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VortX

Safely Filter Smoke & Odor from any Roaster

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Replace Your Afterburner

3 Great & Green Benefits

  1. Reduce smoke and odor using an Eco-friendly method

  2. Cut your natural gas costs in the face of rapidly rising gas prices

  3. Help the planet & your neighbors

No Afterburners

EcoFilter™ Green Alternative to an Afterburner

EcoFilter

Clean Air Innovation in the Coffee Roasting Industry

The EcoFilter uses the energy of a cyclone plus the power of atomized water to filter particulates from exhaust air, mute odors and reduce visible smoke.

The self-cleaning system recycles its water and requires less than 15 minutes of daily maintenance.

  • Sustainable and eco-friendly
  • Lowest operating cost of all air cleaning methods
  • Easy to install with our complete duct design service
  • Increases the safety of your roasting operation

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  • "We are part of a public market a major retail center in Oxnard, CA. We didn’t want our smoke and odor going into the neighborhood and negatively impacting people’s lives. We want to produce the cleanest air we can using the best method we can, so we are using the VortX to handle the cleaning of our air. It’s awesome because there is minimal cleaning and it’s a much better option for our business."

    Shawn Pritchett, Co-Owner Ragamuffin Coffee Roasters

  • "At CO-RO one of our core values is sustainability and using a traditional afterburner really undermines that core value. The VortX uses water vapor and the only energy the VortX needs is the energy to run the water pump. If you care about the environment you have to look at a better technology and we're really proud to be one of the first installations of the VortX."

    Floy Andrews, CEO of CO-RO, Berkeley

NASA Sends a Warning from the International Space Station:

Scientists reported in October 2022 that new cameras on the ISS are tracking massive plumes of methane (natural gas) leaking from sites where the gas is pumped, transported and stored. This is particularly worrisome to climatologists because methane has 80 times the heat trapping capacity of CO2, pound for pound; curtailing methane emissions can have an immediate effect on planetary warming. The VortX EcoFilter reduces the use of natural gas used by afterburners to zero.

When methane is burned, massive amounts of CO2 are created; stopping the use of natural gas has a huge impact on our race to prevent the planet’s temperature from breaching the 1.5 C (2.7 F) increase above preindustrial levels.

About VortX

Scientists have been warning us for many years that climate change is an existential threat and that we can, we must, do something about it. Every day this deep concern drives us to help our customers, the specialty coffee industry, play a leading role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions while keeping a commitment to clean air and a safe operation.

We founded VortX because we knew there had to be a better way to filter smoke and odor, or more precisely – particulates, VOCs and products of combustion from coffee roasting exhaust.

When we discovered the impact made by instantly cooling the hot, dirty air from a roaster, the VortX EcoFilter was born. We sold our first unit in 2017 and in 5 short years we have established customers on 6 continents. These “early adopters” helped us focus on refining and improving our technology. We love every one of them; they helped us make the EcoFilter the impressive solution it is today.

We continue to serve the retrofit market and we are now building products for roaster manufacturers who are bringing to market a new generation of smokeless/odorless roasters.