This year’s winner for the Creative Pumpkin Contest is…
A TIE!!!
Between Todd Leach and Jessica Kiuber!!!
Todd’s Mummy Pumpkin
Jessica’s Minion!
Category: Fun Blog
Vote for Best Pumpkin!!
It’s that time of year again! Time for the Creative Pumpkin Contest!! Stop by the office to vote for who you think is the most creative pumpkin!! Here are this years entries!! Amy: Roll Tide Elephant 
Craig: SCREAM pumpkin! 
Denise: Ghost 
Desmond: Duck Tape Demon 
Jessica: Minion from Despicable Me
Kevin: Mardi Gra Pumpkin 
Lara: The Changing of Seasons
Todd: Mummy Pumpkin
Vince: Miley Cyrus on a wrecking ball
Come on in and vote for who you think is the best! On October 31st we will count up the votes! Stay tunes to see who will win!
Hydrotech teams up with Filter Pure
A new Hydrotech warehouse is now open, HERE at our Filter Pure Systems headquarters! We are stocking Hydrotech’s best selling products – softeners, filters, valves and repair parts and of course, a knowledgeable staff to assist you! 
Hydrotech is using our warehouse as the primary shipping location for many regional customers, better serving their needs. WaterGroup’s customer service team will arrange local pickups at the customer’s request and will automatically route regional customer orders to the best WaterGroup warehouse location depending upon stock and availability. We are proud to team up with Hydrotech and use our warehouse for their stocking and shipping needs.
Meet the OW Family!
This lovely family of water filter cartridges delivers premium quality drinking water for bottleless coolers and drinking fountains. Their unique filter blend uses activated carbon to reduce chlorine taste and odor and other offensive contaminants. Like most of Everpure’s carbon water filters, the OW family contains a precoat submicron technology which reduces dirt and particles as small as 1/2 micron in size. Check out my blog about Microns to see how small a 1/2 micron really is! But beware of the GIARDIA cyst!! The OW family inhibits scale from building up in your home water cooler, your water dispenser, or your drinking fountains. Keep an eye out for my up-coming blog about Scale!! Let’s break down this family and see what’s unique about each filter! The OW200L (P/N EV9619-06) has a rated capacity of 480 gallons. Its overall dimensions are 17″H x 3.25″ diameter. Its service flow rate is at maximum 0.5 gpm. This cartridge is commonLY used in office drinking water systems and home drinking water systems. In fact, that’s what I have installed under my sink at home. The OW2-PLUS (P/N EV9634-01) and the OW4-PLUS (P/N EV9635-01) are essentially the same. The only difference is their capacity rating and size. The OW2-PLUS is rated at 1,000 gallons and 10.25″H x 3.25″ Diameter. The OW4-PLUS is rated at 2,000 gallons and 14.5″H x 3.25″ diameter. But unlike the OW200L, they both contain a KDF media that can remove lead to below the Federal Action Level of 10 ppb. All the OW replacement water filter cartridges are NSF Certified under NSF/ANSI Standards 42 and 53, which means these cartridges get the job done! We gladly stock the OW family and for more information about the OW family, contact us at 1-800-942-7873 or click on the “Live Help ONLINE” link on the left of your screen.
Wrapping Pallets with Style!
For Desmond, who handles our shipping and receiving, preparing pallets to be shipped was a huge pain! He would have to individually weigh every box of product, then stack them on a pallet, and with a hand-held pallet wrapper, he would have to manually wrap the pallet himself. Have you ever put plastic wrap over a casserole dish? Even that can be annoying, especially if the plastic wrap gets all tangled and stuck together. What a headache! Desmond has to wrap multiple pallets a day. And some of these pallet measure 48″ x 40″ x 60″ in size!! Well things just got a whole lot easier for Desmond! We got a brand new automatic pallet wrapper!! Check out the pictures below! Everyone gathers around to see what this new contraption is! 
Everyone is shown how easy this new pallet wrapper is to use! 
Craig and Desmond are mesmerized by the new contraption! 
Instead of taking up almost half an hour, Desmond can stack and wrap pallets under ten minutes, now with the new pallet wrapper! That makes Desmond one happy worker!! 
What is a Micron?
When dealing with water purification you hear the term “micron” alot. But what exactly is a micron? Ever heard of a micrometer? Well, it’s the same thing. So really, the question is… 
Wow! One micron is extremely small! It can’t even be seen by the human eye! Trust me, I tried. So where does the term micron come in to play with water purification? Well, the water you drink can carry nasty bacteria and, get this, PARASITES!! Yes, there are parasites floating around in the water you drink. Giardia is one of the most common parasites that can be found in unfiltered water. Giardia is a genus of anaerobic flagellated protozoan parasites of the phylum Diplomonada in the supergroup “Excavata” that colonize and reproduce in the small intestines of several vertebrates, causing giardiasis. Did you understand any of that? In other word, Giardia, when ingested can cause a bad case of diarrhea. 
Look at that! It looks like a tooth ready to attack! Now, obviously this picture is magnified because you would definitely know if this tooth-like critter was in your water. But guess how many microns a parasite is? 10 micron? 5 micron? NOPE!!! It’s 1 micron! That’s right, one tiny little micron! But don’t worry. We have a large variety of water filters that use sub-micron technology to keep your water parasite and bacteria free! Do you know These filters are NSF certified and capable of removing bacteria as small as .5 micron! Filter Pure is dedicated to providing you with water you can trust! So contact us today about our 1 micron water filters and 5 micron water filters. 
Dealer Support Conference!
