Flo Trend Systems - Filtration, solid/liquids separation using dewatering boxes, container filters, oil/water separators, etc.

Our mission is to solve the technical and operational problems for our customers whether it is in filtration, solids/liquids separation or the mixing of solutions.

We are as flexible and imaginative in our financial proposals as we are in our technical innovations providing our products for sale, lease, lease/purchase or rental with experienced operators.

Flo Trend^® has been in the filtration and solids/liquids business for twenty five years. The company both manufactures for sale and rental (with experienced operators where required) a wide range of products supplying an extensive customer base in the oil and gas, industrial, municipal and environmental industries.

Our Product Range includes:

Container and Vertical Panel Filters
Gravity and/or Vacuum Dewatering Boxes
Filter Presses
Centrifuges
Shale Shakers
Industrial Vibratory Screening Units
Cartridge or Bag Filter Vessels
Mix Tanks
Shearing Units
Static Mixers
Oil/Water Separators
Flo Jet Mixers
Oil Skimmers
Hydrocyclones
Vacuum pumps
Polymer Mixing Units and Polymer

A major part of our business is the design and manufacture of specialty products that fill individual customer requirements and specifications. Our mission is to provide the customer with the product and service to suit his specific needs.

Our Core Business

In recent years, we at Flo Trend^® have developed our own patented equipment for gravity or vacuum dewatering, the Container Filter and Retrofit Vertical Panel Filter, which are cost effective alternatives to traditional separation equipment. The Container Filter and Retrofit Vertical Panel Filter have been used in a variety of industries and a multitude of applications where volume reduction, minimzation of handling , and cake dryness are of the utmost importance.

In addition to solid/liquid separation equipment, Flo Trend^® offers Oil/Water Separators and patented mixing/shearing units. We manufacture all of the above mentioned equipment for sale (with the exception of the centrifuge) and also maintain a rental fleet to service customers throughout the United States. Our products are exported for sale to customers all over the world.

Flo Trend's^® field service technicians are Hazwopper trained and available if needed to rig-up, operate, or to provide assistance with our rental/sale equipment.

Beginning In The Oil Field

Flo Trend^® began in the late 70's servicing the oil field, providing filtration equipment and service technicians on well completion and water flood projects. We were one of the first companies to introduce the recessed chamber filter press to the oil industry which had been using cartridge and bag filter units. Now, although cartridge filters are still used as down stream filters, almost all clear completion fluids are filtered with the filter press.

In the early 80's, Flo Trend^® began to provide solids control equipment and service hands to the oil industry for its drilling operations, specifically vibratory screening units, hydrocyclone units, and horizontal decanter bowl centrifuges. We provided this equipment as rental units, to be utilized by the drilling contractor to remove unwanted drill cuttings/solids from the drilling fluid (mud ). Flo Trend^® was one of the first to use this equipment in a system that has come to be know as a "Closed Loop Mud System", an economic and environmentally safe way to dry and reduce the volume of drill cuttings for disposal.

Realizing that other industries had waste problems that required the removal of solids from liquids, Flo Trend^® branched out into other markets. By the late 80's Flo Trend^® was dewatering cooling tower basins and API separators in the petrochemical plants, as well as filtering completion fluids on well completions, and providing "closed loop" systems to the drilling rigs.

Introduction Of Mixing And Shearing Devices

At this time Flo Trend^® began to manufacture and sell equipment to compliment its rental business. Identifying a need to enhance the mixing of dry polymers into drilling fluids in the oil field, we developed a mixing/shearing unit, the "Jet Shear" to help eliminate "fish eyes" and "angel hair" and promote thorough mixing and uncoiling of the difficult to wet polymer molecules. The Jet Shear^® is now a standard feature on hundreds of drilling rigs throughout the world. To compliment the Jet Shear^®, Flo Trend^® introduced the Flo-Jet mixer, an in-the-tank venturi type mixing device that is used to stir and/or aerate fluid when driven by a pump. It is quite often used to sweep the corners of square or rectangular tanks where solids tend to accumulate.

As Flo Trend^® expanded into different markets, we discovered a universal need for a cost effective alternative to centrifuges, filter presses, belt presses and other expensive dewatering/filtration equipment. In 1987 we developed and patented the Container Filter, a dewatering device which consists of a typical sludge handling container, i.e., a self-dumping hopper, lugger box, roll-off box, or any other portable sludge container, with a support "basket" or screen. A cavity below the support screen allows for gravity drainage, or vacuum assisted drainage/filtration when connected to an appropriate pump. The container filter has found its way into numerous markets, from the chemical, food, paper, petrochemical, and environmental industries to the municipal residual waste water treatment industry. In 1997 a second patent was granted to Flo Trend^® on the Container Filter. A complimentary device, the vertical filter panel, was developed as an efficient way to make a Container Filter out of an existing sludge box. The Retrofit Vertical Filter Panels are retrofit into a customers existing roll-off box, either permanently or installed as removable panels (the filter panels can be installed in any tippable sludge container).

Oil Water Separation And Oil Skimmers

Other related equipment that Flo Trend^® manufactures includes the TPL Phase3 Oil/Water Separator, a coalescing type unit that can reduce the hydrocarbon content in the effluent water to below 15ppm and also has several sumps for solids collection and removal.

The flip-flop oil skimmer is a floating type oil skimmer with an ajustable center suction pipe that allows oil to be skimmed as close to the surface as needed. The unit can also be turned upside-down and used as a floating suction.

Environmental Remediation

Another aspect of Flo Trend^® business has been our involvement in environmental remediation. We have completed several soil remediation projects ourselves and provided assistance to prime contractors on other remediation projects. Flo Trend's^® accumulated knowledge of solids handling, separating, and dewatering equipment has allowed us to provide engineering support and equipment to firms engaged in hydrocarbon, lead, norm, and other heavy metal soil remediation projects.

Specialty Products

A major part of business is the design and manufacture of products to solve the specific requirements of individual customer problem applications. In many instances these problems solving exercises have resulted in a whole new product line for our company.