Unfiltered: ERS Shares Its Growth Journey
business, and we believe, the industry. With that first instal- lation, we were able to take out our customer’s old dust collection system and we were on our way,” Carver said. Carver and Cunningham, both Mechanical Engineers, have decades of experience in the manufacturing indus- try. They have spent their careers focusing on equipment integration and working to find innovative and effective solutions in a variety of industries. “We take a multi-pronged approach when assessing our customers needs. Our systems are designed to min- imize energy requirements, improve process flows, and reduce labor requirements. We are able to achieve all of these cost saving measures and provide systems that per- form better and produce a cleaner finished product than the competition,” said Carver. “That’s why it is no surprise to us that so much of our business comes from repeat cus- tomers.” Saving Time One of the biggest issues the ERS team had to work through was changing out the filter media, which, like a bag house or cartridge filter, took an entire weekend. This was something ERS’s Andreas Fischer knew something about, having outsourced all the materials to make a type of European drum filter in an earlier career. For ERS, he successfully negotiated a deal with a new supplier in the Czech Republic to make some of components for the ERS CCM® OCT filter systems.
Engineered Recycling Systems’ (ERS) success in the cor- rugated industry was born out of a challenge that needed innovative engineering and a healthy dose of persever- ance to solve. “I remember being contacted by a corporate engineer with one of our new customers who had an explosion and
resultant fire in their bag house” said Mike Carver, co-founder of ERS. “They had been tasked with finding a dust collection system that posed less fire risk and ulti- mately made their material han- dling system safer.” Jim Cunningham, ERS’ other co-founder, was familiar with a type
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of filter used in the textile industry that had been adopted in Europe. “While the overall filter concept showed prom- ise, there were significant deficiencies when we installed the first generation of these filters into the corrugated in- dustry,” said Carver. Undeterred, Carver, Cunningham and their team went back to the drawing board. “Fortunately, we were able to work closely with our customer and soon unveiled the newly engineered CCM® (Continuous Clean- ing Modular OCT) filter in 2016, which revolutionized our
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