Filter Pure Systems hosted their first Dealer Support Conference last week and what a success! Vince Paglino, our Dealer Support Manager, did a great job setting up this conference. We had a huge turn out as dealers and re-sellers from all over Florida came to participate in product and sales training. Vince invited Rod Berry from Everpure to lead the training with some information on Everpure’s new 2013 products, as well as, basic technical training on the MRS-600-HE-II (which is a very complex reverse osmosis system). The conference was very hands on as dealers/re-sellers were able to physically touch and work on filtration systems, provided by Everpure. Vince also took some time to go over cold calling techniques and how to ask customers the right questions. I asked Vince what his goal was for the conference. He replied, “We want to become a resource to our dealers. We want to build their knowledge on the products we distribute, as well as train them on how to sell these products. We want them to be the best sales person in their field through application, troubleshooting, and product knowledge. This conference is a launching pad for individual support, on and off the field for all our dealers. The way I see it, if they win, we win.” Below are some pictures from the event. We are already getting calls asking when our next conference will be! For more information on our Dealer Support Program and upcoming conferences, please contact Vince Paglino at 1-800-942-7873, or email him at Vince@filterpure.com.
Filter Pure's First Bowling Team!!
The Florida Restaurant and Lodging Association throws a bowling tournament every year where companies around the area can compete against and learn more about each other. But something was different this year. There was a NEW team on the list. A team that would prove very hard to defeat! TEAM FILTER PURE!!!!!! 
Just in case you’re unfamiliar with the fellows on the team, here’s a little about each of them: Craig Mastny, aka the Filter Genius, has worked with Everpure products for almost 40 YEARS!!!! This guy knows his stuff and Filter Pure is proud to have him as part of their technical support program and Marine department. Desmond Hall has been over-seeing all our shipments for over a year now. It seemed like just yesterday he came to our company, barely able to drive a fork lift. Now he’s the king of the warehouse! He’s also known for his cheerful singing…which can be heard around the entire building. Vince Paglino works with our dealers, providing them with on and off site product training. If you’re interested in being apart of these training’s, just call and ask for Vince. He’s one of the friendly people you’ll meet and has a great sense of humor! Kevin O’Neil is the newest addition to our family! He is our new Outside Sales Representative. Kevin is a go-getter with a great positive attitude that just makes your day! We’re so glad to have him as a part of our family! Heads turned as this handsome group of men walked in! Filter Pure couldn’t be more proud of these guys! They did great too! Desmond killed it with a score of 153! Craig and Vince were on fire with a score of 141 and Kevin wasn’t too far behind from that! Team Filter Pure didn’t win, but they had a great time and met alot of other companies! Next bowling tournament…it’s the girl’s turn to form a team!! They’ll win it for sure!!!
Water Filtration System in a Straw
LifeStraw makes previously contaminated water drinkable by removing bacteria and viruses. Sometimes, it’s the simplest technologies that have the greatest potential impact on people’s lives. Take the Vestergaard Frandsen Group’s mobile personal filtration system, otherwise known as LifeStraw. It is a powder-blue plastic tube—much thicker than an ordinary straw—containing filters that make water teeming with typhoid-,cholera- and diarrhea-causing microorganisms drinkable. Now, to be clear, we do not sell this item…yet. We just love to report what’s going on out there in the water purification world. The filters, made up of a halogenated resin, kill nearly 100 percent of bacteria and nearly 99 percent of the viruses that pass through LifeStraw. A University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill evaluation tested the device’s performance in water containing Escherichia coli B and Enterococcus faecalisbacteria and the MS2 coliphage virus as well as iodine and silver. The results indicated that LifeStraw filtered out all contaminants to levels where they don’t pose a health risk to someone drinking the water.
But the device does not filter heavy metals such as iron or fluoride nor does it remove parasites like cryptosporidium or giardia, although the Switzerland-based company’s CEO, Mikkel Vestergaard Frandsen, says there is a version of LifeStraw available to relief groups in Bangladesh and India that can filter arsenic. At less than 10 inches (25 centimeters) long, the device can filter up to 185 gallons (700 liters) of water, estimated to be about a year’s supply for one person. The device is no longer usable when its filters become too clogged to pass water through, typically after a year of hard use.
The success of the personal filtration system led Vestergaard Frandsen to introduce earlier this month its LifeStraw Family device, an instant microbiological purifier that provides about 2.6 gallons (10 liters) of safe drinking water in an hour and about 4,000 gallons (15,000 liters) over its life span for a family of six. LifeStraw Family is designed to sieve dirt, parasites, bacteria and viruses, and will be available starting in May. Larry Greenemeier www.scientificamerican.com
We Support Our U.S. VETS
For many years, Filter Pure has supported U.S. VETS in their efforts to provide comprehensive services to homeless and at-risk veterans. With 11 facilities in six states and the District of Columbia, U.S.VETS provides vital services such as case management, employment assistance, job placement, counseling, as well as drug- and alcohol-free housing to over 2,000 veterans each day. Filter Pure, in their support, is donating an Everpure Insurice Twin-i2000 system. This NSF certified system will help the U.S. VETS reduce ice machine problems caused by scale build-up and also reduce chlorine taste and odor and other offensive contaminants in their water. With its new and improved Micro-Pure II media and precoat submicron technology it can reduce dirt particles as small as 1/2 micron in size, while handling up to 18,000 gallons of water. 
Filter Pure is happy to provide the U.S. VETS with great tasting, filtered water. It is our commitment to ensure every glass you drink is sparkling clear. With all the hard work and sacrifice these Veterans, and those supporting them, have done for our country, a clean, pure glass of water is the least we can do. 
