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Now, Filter Technology's "Knife-edge filtration of used "Blanket Wash" has resulted in a significant reduction in the overall environmental impact of Australian printing facilities and is achieving both new and used solvent cost reductions in the order of hundreds of thousands of dollars for them each year.

By recycling used "Blanket Wash" through FTA's "Knife-edge" filters, and simply topping up the recycled solvent with new solvent, it is now possible to recycle used "Blanket Wash" indefinitely without the need to ever dispose of used solvent into the environment.

Following our initial approach to a major Australian news print facility, Filter Technology conducted a number of successful tests proving the suitability of our filtration systems to filter and recycle "Blanket Wash" solvents.

• Filter Technology's "Knife-edge" filtration is not only proving to be extremely efficient at filtering oils and fuels. "Knife-edge" filtration can also filter a range of industrial solvents with outstanding results. Our most successful large solvent filtration applications are located at Australia's major newsprint facilities.

  At these facilities, press-cleaning teams utilise a cleaning solvent known as "Blank Wash" to clean the printing presses at the end of each print production run. In the past,
  broadsheet print facilities have been forced to
  dispose of their used "Blanket Wash".