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Ice Machine Water Filtration Products

Great water makes great ice.

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3M™ High Flow Carbonless Series for Specialty Ice Applications

Filtered ice. The last scoop as good as the first.

 

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    The Challenge

    You want quality ice and an ice machine that lasts. But excess moisture and other environmental factors can increase the risk of potential growth and spread of biofilm-associated bacteria in ice machines, which impacts both your ice and its machine.

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    The Solution

    Enter 3M High Flow Carbonless Filters. Our Carbonless Filters maintain chlorine and chloramine levels in the incoming water, helping protect your ice machine from potential harmful biofilm build-up and offering critical protection from protozoan cysts. So, you can keep your ice and your machine cleaner.

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    3M™ High Flow Carbonless Absolute Series Water Filtration Products

    You want quality ice and an ice machine that lasts. But excess moisture and other environmental factors can increase the risk of potential growth and spread of biofilm-associated bacteria in ice machines, which impacts both your ice and its machine.

    At your healthcare facility, high cleanliness and sanitization standards help ensure the safety of your patients and staff. It’s important to you to be proactive and mitigate potential risks, including those related to your water management plan. Let us help protect your expensive ice equipment with 3M™ High Flow Carbonless Absolute Series Water Filtration Products.

    Designed to maintain chlorine levels present in your incoming water to help protect your ice machine from potentially harmful biofilm build-up, you can also count on our Carbonless Filters for these benefits:

     

    • Supports the ASHRAE Standard 188 standard for building water systems
    • Reduction of up to 99.9999% of waterborne bacteria *
    • Removal of sediment, cysts** and microorganisms
    • Helps keep ice machines clean without affecting filter life

     

     

     

     

     

     

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    3M™ High Flow Carbonless Series Water Filtration Products

    Enter 3M™ High Flow Carbonless Filters. Our Carbonless Filters maintain chlorine and chloramine levels in the incoming water, helping protect your ice machine from potential harmful biofilm build-up and offering critical protection from protozoan cysts. So, you can keep your ice and your machine cleaner.

    In your commercial foodservice facility, you want to serve your customers ice that’s consistent and appealing. Let us help meet your customers’ ice expectations and protect your expensive equipment with 3M™ High Flow Carbonless Series Water Filtration Products.

    Designed to maintain chlorine levels present in your incoming water to help protect your ice machine from potentially harmful biofilm build-up, you can also count on our Carbonless Filters for these benefits:

     

    • Provides critical protection from protozoan cysts** and scale damage in your ice machines
    • Helps keep ice machines clean without affecting filter life

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    * Reduction of Water-borne bacteria as demonstrated with 99.9999% reduction of surrogate organism Escherichia coli (ATCC 11229), Pseudomonas fluorescens (ATCC 49642), Legionella pneumophilia and Brevundimonas diminuta in a manufacturer’s lab test.

    **Certified to NSF Standard 53 for Cyst Reduction - based on testing using Cryptosporidium parvum oocysts.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     


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    The Challenge

    Excess sediment and scale build-up can clog distribution tubes, while chlorine-residual cause chlorine smell and corrosion, increasing maintenance costs for your equipment.

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    The Solution

    3M Water Filtration Products for ice applications provide built-in scale inhibition as well as chlorine taste and odour and particulate reduction. This can help to reduce service calls and downtime—increasing bottom line profitability.

Water Filtration Products for Ice Machines

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    Systems

    Our systems for ice applications feature valve-in-head design and filter cartridge options offering a wide range of solutions to address many types of water quality concerns.

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    Replacement Cartridges

    3M™ Replacement Cartridges offer solutions that help to reduce sediment, chlorine taste and odour, cyst and scale. The Sanitary Quick Change design allows for fast and easy cartridge change-outs that are sanitary by design – requiring no contact with the filter media during cartridge change-out.

    Learn more about replacement cartridges

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    Heads and Manifolds

    Heads and Manifold products are also sold separately when needed.


3M technology makes a difference.

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    3M™ High Flow Series Cyst Rated Catridges

    New size now available.

    Our cyst rated cartridges offer solutions to help improve the taste, appearance and consistency of your product at flow rates from 1 gpm up to 5 gpm utilizing our Integrated Membrane Pre-Activated Carbon Technology (“I.M.P.A.C.T.”).

     

     

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    Finding the right 3M™ Water Filter for your ice machine.

    With a wide array of filter types available, it can be daunting to decide which filter is most appropriate.

    Consider the following to help you find the right ice machine water filter:
     

    • Ice machine type (cuber, flaker, or nugget)
    • Ice machine size (pounds/kilograms of ice made or harvested per day)
    • Estimated number of hours your ice machine runs per day
    • Local water quality (such as high sediment)
    • Desire to keep chlorine or chloramines in the water
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Need help finding the right product?

3M experts will work with you to help find the optimal 3M purification and filtration solution for your application.

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