Hydraulic fluids flow through the filter in a spiral pattern that improves flow, increases absorption capacity, keeps the filter cleaner, and protects hard-working industrial and mobile equipment from contamination. Keeping hydraulic fluids clean and free from contaminants is an ongoing challenge with industrial and mobile hydraulic equipment, and that challenge has only increased as new types of fluids are introduced and more is demanded from high-tech-hydraulic systems. Greater demands for precision, positional accuracy, repeatability, and durability have led to more sophisticated and specialty-engineered hydraulic components, such as high performance valves. Today's industrial applications demand tighter tolerances, as well. These developments have had an unwanted side effect: the more sophisticated the hydraulic component, the more damage that dirt and other contaminants can do. Designers have responded over the years by steadily increasing the sensitivity of filters, and as a result, micron-level filtration is not uncommon today.
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