Tekleen Automatic Filters

What Tekleen Automatic Filters does

Tekleen Automatic Filters, LLC is a privately held manufacturer and distributor of automatic, self-cleaning water filtration and strainer systems, founded circa 1985 and headquartered in Santa Fe Springs, California. The company's core technology is a self-cleaning filtration mechanism that removes suspended solids down to 2 microns while maintaining uninterrupted flow during backwash cycles, enabling continuous operation under peak demand conditions. Product offerings are centered on the Automatic Self-Cleaning Water Filter platform, extended into industry-specific variants for steel production cooling systems, data center cooling and dewatering, and source-specific filtration systems customized to local water conditions.

The company sells custom-engineered, high-ticket industrial filtration solutions directly to enterprise buyers across industrial manufacturing, steel production, data centers, municipal water treatment, agricultural irrigation, and commercial cooling applications. Pricing is not publicly disclosed and solutions are tailored to each facility's water profile and operating requirements. The firm operates as a small organization (1-10 employees) without disclosed external funding, and is led by CEO Nagui Elyas and CRO Dan Flanick. Recent strategic activity includes a 2024 headquarters expansion, an October 2025 source-specific filtration strategy launch under the Tekleen ABW brand, and a February 2026 full-flow filtration and dewatering strategy targeting data center cooling water and near-zero liquid discharge requirements.

Name

Tekleen Automatic Filters

Legal name

Tekleen Automatic Filters, LLC

Website

https://tekleen.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1985

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Industrial Water Filtration Equipment

NAICS

Totalizing Fluid Meter and Counting Device Manufacturing (334514)

SIC

Pumps & Pumping Equipment (3561)

akta.pro primary industry

Filtration & Water Treatment for Irrigation (Sand/Disc/Screen, Chem Treatment) (AFAAACAD)

akta.pro secondary industry

Dewatering & Temporary Groundwater Control (IMAFAKAH)

Keywords

• Automatic water filters
• Self-cleaning filtration systems
• Industrial water filtration
• Cooling tower filters
• Water strainer equipment

Headquarters

HQ city

Los Angeles

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Operations, Supply Chain, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Water Filtration Equipment Sales: Sale of automatic self-cleaning water filtration systems and custom solutions for industrial, municipal, and commercial applications. Revenue derived from equipment sales with associated installation and potentially maintenance services.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Core offering

Tekleen Automatic Filters designs, manufactures, and sells automatic self-cleaning water filters and strainers for industrial, municipal, and agricultural applications. The systems perform continuous filtration with self-initiated backwash that preserves uninterrupted flow, and are custom-configured by source water conditions and end-use requirements such as cooling tower makeup, process water, irrigation, and data center cooling.

Product overview

Tekleen Automatic Filters offers a portfolio of automatic self-cleaning water filtration solutions centered on their core Automatic Self-Cleaning Water Filters. The product line extends to industry-specific offerings including Steel Production Cooling System Filters and Data Center Water Filtration Solutions with dewatering capabilities. Additional offerings include Source-Specific Filtration Systems customized by water source conditions, and Custom Water Filtration Solutions for industrial, irrigation, municipal, and cooling applications. All products are designed to maintain uninterrupted flow during backwash, supporting continuous operation under peak demand conditions.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Automatic Self-Cleaning Water Filters Industrial-grade automatic self-cleaning filtration systems that maintain uninterrupted flow during backwash cycles, designed for continuous operation under peak demand conditions in cooling systems, process water applications, and industrial operations.
• Steel Production Cooling System Filters Specialized automatic self-cleaning water filters for steel production cooling systems that achieve up to 90 percent water savings compared to conventional sand media filtration, reducing water use from approximately 1,500 gallons per backwash cycle to roughly 50 gallons.
• Data Center Water Filtration Solutions Full flow water filtration and dewatering solutions for data centers combining cooling tower and chiller makeup water filtration, cycles of concentration optimization, point of discharge filtration, and advanced dewatering to enable internal water reuse and near-zero liquid discharge goals with suspended solids removal down to 2 microns.
• Tekleen ABW Source-Specific Filtration Systems Customized filtration systems based on water source conditions, designed to reduce water waste and improve operational resilience for industrial and municipal facilities, offering lower operational costs, higher efficiency, and better water conservation.
• Custom Water Filtration Solutions Bespoke water filtration systems tailored to specific industrial, irrigation, municipal, and cooling sector requirements, addressing equipment protection and reliability as part of broader operational strategy.

Quantifiable outcome

• Up to 90 percent water savings compared to conventional sand media filtration (1,500 gallons per backwash reduced to ~50 gallons)
• +5 more outcomes

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Direct peers

• Orival Inc. Orival manufactures automatic self-cleaning water filters for industrial, irrigation, and cooling applications — a near-identical product category, customer base, and value proposition to Tekleen. Direct head-to-head competitor in the self-cleaning filter niche.
• Amiad Water Systems: Amiad specializes in automatic self-cleaning filters and fine filtration for industrial, irrigation, and municipal markets globally. Closely comparable product technology, end markets, and self-cleaning mechanism to Tekleen.
• Lakos Separators and Filtration Systems: Lakos manufactures centrifugal and self-cleaning separation/filtration systems for cooling tower, irrigation, and industrial water applications. A comparable mid-sized specialist serving the same cooling and industrial use cases as Tekleen.

Broad incumbents

• Eaton Corporation: Eaton offers a broad industrial filtration portfolio (including automatic self-cleaning filters) as part of a much larger electrical and industrial conglomerate. Competes with Tekleen in cooling tower and process water applications but serves many more product categories.
• Parker Hannifin: Parker Hannifin's Industrial Filtration division supplies filters, separators, and engineered solutions for industrial process water, cooling, and manufacturing — overlapping directly with Tekleen's core industrial and cooling-tower use cases.
• Pall Corporation (Danaher): Pall manufactures industrial filtration and separation solutions for process water, microelectronics, and manufacturing — including self-cleaning systems. A larger incumbent competing for the same industrial water customers as Tekleen.
• Donaldson Company:
• Xylem: Xylem is a global water technology company providing pumps, filtration, and treatment solutions for industrial, municipal, and commercial water users. Sells into the same municipal and industrial cooling/process water segments as Tekleen at much larger scale.
• Veolia Water Technologies: Veolia provides industrial water treatment systems, filtration, and recycling solutions to industrial and municipal customers worldwide. Overlaps with Tekleen on industrial and municipal water filtration projects at a much larger scale.
• Roper Technologies (industrial water portfolio): Roper owns multiple industrial water and process technology businesses (e.g., Neptune, FTI) serving similar industrial and municipal water customers. A diversified incumbent rather than a direct filter peer, but competes indirectly for the same wallet share.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/tekleen
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/tekleen-automatic-filters

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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