Plastic block and triangular sheet metal lateral underdrain competitors irresponsibly and erroneously state that ORTHOS filter nozzles can break easily. That may be the case for 20th-century nozzle designs; however, ORTHOS manufactures nozzles to be resilient, reliable, and sustainable.
In this video, Stuart F. Humphries, ORTHOS VP-Filtration Technologies, performs his version of nozzle destructive testing. You may see the difference between the robust design of the Orthos Type D nozzle, used in our Centurion™ monolithic underdrains, and that of a legacy competitor.
Learn more about Orthos nozzles in our four-part series here. Also, have we mentioned lately that in almost 27 years and with hundreds of filter installations, ORTHOS has never once, ever, had a Centurion™ monolithic filter underdrain failure? Competition has a completely different experience.
