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Inlet Filters & Silencers

Clean, quiet air in: filtration and silencing sized to protect the machine and the neighbours.

Range of new inlet filter elements with foam pre-filters grouped by size on the workshop floor

What they are

The guards on the way in and out. Filtration protects tight clearances from dust; silencers knock the pulse and whine out of the airflow.

What we do

  • Correctly sized filters and silencers for every major machine.
  • Replacement elements as part of service kits.
  • Upgrades where the original spec was never right.
  • Advice on filtration for dirty or dusty sites.

Getting the choice right

Filtration is a trade between how clean and how restrictive. Size for the airflow with margin, spec the media for your dust, and fit a differential gauge so element changes happen on condition instead of guesswork.

Silencers have to suit the machine's pulsation and line size. An undersized silencer robs pressure; the wrong type just moves the noise somewhere else.

What goes wrong

  • Blocked elements: the cheapest cause of hot, starved, underperforming blowers we ever find.
  • Collapsed elements: dust straight into tight clearances, and ingestion damage follows.
  • Silencer packing breaking down: absorption material can migrate into the machine or the process.
  • Near-fit elements from a quick order: they leak around the seal and filter nothing. Verified parts only.

Typical duties

every installed blower, especially conveying and outdoor plant.

Row of blue packaged blowers receding down a newly built blower hall

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