Contact:  Melissa Alleman
Vice President
610-696-4710
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Sonobond Ultrasonics’ Equipment Assembles
High Efficiency and Specialty Filtration Products for Great Lakes Filters
Attendees at FILTRATION 2013 (Chicago, November 12-14) Will See
Machinery that Produces Strong, Perforation-Free Seams Four Times
Faster than Sewing and Ten Times Faster than Adhesive Machines
WEST CHESTER, Pennsylvania, September 5, 2013 – When Great Lakes
Filters, in Hillsdale, Mich., needed an assembly method to produce a liquid filter
bag that could hold up to hydraulic pressing without splitting or fraying, it chose
ultrasonic technology using Sonobond Ultrasonics’ SM86 SeamMaster
TM
 High
Profile ultrasonic sewing machine.
“The bag has to capture the pulp from the juicing process and then
withstand intense compression so that the maximum amount of fruit or vegetable
nutrients can be extracted,” explains Brian K. Balliet, CEO of Great Lakes Filters. 
“Sonobond’s equipment allows us to produce a bag that
can do that and meet the customer’s exacting standards.  It
also enables us to fabricate and attach materials that are
difficult via traditional cut and sew methods, resulting in
higher quality products at lower production cost.”