Peter Mcleod Air Filtration Products

Peter Mcleod Air Filtration Products We supply all filter types including Prefilters, Filter Media, Fine Filters, HEPA filters and ULPA Filters.

🎉 Fun Fact Friday: What Happens to the Grease in Your Kitchen Canopy?🍳 Every time your commercial kitchen is in full swi...
07/08/2026

🎉 Fun Fact Friday: What Happens to the Grease in Your Kitchen Canopy?

🍳 Every time your commercial kitchen is in full swing, enormous amounts of grease-laden vapour rise from your cooking surfaces. Here's what happens to it — and why it matters.

⭐ The greasy truth about commercial kitchen ventilation:
✔ A single busy restaurant can produce several kilograms of grease in a single service — much of it becoming airborne vapour ✔ Unfiltered grease vapour condenses on every cooler surface it touches — ducting walls, fan blades, roof spaces ✔ Grease deposits inside ductwork are classified as a fire hazard — they can ignite at temperatures as low as 315°C, which is well within range of commercial cooking equipment ✔ The SANS fire safety standards require regular inspection and cleaning of commercial kitchen extraction systems — and adequate filtration is the first line of defence ✔ Grease filters typically need cleaning every 2–4 weeks in a busy kitchen — but many go months between services

🔥 The consequence of neglect: Kitchen fires are one of the leading causes of commercial property damage in South Africa. A significant proportion of these are linked to grease accumulation in poorly maintained extraction systems.

🌬️ The good news: A properly sized, regularly maintained grease filter captures the majority of airborne grease before it ever enters your ductwork. It's one of the cheapest and most effective fire prevention tools available.

PMAFP supplies custom-sized grease filters for any commercial kitchen. 🌍

✅ Quality. Safety. Performance. Because healthier environments start with cleaner air.

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🍳 Product Spotlight: Grease Filters — Heavy-Duty Protection for Commercial Kitchens and CanopiesEvery commercial kitchen...
06/08/2026

🍳 Product Spotlight: Grease Filters — Heavy-Duty Protection for Commercial Kitchens and Canopies

Every commercial kitchen, restaurant, and food production facility has one thing in common: grease-laden air. Without the right filtration, that grease builds up in your canopy, your ducting, your fans — and eventually becomes a serious fire hazard. PMAFP's grease filters are built to handle the heat. 🔥

⭐ About our grease filters:
✔ Manufactured locally in South Africa for fast turnaround ✔ Available in custom sizes to fit any canopy or extraction hood ✔ Constructed from durable materials designed to withstand high-temperature kitchen environments ✔ Efficient grease capture to protect downstream ducting and fans ✔ Easy to remove, clean, and reinstall — minimising kitchen downtime ✔ Suitable for restaurants, hotels, hospitals, schools, food manufacturing, and more

🔧 What grease filters protect: 🏭 Your extraction ducting — grease build-up in ducts is a major fire risk ⚙️ Your exhaust fans — grease-coated fan blades lose efficiency and can fail 🌬️ Air quality in your kitchen environment 📋 Your compliance with fire safety and occupational health regulations 💰 Your equipment — extending the lifespan of your extraction system

A clean grease filter is one of the simplest, most cost-effective fire prevention measures in any commercial kitchen.

PMAFP supplies grease filters in custom sizes — measured and made to order.

✅ Quality. Safety. Performance. Because healthier environments start with cleaner air.

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💡 Tip: Panel Filters vs Pocket Filters — Which One Does Your System Need?Panel filters and pocket filters are both commo...
05/08/2026

💡 Tip: Panel Filters vs Pocket Filters — Which One Does Your System Need?

Panel filters and pocket filters are both common in HVAC systems — but they serve different purposes, and choosing the wrong one can cost you efficiency, air quality, and money. Here's a quick guide to help you choose correctly. ⚙️

⭐ This week's tip: Match the filter type to your system's requirements.

🔲 Panel Filters: ✔ Flat, rigid frame construction with pleated or flat media ✔ Lower initial resistance — good for systems with limited available static pressure ✔ Ideal for pre-filtration stages, fresh air intakes, and general ventilation ✔ Compact depth — fits in shallow filter banks ✔ Available in a wide range of efficiency grades ✔ Best for: commercial buildings, light industrial ventilation, pre-filter stages

🛍️ Pocket Filters: ✔ Multiple fabric pockets extend into the airstream, massively increasing media surface area ✔ Higher dust-holding capacity — longer service intervals between changes ✔ Lower operating resistance compared to flat panels at equivalent efficiency ✔ Better efficiency grades achievable (typically F5–F9) ✔ Best for: AHUs with higher air volumes, fine filtration stages, environments with heavier dust loads

💡 Quick rule of thumb: If you need efficiency and longevity in a medium-to-large AHU — pocket filter. If space is tight or you're pre-filtering before a bag or HEPA stage — panel filter.

