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Control Factors Portland, LLC
Water treatment skid with stainless tanks and filtration columns

Applications

Industrial water and wastewater filtration 

From raw water intake to end-of-pipe polishing: strainers, housings, separation vessels, and elements from ten filtration manufacturers, sized to the stream.

The short answer

For industrial water and wastewater, Control Factors Portland supplies pipeline strainers, bag and cartridge housings, high-flow and separation vessels, pressure leaf filters, and replacement elements, selected to your solids loading, flow rate, and discharge target. We ship factory-direct anywhere in the USA.

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The treatment train

Water treatment skid with stainless tanks and filtration columns
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Intake and pretreatment straining

Eaton simplex, duplex, and self-cleaning strainers protect pumps and downstream equipment.

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Bag and cartridge filtration

Rosedale, Filter Specialists, and FTC housings with AJR, United Filters, and Graver elements, roughing to polishing.

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Separation and strainer vessels

Wessels vessels and magnetic elements for high-flow and solids-heavy streams.

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Pressure leaf and custom vessels

Jonell-Nowata-Kaydon pressure leaf filters and custom ASME vessels for engineered clarification duty.

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Selection inputs that matter

Flow rate, solids type and loading, target micron rating or discharge limit, pressure and temperature, chemistry, and cleaning philosophy. Send these and we will return a staged selection with element life and change-out cost.

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Who this serves

Data centers first: cooling tower and process water filtration for the enormous data center market, where strainers, high-flow housings, and separation vessels protect cooling equipment. Then metal finishing and plating, food processing, semiconductor support, municipal industrial pretreatment, pulp and paper, and any generator under discharge limits. We also cross and supply replacement elements for housings of any make already installed.

FAQ

Questions buyers actually ask

Can you supply elements for housings we already own?+

Yes. Send the housing make and model or the element dimensions and we will quote compatible bags or cartridges, often with media upgrade options.

Do you help with filtration testing for sizing?+

We arrange sample testing and analysis through the factory to confirm media and vessel selection before capital is committed.

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(503) 669-1185 · sales@cfactors.com