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Leading Manufacturers
Shelco Filters
Middletown, CT | 800-543-5843Liquid filters are just a part of our complete line of filters and cartridges. Shelco is dedicated to providing our customers with excellent quality customer service and high quality products. This is shown through our state-of-the-art research and development team working to increase performance while reducing costs. We take pride in the fact that Shelco filters are distributed and used all over the world in a wide range of high-purity applications.

Filter Source
Hamburg, NY | 800-968-3458Filter Source has been serving the air, gas, and liquid filtration needs of the industrial marketplace since 1962. Our products are used all over the world by many industries. We offer brand name filters and we also manufacture our own line of high quality filters. Filter Source offers full filtration systems as well as replacement elements to fit almost any application. Call us today!

MICRON Filter Cartridge Corp.
Elmhurst, IL | 630-337-3877U.S. Manufacturer of String Wound, Activated Carbon, and Antimicrobial Filter Cartridges and Filter Housings. Filters available in 5", 7", 10", 20", 30", and 40" lengths, 2 1/4", 2 1/2", 4 1/2" diameters. Great quality, customer service and price!

Great Lakes Filters
Hillsdale, MI | 800-521-8565Great Lakes Filters is a leader in the manufacturing of industrial filters. We provide such filters as liquid bag filters, cartridge filters and water purifier filters. Call us today for high quality filters, customer service and technical service.

Strainers are familiar utilities in consumer products contexts; they can be used to separate solids and liquids during cooking, they can be used in cleaning pools and they are used in sinks to prevent pipe clogging. But strainers are also important commercial and industrial utilities, particularly in the context of liquid filtration. Strainers are just one example of the many different varieties of liquid filters available to industrial and commercial operations.
Filtration is an important step in a wide variety of industrial processes, including water filtration and purification at wastewater treatment facilities, oil reclamation and cleansing, petrochemical development and a host of other operations. A large percentage of all hydraulic system failures are a result of impurities and unwanted particles that are present in the hydraulic fluid. Strainers are used for hydraulic fluid in order to ensure smooth operation of the system. Hydraulic power is used in many different machines and mechanisms in industrial, construction, military, agricultural, and automotive industries.
The different names assigned to liquid filters are often used interchangeably. Bag filters, which are among the most common filter varieties, can sometimes be referred to as strainers. This is true especially in reference to bags with low filtration standards. The word "strainer" is usually used in reference to a filtering tool that features a comparatively low level of filtration. A reverse osmosis water filter, for example, would never be referred to as a strainer, first because the degree of filtration in a reverse osmosis filter is very high, and second because the filtering performed by such tools happens on a microscopic scale.
Strainers are employed in the filtration of larger particles from a flow. In the production of dairy products, for example, strainers with large pores separate unwanted large particles from milk while allowing desired, smaller particles to remain. Strainers can be constructed out of many different materials; in heavy-duty applications, they tend to be made of metal and formed into a mesh. In lighter-duty applications, they are often made of fabric.