CHICAGO—Culligan, a leading provider of advanced filtration and water softening solutions, recently unveiled its High Efficiency (HE) Water Softener as part of its Culligan Matrix Solutions water treatment systems, which provide greater flexibility, speed to market and cost savings to commercial companies. Culligan’s HE Water Softener offers commercial users a range of advanced features and options based on their unique water usage and quality requirements. Its unique design addresses the most common user concerns such as: operating, labor and maintenance costs, as well as the impact of poor water quality on operational efficiency and customer service levels.
“Selecting the right pre-treatment solution is the first step commercial users can take to help reduce scale, extend the life of their equipment, reduce maintenance costs and promote consistent production,” said Kerry Quinn, vice president engineering, Culligan International. “The Culligan HE Softener can help users achieve accelerated return on investment and improved operational efficiency.”
Users can customize the system with these product features:
• Aqua-Sensor: Culligan’s patented digital Aqua-Sensor adjusts to influent water conditions and signals the need for regeneration based on resin bed exhaustion and controls the duration of the regeneration cycle. As a result, customers are able to reduce operating costs and accelerate return on investment through significant water and salt savings.
• Brine Reclaim: Users can cut their salt consumption up to 25 percent with Culligan’s brine reclaim feature. With this feature in place, the system can be designed based on a user’s overall water management and wastewater minimization needs, as well as their sustainability goals.
• Culligan Smart Controller: The exclusive Culligan Smart Controller allows users to monitor their water treatment equipment’s performance; consumable usage and equipment maintenance needs at a single site or across multiple ones 24 hours a day. With this feature, users can reduce labor costs associated with maintaining the system.
• Telemetry: With telemetry options, users can connect the system via landline or cellular phone to qualified Culligan service technicians. This allows Culligan to monitor the system centrally and service it locally. Monitoring options include: days since last regeneration, brine line blockage and number of salt days remaining.
Additionally, the Culligan HE Water Softener also addresses common ease-of-use challenges. Its remote display can be placed up to 200 feet away from the softener, making it easy to monitor the system even if it is located in an area that is difficult to access or far from a manager’s office. Additionally, the system’s five-year battery back-up retains programming parameters and historical data, which eliminates the need to reset parameters after a power outage.
As part of the Culligan Matrix Solutions advanced line of water softeners, the Culligan HE Water Softener reduces the accumulation of harmful scale in equipment caused by iron, calcium, magnesium and manganese ions. Softened water can reduce the impact of poor quality water in a range of commercial applications, such as:
• Decreased water usage and improved softness when cleaning hotel linens; and
• Lowered maintenance and operating costs associated with the cleaning and sanitization of food service equipment.
