The sophisticated FiltaCool filter system, designed especially for commercial refrigeration units, lowers the concentration of harmful gases, regulates humidity and reduces unpleasant odors in walk-in coolers and other cold storage devices.  FiltaCool will also keep your units running longer and more efficiently.  Let’s take a closer look at just how FiltaCool can save money for your business.
Food Savings
Restaurants and other commercial kitchens spend an average of 30 percent of their annual revenue on food costs.  FiltaCool provides a way to save big on your food costs.  FiltaCool filters extend the life of perishable food items, thereby helping you control food costs.

Let’s say that your restaurant brings in $1,000,000 annually.  That means that your food costs will be around $300,000.  Of that $300k, nearly 35% ($105k) will be spent of fresh produce, a good deal of which will end up in the dumpster after spoiling.  If FiltaCool filters saved you just 2% on the cost of produce, then you would be saving $175 each month ($2,100 annually) on just produce.  In reality, you would most likely see even greater savings.

Energy Savings
The potential to save you money doesn’t stop there.  Independent tests show that FiltaCool helps coolers run more efficiently and lowers cooler temperatures by 2-5 degrees.  FiltaCool filters have been demonstrated to reduce the energy use of coolers by as much as 10 percent.

The average walk-in cooler uses 20,000 kWh of energy per year.  At the national average of $0.11/kWh, the cost of running a cooler for one year comes out to around $2,244.  Using FiltaCool can reduce that figure, saving around $224 per cooler per year.  Your business will be able to proudly boast of your “greener” way of doing business while saving money.

Equipment Savings

Using less energy can lead to even greater savings as well.  FiltaCool users also report reduced spending on costly repairs and maintenance.  Because your equipment will have to work less to maintain a stable temperature in your coolers, its life can be extended by as much as 33 to 44 percent.

The cost of a 1.5 HP compressor and a 8200 BTU evaporator with 2 fans averages at around $3,000 with a 5 year life expectancy.  Filta can extend this systems use by 40%, adding on another 2 years of life and saving the owner $172 in equipment costs each year.  Filta can help you realize the full potential of your cooling systems and see them running longer.

From the minute FiltaCool filters are installed in your units you will start saving money.  Your produce will last longer, generating less waste and bigger profits.  Your equipment will run more efficiently and last longer.  FiltaCool is yet another way that Filta helps improve the way you do business in a “greener” and more cost-effective way.

“Filta is dedicated to saving our clients money, creating a safer work environment, and providing our partners with the tools to increase the quality of their product, all the while preserving the environment.” True to the Filta Mission Statement, FiltaCool provides all of the innovation and savings that have made FiltaFry an globally recognized name in fryer and oil management to the field of cold storage.

Moisture Management

One of the biggest problems in cold storage is the issue of humidity regulation.  Too little moisture leaves goods shriveled and dried.  Excessive humidity destroy compromises the cellular integrity of your foodstuffs, causing them to deteriorate more rapidly.  Furthermore, when moisture condenses and freezes on cooling coils it causes them to operate less efficiently.  This results in higher temperatures and extended defrosting cycles.

Moisture can also create hazardous and unhealthy conditions for staff and supply personnel.  Collected pools are also breeding grounds for dangerous and destructive bacteria.  FiltaCool filters regulate the humidity in your walk refrigeration units.  Your coolers will run more efficient and your perishable goods will last longer.

Optimizing Temperatures

Fluctuating temperatures can also present a problem in refrigeration.  Excessively low temperature can damage your products at the cellular level, leaving them mushy and unusable.  High temperatures in your cooler accelerate the growth of bacteria that destroys your produce and meat products.  The optimal temperature range for commercial cooling falls between 35-38 degrees Fahrenheit.  Achieving this can be difficult with inefficient coolers.  FiltaCool improves cooler performance so that your refrigeration unit can operate at ideal temperatures while using less energy.

Eliminating Odors

When food items are stored in close quarters with more pungent items, they can begin to absorb odors.  Certainly no one wants their produce to smell like fish, nor will your customers particularly care to eat it.  Unpleasant odors can accumulate over time and create an disagreeable environment for your staff, as well.  With FiltaCool, noxious odors can be eliminated, leaving your cool smelling fresh and preserving the quality of your foodstuffs.
Gases and Bacteria

Factors such as bacteria, oxidation, Ethylene gases and Pectin gases can accelerate food spoilage.  While these processes are occur naturally and cannot be prevented, they harmful effects of accumulation in confined coolers can be reduced.  FiltaCool filters control the level of gases in your cooler and help create a less active breeding ground for bacteria.

Energy and Maintenance

As with all Filta services, FiltaCool offers a cost-effective and eco-friendly solution to cooler maintenance and regulation.  Because your cooler will run more efficiently, they will suffer less wear and tear and will use less energy.  Users report as much as a 10 percent reduction in the energy required to operate their cools when using FiltaCool filters.   These same businesses also report a 33%-44% increase in the life of their equipment.

