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Spray Paint Booth Filters Buying Guide

Selecting the right filters for your powder coating / paint booth is essential for ensuring optimal performance, compliance with safety regulations, and the quality of your finish. Whether you’re managing a crossdraft or downdraft spray booth, choosing the appropriate intake, exhaust, and air makeup filters can significantly affect your booth’s efficiency and your overall production results.

Multiple factors included in the system design must be considered when making your filtration decisions. Dive into the specifics below to discover how the right filters can enhance not only your coating quality, but also your workplace safety and cost-efficiency.

Applications Configurations Benefits Other
Standard Polyester
  • Make-Up Air units
  • Exhaust / Paint Arrestors
  • Cross-Draft Intake (Industrial Finish)
 Pads, Panels, Linked Panels, Rolls Increased Efficiency vs. Fiberglass Available with a Tacky layer, improving collection of dust in Intake applications, or dry & dusty coating (such as powder coating) in Exhaust applications.  Also available without Tacky layer (dry media), most often used in Exhaust applications for liquid overspray.
Diffusion (High Performance Polyester) Down-Draft Intake (Fine Finish) Panels, Pads, Rolls Highest performance for critical finishes Temperature resistant to 212F, with peaks to 250F.
 Fiberglass & Blended Fiberglass/Poly Exhaust / Paint Arrestors Pads, Rolls  Economical, low air-flow restriction
Expanded Paper & EP w/Poly backer  Exhaust / Paint Arrestors Pads, Rolls Economical with higher capacity, optional high efficiency polyester backer Often used in Colmet® applications
 Accordion & Accordion w/Poly backer  Exhaust / Paint Arrestors Pads, Rolls Higher holding capacity vs standard mesh filters, optional high efficiency polyester backer Made from pleated cardboard. One brand of Accordion filters is Andreae®.
Cube / Pocket Mostly with 2 pockets for Industrial applications Pads, Rolls Much higher holding capacity Often used in combination with a tackified polyester pad filter in powder coating applications.

Definitions:

  • Pads: Unsupported pre-cut filters (mounts on filter grid)
  • Panels: Pre-cut filters with internal wire frame support
  • Linked Panels: 2 or more Panels linked together
  • Rolls: Media in bulk rolls
  • Filter Grids
Standard Polyester Diffusion (High Performance Polyester) Fiberglass & Blended Fiberglass/Poly Expanded Paper & EP w/Poly backer Accordion & Accordion w/Poly backer Cube / Pocket
Applications
  • Make-Up Air units
  • Exhaust / Paint Arrestors
  • Cross-Draft Intake (Industrial Finish)
 Down-Draft Intake (Fine Finish) Exhaust / Paint Arrestors Exhaust / Paint Arrestors Exhaust / Paint Arrestors Exhaust / Paint Arrestors
Configurations Pads, Panels, Linked Panels, Rolls Panels, Pads, Rolls Pads, Rolls Pads, Rolls Pads, Rolls Mostly with 2 pockets for Industrial applications
Benefits Increased Efficiency vs. Fiberglass Highest performance for critical finishes Economical, low air-flow restriction Economical with higher capacity, optional high effciency polyester backer Higher holding capacity vs standard mesh filters, optional high efficiency polyester backer Much higher holding capacity
Other Available with a Tacky layer, improving collection of dust in Intake applications, or dry & dusty coating (such as powder coating) in Exhaust applications.  Also available without Tacky layer (dry media), most often used in Exhaust applications for liquid overspray. Temperature resistant to 212F, with peaks to 250F. Often used in Colmet® applications Made from pleated cardboard. One brand of Accordion filters is Andreae®. Often used in combination with a tackified polyester pad filter in powder coating applications.

Definitions:

  • Pads: Unsupported pre-cut filters (mounts on filter grid)
  • Panels: Pre-cut filters with internal wire frame support
  • Linked Panels: 2 or more Panels linked together
  • Rolls: Media in bulk rolls
  • Filter Grids

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