Cat has long maintained a reputation for manufacturing industry-leading products that offer a unique mix of strength, durability and innovation. Cat filters exemplify this tradition, offering features rarely seen in competitors’ products. We’ve made a brief video covering how:
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Hi, my name is Colin and I’m here today to tell you why Cat filters are better for you.
Cat filters are better because there’s no flexing, no bunching, no metal contamination, and no gaps.
No flexing: Spiral roving eliminates pleat movement and keeps contaminants from working their way into the clean side of the filter. Testing shows filters with spiral roving have 45% lower particle counts than others. Other brands often flex as fluid travels through them, releasing contaminants that can cause wear.
- No Bunching: Acrylic beads rigidly maintain pleat spacing and maximize the filter’s surface area — capturing and holding contaminants until the required change interval. Pleat bunching is common in other brands, allowing contaminants to circulate, causing clogging and shortened filter life.
- No Metal Contamination: Fiberglass-reinforced nylon center tubes eliminate metal contamination and are 30% stronger than metal tubes, helping prevent collapse during pressure spikes and cold starts. In other brands, metal center tubes often carry metal contaminants left over from manufacturing, which can cause wear.
- No Gaps: Molded end caps completely seal the clean side from the dirty side, eliminating gaps and keeping contaminants where they belong. Other brands have metal end caps glued on top of filter pleats — creating gaps that allow contaminants to reenter from the clean side.
Other brands may fit, but Cat filters protect your engine, drive train, hydraulic system and components better.
Our advanced design delivers maximum filtration efficiency and protection for your machine. For you, that means more uptime and lower owning and operating costs.
So remember, protect your Cat equipment with Cat filters.
That was today’s Quick Tip, thanks for watching.
If you’re looking to provide your Cat machines with components that will allow increased functionality and support long-term operation, choose Cat filters as your first choice.
Cat Filters Outperform the Competition
There are several features unique to Cat filters that allow them to outperform their competitors’ offerings. These include:
- No Flexing: Cat filters do not flex like other similar products. They employ a spiral roving mechanism that eliminates pleat movements. Studies show that this mechanism demonstrates a 45% lower particle count than its counterparts on the market. It functions by preventing contaminants from migrating to the clean side of the filter, ensuring a longer life span.
- No Gaps: Cat filters’ molded end caps ensure that the dirty side of your filter does not interfere with the clean side — contaminants are kept where they belong. Competitors’ products usually feature a glued-on end cap, which permits the dirty part of your filter to seep into the clean side.
- No Metal Contamination: Cat filters’ fiberglass-reinforced nylon center tube eliminates metal contamination. That’s why, on average, Cat nylon center tube filters are 30% stronger than their metal tube-reinforced counterparts. This prevents collapse during pressure spikes caused by cold starts.
- No Bunching: Acrylic beads help to rigidly maintain their pleats. This allows for the maximization of surface area, capturing and holding contaminants until the filter is ready to be changed. By contrast, similar products generally bunch pleats together, allowing contaminants to clog up and shorten the lifespan of your filter.
These four unique features help ensure that your Cat machine’s engine, components, hydraulics and drivetrain are protected from damage by contaminants, deliver efficient performance and reduce downtime, thus minimizing operational costs.
MacAllister Machinery: Your Cat Filter Solutions Center
If you’re an Indiana or Michigan business owner looking to outfit your Cat equipment with quality Cat filters that help increase efficiency and provide tough protection against contaminants, contact MacAllister Machinery today. In addition to our filtration products, we also offer a wide range of Cat machines, Cat repair and maintenance services, Cat parts and rentals of quality Cat equipment.
Our team of experts will help determine which Cat components are best-suited to your fleet and make sure your machine receives what it needs to thrive.