You Want Bigger Self-cleaning Filters - We Need More Room!

Rotorflush Filters Ltd are expanding again – and it’s not just the balance sheet, there’s geography too.

Rotorflush Filters Ltd began because of the invention of the Rotorflush self-cleaning filter for pump suction intakes, and the development of Rotorflush Filterpumps™ (submersible pumps with built-in Rotorflush self-cleaning filters on the intake). 

All those years ago (History for those interested) a self-cleaning pump intake capable of screening about 1000 litres a minute was the largest we produced; filterpumps were based around small submersibles offering up to 220 litres a minute. Rotorflush filter pumps and self-cleaning filters enable dirty water to be pumped and screened at source.  All very useful for our farming and irrigation customers, but interest in our low maintenance intakes soon spread to other sectors with differing demands.

More and more water is being abstracted, processed, and re-used, and this pushes the demand for larger pumps and larger screens. Other factors have also contributed, such as the shift to lower carbon technologies – for example, water source heat pumps for domestic and district heating systems which need a screened supply of water for heat exchange.  Environmental regulations, for example, the requirement to protect elvers and fish fry by screening as raw water is abstracted from our waterways, lakes and reservoirs have contributed to the demand for low intake velocity self-cleaning intake screens. 

And of course year-on-year there are more of us, and we all need water.

Rotorflush Filters are equal to the challenges of increased demand for screened water.  Our products are uniquely suitable in that the self-cleaning filter technology we deploy allows water to be continuously pumped while screening from 60 microns to 2 mm – depending on flow rate and application. The low intake velocity of our products protects wild life and our filters, strainers and pumps hugely reduce the downtime, maintenance and energy costs of our competitors offerings and of traditional screening methods.

Bigger screens, larger pumps and more of them means we need more space to continue producing our world-class self-cleaning filtration products.

We have engaged P H Hardwill and Sons – an excellent and reputed local building Company (well, they’re based in - Beaminster - its local to us!) to design and build an additional 250 square metres of workshop and storage space.

The bat boxes have been ordered, the ground has been broken, and work continues apace.

We’ll keep you posted as it all comes together – watch, as they say, this space!