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Hospital Filtration

1. University Medical Center Performs On-Site
Filter Tests, Demonstrates Hi-Flo Fine Fiber
Media is Superior to Synthetics.
In-situ tests on multiple air handling units over
an 8-week period provided conclusive proof of
fine fiber media superiority.

2. University Medical Center Lowers Costs,
Gets Longer Service Life with “30/30” Air Filters.
Quick dust loading, high air velocity and turbulent airflow,
and high ambient humidity posed special challenges.

3. US “Top 3” Hospital Optimizes Air Quality by
Replacing Synthetic Filters with Fine Fiber Media
In-situ tests showed original (electrostatic) filters
caused air quality to degrade quickly.

4. Lean Staffing Leads Hospital to Solution Offering
“True MERV 8” Efficiency, Reduced Filter Changes. 

Bonus: first-year energy cash savings top $28,000.  

5. US “Top 10” Pediatric Care Facility Replaces
Charged, Coarse Media, Gains Longer Filter Life,
$70,960 in Annual Cash Savings.

Life Cycle Costing Analysis was key to documenting
air quality and cost advantages.  

6. National Hospital System Responds to Cost
Cutting Mandate, Selects Filter Providing Lowest
TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) with MERV 8
Performance.

Low static pressure values were key to determining
best filter technology. 

7. Extended Care Hospital Eliminates Odors,
Emissions and Pollutants, Solves Legal Issue
with High Efficiency Filters
.
Outside supply air posed unusual mix of challenges –
and
worker’s comp claim.

8. Cost Reduction Mandate Causes Hospital to
Consider New Ways of Achieving True MERV 8
Efficiency as Required by DHHS.
Tests prove purchasing groups not always best for
obtaining lowest life cycle costs.       

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Pharmaceutical Manufacturing

9. Pharmaceutical Manufacturer Improves
Air Quality, Sees 20% Savings in Air Handling
Energy Costs.
Projected Annual Savings for 800 AHU facility
top $1,000,000.

10. Long Lifetime Efficiency and Superior
Particulate Removal Benefit Vaccine Producer
.
Upgrade to Fine Fiber Media from Coarse Fiber
Improves IAQ with no effect on pressure drop. 

11. Pharmaceutical Company Replaces
High-charge Electrostatic media, Gains Efficiency,
While Lowering Life Cycle Costs. 
Durafil fine fiber media proves air filtration can maintain
its high initial efficiency over a long service life.

12. $1.2 million in Annual Cash Savings, and
5-Star Energy Rating Persuade Pharmaceutical
Manufacturer to Upgrade to Fine Fiber Media filters.
In-situ tests at multiple sites demonstrated superiority
of “30/30” – Durafil combination.

13. “30/30” – Hi-Flo Combination Proves
“Best in Class” for Bio-pharma Manufacturer
Side Benefit:  customer’s engineering team calculated
“14-1” savings: for every $1 spent with Camfil Farr vs.
the competition, customer saves $14 in labor charges.

14. Nation’s Fastest-growing School District
Meets Cost-Cutting Goal as System Pressure Drop –
and Energy Costs -  Move Lower. 
Camfil Farr Performance Guarantee made upgrade
a risk-free proposition.

15. Pharmaceutical Plant Streamlines Certification
Expense, Cuts Energy Use, Reduces Filter Usage
and
Changeout Frequency
Life Cycle Analysis model proved excellent tool
for achieving lowest-possible TCO (Total Cost
of Ownership).

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Schools and Universities

16. University Documents $46,000 Annual
Savings by Moving to a Panel Filter with
3-9X Longer Service Life.
Cost savings for energy associated with air handling
also proved substantial.

17. University Lowers HVAC Energy Costs
24% per Year with Move from Charged Synthetic
to Fine Fiber Media
.
Net savings is $14 per filter, per year. 

18. Homewood City Schools Improve Indoor
Air Quality, Turn Costs into Cash Savings
.
Forward-thinking superintendent of schools had
spearheaded LEED certification efforts; highschool
recently named as one of America's top 500 public
schools by Newsweek Magazine. 

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Manufacturing

19. Leisure Products Manufacturer Shows
Camfil Farr Fine Fiber Media is 42% More Efficient
Than Synthetics, Delivers 12X the Service Life.
Controlled media spacing helped maintain lower
pressure drop, reduce energy use.

20. Global Computer Maker Conducts High-Profile
Air Filter Test to Determine “Best Economic Value.”
Top performer was the radial pleat "30/30", which
generated annual cash savings of $34,786, also
reduced changeout labor.

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Technology

21. Fortune 500 Semiconductor Giant Moves From
Low Commodity Filters to Low Life Cycle Cost Filters.
Change from coarse fiber to fine fiber media was key
to savings of 37% over five years.

22. US Dept. of Energy Switches to Fine Fiber
Media for Highest Efficiency, Lowest Pressure Drop.
Tests showed coarse fiber media had caused rapid
efficiency loss; lab now purchases Camfil Farr products
for peak performance, lowest energy use.

23. Camfil Farr Media Reduces Chlorine Gas
Levels from Extremely High to Zero at Semiconductor
Manufacturing Facility.
Zero-bypass, zero-odor solution also halted costly
employee evacuations.

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Hospitality

24. Luxury Hotel Chain Earns “Energy Honor Roll”
Award after Installing "30/30" Panel Filters and
Reducing Energy Costs Per Room by 17% Annually
.
Changing to Camfil Farr "30/30s" also allowed hotel
to reduce air filters purchased annually from 8400
units to 1680.

25. Casino Evaluates Filter TCO (Total Cost of
Ownership), Chooses "30/30" as Best Value.
Product cost, changeouts, disposal, handling
storage and energy expense all pointed to "30/30"
as #1 overall value.

26. Luxury (“Top 40”) Golf Resort Improves
Air Quality,  Reduces Annual Filter Use from
19,800 to 6,600
.
Reduced Waste Burden and labor costs added
to savings.

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Food and Beverage Processing

27. Poultry Processor Gets 7X the Filter Life
by Upgrading from Low Cost Pleated Panel
Filter to "30/30s". 
Performance Guarantee was key: company processes
44 million birds per week in a high humidity,
high-particulate loading environment.  

28. Beverage Producer Couples Contaminant
Control with Cost Control
"30/30" – Durafil combination halved the number of
filter changes, reduced AHU energy cost by 20%

29. Global Tea & Coffee Producer Calculates 20%
Annual Savings on AHU Energy, Eliminates
Contamination Issue
.
Fine fiber media filters are ideally suited to high
humidity environment.

30. Brewer Achieves 46% Efficiency Improvement
in Removal of 0.5 Micron Particles.
Side-by-side particle count tests using identical AHUs
documented superiority of “30/30s” compared to
charged coarse media filters.

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Retail

31. Retailer Pockets Savings of $6,750,000
Annually Using Air Filter with Low Life Cycle Cost

Low initial and low final pressure drop illustrates
how resistance effects HVAC costs in the chain’s
1500 stores.

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Food Retailing

32. Food Retailer Uses Blind Tests in
Mobile Lab to Make High-Stakes Filtration
Decision affecting 300 Stores. 
A 50% pressure drop advantage was achieved
by Camfil Farr "30/30" against Rival #1 after
2 months of testing; particle breakthrough and
structural failure doomed Rival #2.

33. Escalating Costs and Competition Cause
Grocery Chain to Look for Savings in Maintenance.
Tests of 3 filters demonstrated that replacement of
store filters with "30/30s" would reduce change-outs
by 50% and save $30 per filter per year.

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Airport

34. International Airport Chooses High-capacity,
High-efficiency, Low-bypass Filtration to Minimize
Gas-phase filter Life Cycle Costs and Labor.
Gas-phase challenges from passengers, auto and
bus traffic, GSVs and jets posed complex set of
air quality challenges.

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Office Building

35. Office Tower Saves $17,000 Cash / Year
with Filter Upgrade
.
Tests revealed commodity “charged media” filters
had failed to provide rated air efficiency.

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