Water Treatment: Gravity Sand Filter (Municipal / Industrial)
Manufacturers: Past and Present
- Cochrane / Crane Cochrane [Crane – Warlo]: Newterra
- Evoqua: Leopold: Xylem
- Graver (Marmon)
- Hungerford & Terry
- Infilco
- Leopold: Xylem
- Newterra
- Ovivo
- Permutit (softener division started in the 1910s) (Permutit USA begun in the 1910s; became part of US Filter in 1993)
- Roberts Filter Group
- Smith Loveless
- Suez / Degremont
- Veolia: Greenleaf: Dusenflo
- WesTech
- WETS LLC
- Wigen
- Xylem: Leopold: Evoqua
Note: There were early designs of “Automatic Valveless Gravity Filters.”
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