Carolina Filters, Inc.(CFI) is committed to "green" technologies that are economical and provide benefit to the environment. 'Shattered Metal Reclamation' is one of Carolina Filters' "Green Solutions" that provides fiber producers an option to convert an expensive consumable into a re-usable resource.

Shattered metal powder is utilized by the synthetic fiber industry as the most effective method of removing gels and, thus, producing high quality fiber. 

Shattered metal powders

• provide a high porosity media bed & longer on-stream life
• resist channeling of the polymer flow
• non-reactive

Virgin shattered metal powder

• is expensive to purchase
• has increasing waste disposal costs for the spent shattered metal powder. 

To help mitigate these increasing costs, Carolina Filters has developed a reclamation process that removes all polymeric and non-polymeric contaminants from polymer encapsulated shattered metal powder. 

Once reclaimed, the viability of shattered metal powder is confirmed to meet customer specifications utilizing

• apparent density
• sieve analysis and
• organic analysis testing. 

Benefits of using reclaimed shattered metal powder are: