Chemistry In Use

I can not tell you how important chemistry is in our day to day filter cleaning operation.   I try to tell young people not to take the easy way out.  Study hard.  Work hard. Play Hard.

Others in filtration look down their nose at people that clean filters.  Yes it is a very dirty job. 
Nothing bad, Just dirty.
It take a well educated person to clean a filter.  One must know what dust or dirt is trying to be removed from a filter (chemical make up).   Also a filter cleaner must understand, and have the knowledge to understand how the solvent works to remove the dust, and concentrations required to do a good job.
One method or type of  filter cleaning can be used to get all the different types of dirt out of a filter.

You have to use chemistry to figure out what is in the filter, what the filter is made of,  and what will give you the best results.
We also use physics to understand the timing, and the methodology, and the effects, and bio-science to understand the destroy  mold, mildew, and viruses to the DNA level.

We urge our people to continue their education to post secondary.  Close to 30% are in advanced course level work, and half of this is post graduate work

I would like to challenge those in new filter manufacturing.  When is the last time you had  an employee who studied physics, and chemistry as a emphasis.  Next time you meet a guy that cleans filter maybe you should consider that he quite possibly could be brighter that you.

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Just because we do a dirty job does not equate to our people being "stuuupid", As my father in law used to say.