05.11.2025
A test lab in Filtrabit’s recently opened R&D center in Oulu, Finland, is now in full operation. The new testing facility allows Filtrabit to run important experiments on particle separation with enhanced in-house capabilities.
A test lab in Filtrabit’s recently opened R&D center in Oulu, Finland, is now in full operation. The new testing facility allows Filtrabit to run important experiments on particle separation with enhanced in-house capabilities.
Jyri Tolonen, Chief Product Officer of Filtrabit:
“The test lab plays a role in both R&D and serving customers in the present. Validating Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations in the physical world is an essential part of the R&D process for Filtrabit.
In the customer space, adding to the ability to run experiments on a customer’s own dust samples was also a key reason for the decision to undertake the expansion of lab facilities. Being able to show measurement data to a customer from their specific materials is incredibly valuable.
The particulate emissions problems for heavy industry are as varied as they are common. Time and time again with customers we’re working on solutions for a variety of applications that either have never been done before or at least don’t have an existing play book.
It’s why we see so much untapped potential in flow-dynamics-based dust extraction solutions that require working at a wide range of scales.”
Codename: Kratos
Filtrabit’s R&D project for developing even larger capacity flow-dynamic dust separation technology carries the codename Kratos.
Juha Laukka, Project Lead for Codename Kratos:
“The Kratos project has reached the stage where we are moving from simulation work to primarily physical testing. It’s incredibly exciting to be a part of this kind of cutting edge technological research and to get to design some of these experiments.
Our goal is clear: order-of-magnitude advancement in flow capacity per unit. The possible application space for this scale is massive and it allows us to explore solutions from different angles as the precision unit we’ve already commercialized.”
Dr. Kim Fagerlund, CEO of Filtrabit:
“This is an important step on our growth journey. We’ve been fortunate in our ability to partner with incredible technical Universities here in Finland but having our own lab naturally gives us more capacity to run experiments and speeds things up quite a bit.
Our know-how in flow-dynamics-based particle separation is currently unparalleled and we intend to keep that advantage for a long time to come.”
About Filtrabit
Filtrabit is a Finnish manufacturer of industrial-scale dust extraction systems. Filtrabit’s solution effectively extracts microparticles from industrial dust-laden gas streams, which helps reduce air pollutants from industrial sources and accelerate emissions reductions through the reuse of recovered raw materials.