Not sure? Give us a call — we'll help you spec it correctly.

✅ Quality. Safety. Performance. Because healthier environments start with cleaner air.

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Monday Motivation"We are the first generation to feel the effect of climate change and the last generation that can do s...
03/08/2026

Monday Motivation

"We are the first generation to feel the effect of climate change and the last generation that can do something about it." — Barack Obama, speaking on the science of environmental change

A bit bigger than filter maintenance — but it's all connected. The choices we make about air quality, energy, and efficiency add up. Let's make this week count. 💪

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🎉 Fun Fact Friday: Activated Carbon — Nature's Most Powerful Odour Absorber🌿 Activated carbon is one of the most remarka...
31/07/2026

🎉 Fun Fact Friday: Activated Carbon — Nature's Most Powerful Odour Absorber

🌿 Activated carbon is one of the most remarkable materials in the world of filtration — and it's been used for thousands of years in one form or another.

⭐ Amazing facts about activated carbon:
✔ Ancient Egyptians used charcoal as a medical treatment and water purifier as far back as 1500 BC ✔ A single gram of activated carbon has a surface area of 500–1500 square metres — roughly the size of a tennis court, packed into a teaspoon ✔ This enormous surface area is created through a process called "activation" — treating carbon with high heat and steam to open up millions of tiny pores ✔ Activated carbon can adsorb molecules as small as 0.35 nanometres — 300 times smaller than the finest HEPA filter can capture ✔ Carbon filters were used in gas masks during World War I to protect soldiers from chemical warfare agents ✔ Modern water treatment plants use activated carbon to remove chlorine, pesticides, and pharmaceutical compounds from drinking water

🌬️ In air filtration: Carbon filters are the go-to solution when the problem is something you can smell — odours, cooking fumes, solvent vapours, VOCs. While HEPA captures particles, carbon captures gases. The two technologies are highly complementary.

At PMAFP, we supply carbon filters in custom sizes for a wide range of applications.

✅ Quality. Safety. Performance.

Because healthier environments start with cleaner air.

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🌿 Product Spotlight: Carbon Filters — When You Need to Eliminate Odours and Gases, Not Just ParticlesStandard air filter...
30/07/2026

🌿 Product Spotlight: Carbon Filters — When You Need to Eliminate Odours and Gases, Not Just Particles

Standard air filters are designed to capture particles — dust, pollen, smoke, bacteria. But what about odours, chemical fumes, and volatile organic compounds (VOCs)? That's where carbon filtration comes in. PMAFP's carbon filters go beyond particle capture to tackle the gases standard filters simply cannot hold. 🧪

At PMAFP, we believe in Precision Filtration. Cleaner Air. Better Performance.

⭐ How carbon filters work:
Activated carbon has an enormous surface area — a single gram can have a surface area of over 500 square metres. Gas molecules and odour compounds are adsorbed onto this surface as air passes through, trapping them within the carbon media rather than allowing them to recirculate.

✔ Effective against odours, VOCs, fumes, and chemical vapours ✔ Available in custom sizes to fit your existing filter housings ✔ Can be used as a standalone stage or in combination with particulate filters ✔ Ideal for environments with strong chemical, biological, or food-related odour challenges

🏭 Where carbon filters make a real difference: 🍳 Commercial kitchens — cooking odours and grease vapours 🏥 Healthcare facilities — chemical and biological odour control 🐾 Veterinary clinics and animal care facilities 🏭 Industrial environments with solvent or chemical vapour exposure 💊
Pharmaceutical manufacturing with process chemical off-gassing 🏢 Offices and buildings near industrial or food processing sources

If your air quality problem is something you can smell rather than see, a carbon filter is likely part of the solution.

✅ Quality. Safety. Performance. Because healthier environments start with cleaner air.

