology Meets Industrial Air Filters
It sounds like something out of science fiction, but industrial air filters are now incorporating nanotechnology for improved performance. Nanotechnology adjusts and manipulates matter at the near-atomic level, and it’s being explored for use in science, technology...
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For over 70 years Twin City Filter has been a family business providing both filter service and filter sales. We began serving the Greater Twin Cities Metro Area and grew into a coast to coast, border to border business.
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We provide filters, custom filters and service to contractors, office complexes, condos, business parks, colleges, and other industrial, commercial and residential developments.