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Nov. 2004 - Multi-HEPA units for pharmaceutical project. Pennaire Filtration Ltd completed the first stage for the supply of a single element pharmaceutical pressure filter and four one-off two stage HEPA filters. All equipment was leak tested and pressure tested, and of stainless steel construction, polished 0.4Ra throughout. Both pressure filter and HEPA filters had safe change facilities. The HEPA filters were also fitted with an additional clean-in-place sprayball system designed and installed specifically for this application.

May 2005 - Wood dust extraction plant at automobile design centre. Pennaire Filtration Ltd completed the installation of a new bagfilter system including fanset, stack, filter, big bag discharge station, full set of ductwork and hoods and control panel for a leading U.K. motor manufacturer in their design centre workshop. Filter had explosion relief protection and a full fire sprinkler system incorporated in the design.

Feb 2006 - Furnace fume project. Pennaire Filtration Ltd completed a full turnkey filter project including the design, manufacture, delivery and installation of a multi chamber reverse jet bag filter with fan set ducting and main stack. The system control panel and software was also provided by Pennaire. The project was installed in accordance with CDM regulations and we were awarded a safety bonus for completing the project without a single safety incident. The 4 module filter contains over 1000sq.m of filter media. The control philosophy programmed into the system PLC allows any one of the filter modules to be taken off line for maintenance whilst leaving the remainder of the filter on line and hence the process can continue uninterrupted.

May 2006– Tanker loading dust control system. PFI supplied and installed a new tanker loading fume control system at a U.K. production facility. (Please see attached article “ armed against dust emissions” for more information.)

October 2006 – Pennaire Filtration awarded ISO9001 certification. P & F Cert.

April 2007- Pharmaceutical clean-in-place filter. Pennaire completed and delivered a new interchangeable filter bag and metal element clean-in-place (CIP) filter for pharmaceutical manufacturer in Ireland. During the factory acceptance testing a full CIP demonstration was undertaken with client to test the filters CIP efficiency with both filter bags and metal elements.All equipment supplied was of stainless steel construction, polished 0.4Ra.

Sept 2007- Incinerator fume project. Pennaire Filtration Ltd completed a full turnkey filtration plant project including design, manufacture, delivery, installation and commissioning of a six chamber reverse jet filter plant including twin fansets, ductwork and a plc based control panel. The system was installed alongside the existing plant whilst still in operation, and brought on line without interruption to the clients process. The six chamber filter contained over 2400 sq.m of filter media. Off-line and on line cleaning capabilities were included.

Jan 2008– New food manufacturers 3 year service contract. Pennaire Filtration Ltd secured a 3 year service order for a preventative maintenance contract on over forty reverse jet shaker filter units on one site in the U.K. The contract covers quarterly walk round surveys and reports monitoring the filtration equipments performance, and supply and fitting of all filter bags, multi-pockets and cartridges on site.The service contract award to Pennaire was estimated to save 30 per cent on the previous suppliers contract by the client.

Nov. 2008– Two new multi-point extraction systems installed in chemical plant. Pennaire Filtration Ltd completed the design, supply and installation of two multi-point extraction systems at a leading chemical plant in U.K. Both systems comprised of a reverse jet bagfilter, ductwork and fansets all in stainless steel construction.

July 2009 - Pennaire were awarded a contract to design and supply 3-off 316 stainless steel cyclones to a process plant in Iceland to separate the process gas and product from a drying application on sea minerals.
 
Sept 2009 - Pennaire Service department undertakes the removal and replacement of 3444 filter bags and cages from a bagfilter plant at a Power Station in the South of Wales working on a 7 day shift pattern to complete the successful removal and fitting in the allocated shutdown period requested by the client. All work was carried out without any incidents and within the allotted timescales. The plant went back online without any emission issues.
 
March 2010 - Pennaire complete the installation of a new cyclone, bagfilter, fanset and ductwork system on the drying process at a Chemical Plant in Manchester. The system removed the process product from the gas stream and feed to the sites existing bagging line. The process gas was then fed into an existing wet scrubbing plant. The reduction is carry over from the cyclone and bagfilter reduced the emissions from the wet scrubber and the need for continuous stopping and starting the clean the scrubbers demister pads. All the equipment was supplied, designed and installed by Pennaire Filtration.
 
Sept 2010 - Pennaire are awarded the contract to supply 3 replacement LEV filter systems for a food manufacturing plant in Manchester. Each filter is designed and supplied with upgrades to meet current legislation requirements and meet the upgrades in process requirements by the client. Filter design is high top clean side bag removal for outdoor location, and filters are lagged and clad to reduce the possible moisture problems from the warm process gases.