The Sureflow Blog
Rocket Science, Jet Propulsion and Industrial Valves and Strainers
You can always tell when someone likes their job … they do the same stuff at home on their own time. That’s the way it is with Patrick Clarke, Sure Flow Equipment’s International Technical Sales CSR. Patrick spends his days finding technical solutions to his...
Strainer End Connections, a Short Review
As we continue with our regular discussions of strainer basics, we will review strainer end connections which can come in four main types. Iron strainers tend to be furnished either with flanged or threaded end connections. Bronze, steel, and stainless steel strainers...
From O-Rings to Covers, It’s All About the Customer
Sure Flow Equipment provides high quality industrial valves and strainers to a wide of variety of industries and applications. Strainers come in different sizes, in different materials, with different screen materials and sizes, etc. So the variations and permutations...
We Work Great Under Pressure at Sure Flow… and So Do Our Strainers!
Sure Flow manufactures a huge variety of industrial strainers and valves. These products end up in an even greater variety of industrial processes, some which are really quite amazing. While we always prefer lots of turnaround time for our standard fabrication from...
Cycling for Strong Kids Again This Spring
“Neither rain, nor snow, nor…” well, there wasn’t dark of night, but there were ice pellets and freezing rain … and yet some Sure Flow employees still participated in the 2018 Burlington Family YMCA Cycle for Kids fundraiser in support of “Strong Kids.” Raising money...
The Year-Round Short-Wearing Guy Who Skates Around Logistical Challenges
The dreams of making it to the big leagues die hard. Sure Flow Equipment’s ‘Shipping and Assembly Supervisor’ Vern Walker still spends Thursday nights on the ice, dreaming of that call from an NHL scout calling him up for a try out. Knowing the average age of players...
A Strainer for All Seasons – and Applications
We’ve looked at more traditional strainers like basket and Y strainers, but Sure Flow offers a whole series of special application strainers. This is why we hope you’ll contact us if you have an application where you’re just not sure a standard strainer is...
Sure Biscuit The Wonder Horse another Industrial Work of Art
Sometimes the coolest projects grow out of a simple idea. Like someone looking at pile of scrap metal and saying, “You know, we should build a horse out of that!” So began the saga of “Sure Biscuit”, Sure Flow Equipment’s latest mascot creation, fabricated by our...
No Two Days the Same for Brad Robertson
Sometimes when you’ve worked at a place for more than 20 years, people just assume you can do everything, and that seems to be the case with Brad Robertson. Brad works in the Sure Flow Equipment warehouse and manufacturing facility and is in constant motion. His prime...
Basket Strainers: The Basic Building Block of Downstream Protection of Mechanical Equipment
Basket Strainers remain one of the most common systems for downstream protection of mechanical equipment. Basket Strainers feature top removal of the screen. The screen is in the form of a basket, with a lifting handle, so that all particulate captured and...