Hellan Strainer Company

The Hellan Strainer Company, operating out of Cleveland, Ohio, with an international office in Hereford, United Kingdom, has specialized in self-cleaning fluid straining systems since 1963, when Cleveland Gear Company acquired the original patented design from Norwegian inventor Haakon Hellan. Now a division of Industrial Manufacturing Company (IMC), the firm produces strainers that discharge collected solids from the flow stream without requiring disassembly, enabling continuous fluid processing and reduced maintenance intervals compared with conventional basket designs. The core Hellan Online Cleanable Strainer line comes in automatic, manual, and large-capacity automatic configurations, with cast sizes from 1.5 through 20 inches and fabricated sizes up to 60 inches in cast iron, cast steel, stainless steel, and bronze. Beyond the flagship strainer, the company offers the SSI Standard Fabricated Strainer series covering Y, T, simplex basket, duplex basket, and temporary configurations; Staples and Pfeiffer military strainers built to Navy Mil-Spec; Model FF Suction Diffusers filtering to 40 microns at pressures to 740 PSIG; cooling and filtration skids including hydronic modules, adiabatic V coolers, and evaporative towers; and ASME Code pressure vessels. Hellan holds ISO 9001 certification, carries UL listing and DNV approval, and meets American Bureau of Shipping and Lloyd's Register standards. End markets include US Navy and military, data centers, power generation, oil and gas, petrochemical, steel, HVAC, fire protection, municipal water, and food and beverage.