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💡 Tip Tuesday: How to Know When Your Grease Filter Needs Cleaning or ReplacingGrease filters in commercial kitchens and ...
28/07/2026

💡 Tip Tuesday: How to Know When Your Grease Filter Needs Cleaning or Replacing

Grease filters in commercial kitchens and canopy extraction systems are among the hardest-working filters in any building — and among the most frequently neglected. A blocked grease filter isn't just an air quality problem. It's a fire hazard. 🔥

⭐ This week's tip: Stay ahead of grease filter maintenance.
✔ Inspect grease filters visually at least once a week in high-volume kitchens
✔ A filter that looks saturated with grease should be cleaned immediately — don't wait for the schedule
✔ Most commercial kitchen grease filters should be cleaned every 2–4 weeks, depending on cooking volume and style (deep frying loads filters far faster than light cooking)
✔ Look for grease dripping from the filter frame — this means it is fully saturated and a fire risk
✔ Check that airflow through the canopy still feels strong — reduced suction often means a blocked filter before you can see it
✔ Replace rather than clean if the filter mesh is distorted, corroded, or damaged
✔ Always ensure replacement filters are the correct size to prevent bypass gaps

⚠️ Why this matters: Grease-saturated filters are one of the leading causes of commercial kitchen fires in South Africa. A clean filter takes minutes to maintain. A kitchen fire takes everything.

PMAFP supplies grease filters in custom sizes for any canopy or extraction system. 🌍

✅ Quality. Safety. Performance. Because healthier environments start with cleaner air.

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Happy Monday! 🌬️"The first canon of nursing is to keep the air within as pure as the air without." — Florence Nightingal...
27/07/2026

Happy Monday! 🌬️

"The first canon of nursing is to keep the air within as pure as the air without." — Florence Nightingale, pioneer of modern nursing and public health

She figured this out in the 1800s — and it's still just as true today. Clean air isn't a luxury, it's a baseline. Have a great week, everyone! 💪

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🎉 Fun Fact Friday: The Hidden World of Spray Booth Filtration🎨 Did you know that the filtration system in a spray booth ...
24/07/2026

🎉 Fun Fact Friday: The Hidden World of Spray Booth Filtration

🎨 Did you know that the filtration system in a spray booth is one of the most critical — and most overlooked — pieces of safety equipment in any finishing operation?

⭐ Some fascinating facts about spray booths and filtration:
✔ A single spray gun can release up to 40% of its paint as airborne overspray — that's nearly half of every can going straight into the air ✔ Paint particles in the air range from 1 to 100 microns — without filtration, they coat every surface in the booth and beyond ✔ Accumulated dry overspray is highly flammable — many workshop fires have been linked to clogged, unmaintained spray booth exhaust filters ✔ Automotive spray booths typically need intake and exhaust filtration replaced every 100–200 spray hours, depending on the paint type and volume ✔ A properly filtered spray booth can reduce VOC (Volatile Organic Compound) exposure by over 90% compared to an open spray area

🌬️ The two filter stages in a spray booth: 🔵 Intake filters — clean the air entering the booth, preventing dust contamination of the wet paint surface 🔴 Exhaust filters — capture overspray leaving the booth, protecting the environment and equipment downstream

Cleaner filtration = safer workers + better finishes + fewer fire risks. That's a win in every direction. 🏆

At PMAFP, we supply and custom-size spray booth filters for all applications. 🌍
✅ Quality. Safety. Performance. Because healthier environments start with cleaner air.

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🎨 Product Spotlight: Spray Booth Filters — Clean Air for a Flawless FinishIn spray painting and coating environments, fi...
23/07/2026

🎨 Product Spotlight: Spray Booth Filters — Clean Air for a Flawless Finish

In spray painting and coating environments, filtration isn't just about air quality — it's about product quality. Overspray, paint particles, and solvent vapours need to be captured efficiently to protect your workers, your equipment, and the finish on every job. That's exactly what PMAFP's spray booth filters are designed to do.

At PMAFP, we believe in Precision Filtration. Cleaner Air. Better Performance.

⭐ Why spray booth filtration matters:
✔ Captures paint overspray and particulates before they recirculate or escape ✔ Protects downstream exhaust fans and ducting from paint build-up ✔ Helps maintain the clean air environment needed for a high-quality finish ✔ Reduces fire and explosion risk from accumulated flammable overspray ✔ Supports compliance with occupational health and environmental regulations

🔧 PMAFP spray booth filters are: 🎨 Available in custom sizes to fit any booth configuration ⚙️ Suitable for intake (ceiling/roof) and exhaust (floor/wall) filtration stages 🌬️ Designed to handle the high particle loads typical of active spray environments 🔩 Compatible with automotive, industrial, and woodworking spray applications ♻️ Available in disposable media options for easy changeout between jobs

A clean booth produces a clean finish. Don't let poor filtration compromise your work.

✅ Quality. Safety. Performance. Because healthier environments start with cleaner air.

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