FiltaCool offers businesses a whole new way to “go green” and save money.  With FiltaCool filters your business will use less energy, reduce waste due to spoilage, and extend the life of your coolers.

FiltaCool can help you reduce your energy costs, keep your coolers running better and more efficiently and extend the life of your perishable foodstuffs.

FiltaCool’s advanced cooler filters are designed specifically for the needs of commercial refrigeration and walk-in cooler units.  This unobtrusive, eco-friendly units regulate humidity while filtering out harmful gases that can accelerate the decomposition of perishable goods.  FiltaCool filters also reduce unpleasant odors that can sully food quality and create an unpleasant work environment for your staff.
Restaurants spend an average of 30 percent of their revenue on food costs.  FiltaCool offers big savings in helping to control food costs by extending the shelf life of food.  Your goods will stay fresher and great tasting for longer, reducing the amount of waste in your kitchen.

Peter Adams, Chef/ Instructor and Manager of the Illinois Institute of Art Culinary School has seen such a drastic improvement that FiltaCool has been incorporated into his curriculum.   “[FiltaCool] has increased the amount of product we can keep on hand because it stays so much fresher,” says Adams.  “Because of this, [FiltaCool] is now being integrated into our purchasing and cost control classes.”

The potential to save with FiltaCool doesn’t stop there.  Independent tests show that FiltaCool lowers cooler temperatures by 2-5 degrees.  This helps reduce compressor run-times and can reduce your kWh usage.

“Even the smallest amount of money saved on energy is critical,” declares Ramin Foramarzi, the Project Manager of Southern California’s Edison Refrigeration and Thermal Test Center.  “If you can improve energy consumption you’re essentially improving profit margin.”  FiltaCool filters have been demonstrated to reduce the energy use of coolers by as much as 10 percent.

This reduction in energy use has other implications for savings as well.  Because your equipment won’t have to work as hard to keep temperatures and humidity stable within the optimal ranges, the life of your cold storage units is extended.  “Reducing cooler run time by 10% willprolong equipment life by approximately 33% to 44%,” states the Burbank Electric Company out of Burbank, CA.   Filta can help you realize the full potential of your cooling systems.  FiltaCool users also report reduced spending on costly repairs and maintenance.

FiltaCool offers a comprehensive means of reducing the cost of maintaining your refrigeration units and minimize loss due to wastage in your business.  Not only will you save money using FiltaCool filters in your coolers, but your foods will stay fresher and taste better, and your kitchen will be safer for staff and suppliers.  FiltaCool can help you attain happier customers, happier employees and a happier bank account for your business.

The Filta Group understands the importance of reducing our negative impact on the planet through minimizing waste and using our resources more efficiently.  Filta Environmental Kitchen Solutions provides the means for restaurant owners to not only take a stronger stance environmentally, but to do so in a way that proves financially beneficial.

Less Waste

Every day restaurants and other commercial kitchens produce thousands of gallons of used cooking oil.  Significant improvements have been made in the reuse and recycling of these waste oils, but there remains a continuing need to use less.  Since 1996, FiltaFry filtering services has been making this a very real possibility.

FiltaFry uses an advanced micro-filtration system to purify used cooking oils.  This process removes 99% of carbon and other particulate matter that can break down oils.  This means that your oil will not only taste better, but will last twice as long.  Depending on how heavily you use fryers in your establishment, having a Filta technician clean your oil and fryers once or twice a week could reduce your oil usage by 50%.  Imagine the long-term effects, not only environmentally, but financially.

The FiltaCool cold-storage filter system can help reduce waste in your coolers as well.  This unobtrusive filters are cheap and easy to install and drastically improve the longevity of your perishables.  They regulate humidity and remove many of the gasses that ultimately decompose you cold-stored goods.

Increasing Efficiency

Filta’s dedication to reducing waste doesn’t stop and reducing a restaurant’s production of waste.  Filta agents will also work with a dining establishment to find ways of eliminating waste in production and in finding ways to more efficiently use fryers and coolers.  Untold kilowatt hours of energy are wasted daily through improper use of fryers and ineffectively regulated coolers .

Incorrect heating and filling techniques, wastefully heating when not in use, improper loading and many other factors add to an rising wastage of energy by fryers.  FiltaFry can help to trace, spot and correct these wasteful practices, leading to increased savings and reduced energy use.

FiltaCool filters can keep coolers running longer and more efficiently.  Humidity in cooling units freezes on cooling coils, making them work harder to regulate temperature.  FiltaCool filters remove excess moisture from the air so that your systems can perform better while using less energy.

None of us are going to save the world on our own.  What we all now understand is that it takes everyone doing their parts, and doing everything we can, to make a difference.  Together with Filta, your business can start making a difference.  Even better, not only will you be helping to save the planet, you’ll be saving a lot of money in the process.