The alliance brings together the performance solutions division of W.L. Gore & Associates Inc. and Micronics Engineered Filtration companies C.P. Environmental LLC and United Process Control Inc. Together, they’ll serve as the exclusive distributors of the GORE Low Drag Filter Bag.

Don Eldert, president of Micronics’ dry filtration group, said the partnership leverages the service capabilities of C.P. Environmental and United Process Control with Gore’s filter medium technology.

“The Micronics and Gore organizations have worked together in the industrial dry filtration space for years, particularly in the steel industry. It is fair to say that when Gore shared their low-drag technology development with Micronics, the idea of collaborating to leverage the capabilities of both organizations was readily apparent to both parties,” Eldert told AIST’s Steel News.  

The companies said the Gore Low Drag bag bags, which was formally unveiled in May, is an improvement over others in the market, offering increased baghouse airflow, fan energy efficiency and bag-filtering efficiency as well as a longer lifespan. 

"Our low drag filter bags deliver significant and already- demonstrated economic advantages to steel plant operations -- such as baghouses associated with electric arc furnaces -- and we look forward to collaborating with C.P. Environmental and United Process Control to help steel plant customers realize these benefits," W.L. Gore product manager Louis Raath said in a statement.

Eldert said the companies are seeing a lot of interest in the new bags – they’ve received commitments for three full-scale systems and several more customers are initiating tests of the filter bags at their facilities.