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THE EASIEST THING IN THE WORLD?
HOW TO CHANGE WATER CARTRIDGE (TUTORIAL)
PROFINE MAIN SPONSOR EGUAL IN THE WIND
We support the Water Festival 2013
Profine supports The Water Festival, the most complete Italian manifestation of the water sector.
A meeting of a Technical / Scientific / Institutional / Cultural nature and Information / Events and Entertainment, all focused on the Water.
During the 2013 edition Profine® participated with the project “Pensa Acqua”, a new initiative to raise awareness of all citizens to drink their own water at home. Tuesday, 8 October at 18:45.
Designed and promoted by Federutility – the federation that combines all Italian water services and represents Italy in the European and global organisms- the Water Festival is not a fair, but a convention that every two years, for a week, collects the 400 companies member of the Federation and all those who in different ways dealing with water services and utilities.
For more information about the event click here.
Ocra and Violet for a good coffee!
The story of espresso is a story that starts from the roasted and ground coffee bean that meets the water and turns into a moment of pause appreciated all over the world.
It is from the Italian tradition of good coffee that come also the care for water, whether hot water or steam. Depending on the different styles of preparation and consumption, working with water without limescale gives taste and practical benefits to all sector professionals.
As well as control of the raw material requires knowledge of the provenance of the best coffee beans and the various processes of mixing, you should not exclude from this culture of good coffee the quality of water too. In fact the use of water without unpleasant tastes or odours thus becomes a fundamental requirement for any barman.
Moreover, everyone knows that where water hardness is brought down, the machine works better and longer. Indeed, water is a living element that brings with it various substances met in its natural route. Calcium is one of these. Block it before it reaches pipes, boilers and steam nozzles of coffee machines means to lengthen life of the same by eliminating the risks associated with limestone deposits.
The Profine® filters dedicated to the world of coffee keep intact the organoleptic characteristics of water, ensuring water to do its best work to have a excellent coffee.
How to change water cartridge (tutorial)
The cartridges Profine® are the most economical and effective water treatment in trade. According to their color cartridges Profine® give a different treatment for specific water uses.
It is essential for proper management, replace the cartridges exhaustion. The video shows all the steps to install the new Profine® .
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Kit Profine
Saving up to 1000 times on the purchase of “drinking” water is possible thanks to Profine® technologies. The company, from Padua (Italy), in fact proposes kit of reverse osmosis filtration to be used even at home.
More and more families are choosing to satisfy their thirst with the water of your own home: a km zero water which reduces the use of PET bottles that are difficult to transport and bulky.
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Profine® is a brand that expresses the company’s mission and passion
Here the the objective is giving the best in terms of guarantee and quality; so that Water, that is the essential source for our sustenance, would become an excellence. A new offer, Made in Italy, where every single component is controlled and certified.
It is the first Italian company that has a complete production program for Water treatment, to have systems that find their own application in varied fields, from Domestic to Ho.Re.Ca, from Beverage to Vending, without forgetting Oem supply and partnership activity in industry.
Now this is possible thanks to Profine® cartridge range.
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THE CASE OF ARSENIC IN DRINKING WATER
ARSENIC IN WATER OF MAYOR,
ALREADY 1585 FAMILIES HAVE A SOLUTION AT HOME
After the new rebuke from the European Union which requires lowering the allowable limits for arsenic in drinking water, in reality many families over the past three years have already protected their children with solutions at the point of use.
Safeguard human health is also crucial for Italians. And if in the years we are now accustomed to know that the exceptions and limits of heavy metals in drinking water are too high, certainly people cannot ignore it. Thus, even if the EU continues to warn us and to open new offenses because arsenic is still too high and we put a risk the health of our children; actually we did much to find a remedy.
And though in recent years the issue of water supplies, especially in the 37 areas involved in Lazio, the question remained how to intervene to remove this heavy metal, the most immediate and cost our citizens have found themselves involved.And it is a continuous and silent movement, the one of the Italian families who have analyzed its water and tried to find a simple and economic way to protect yourself, for a total of 1,585 families involved directly or indirectly from 2011 until today.
The step easier in fact to bring home the solution and to be sure even when you prepare a pasta dish with tap water is to install a cartridge that removes arsenic from drinking water that is placed under the sink: Profine® Arsenic.
Profine ® Arsenic is intended for the treatment of drinking water in the terms of laws. It is absolutely forbidden to use the system to deal with non-potable water or of uncertain origin or at least that is microbiologically contaminated. The removal product used is approved and certified to NSF / ANSI Standard 061 and British WRAS ERRAP (2004) 3 for use in drinking water.
Find out how do you save if you use tap water!
Have you ever counted how much do you spend per year on bottled water? Do you know how many bottles you and your family produce and what impact they have in the area? If you had never had the time or the will to do this reflection find it out now using Profine® calculator.
To know much read complete article.
Do you want to know more about Profine® Arsenico cartridges?
Profine® Arsenic is also available in 3 sizes depending on haow much water you need. If you are a family, you have a commercial activity as restaurat, bar or hotel or if you use network water in industial proccesses; choose your size.
To read more go to technical details.
Up to 45.000 litres of filtered water with Profine®
Our laboratories confirm: Profine® Silver Large cartridges filter up to 45000 litres of water. The same safe water as the one of three pools put together with a single cartridge.
To know more read complete article.
Profine® KIT
Using Profine Kit, everybody can have all refined water advantages at home.

Would you like to open your tap and know that the water you are drinking is the best that you could drink? Good an safe? Now this is easier. Drinking a reliable water with the all organoleptic characteristics that you prefer, at home, without going to the supermarket, is simple now. Last researches and technical experimentations have given life to a new product, easy to use, economical and efficient in results. We are speaking about new filtration kit, a minimal kit that enclose every water treatment system rudiment. How? With a cartridge of recent generation linked to an head and to a tap, filtration kit is the easier instrument to refine water, without installation difficulty. A trade request that is now realized by higher quality components, reduced to essential. The instrument easier for those who approach the philosophy of refining home water. Made entirely in the company, with components selected from the best producers in the world, the kit not only is economical but also reaches the top in terms of efficiency and of available “know-how”, thanks to the years of study that led to the realization of all made in Italy Profine® cartridges. Ideal for domestic use, the kit don’t require a special maintenance or care. Its maintenance consists only in replacing the exhausted filter because of it is devoid of electric motor and pump (and therefore more silent). When the blue led, present in the tap, turns off and red led appears, operation for changing the worn out cartridge with a new one costs you only a few minutes to insert Profine in a practical head. Like all water treatment applications, once bought, the kit is placed under the sink and the included tap is placed near the main water valve and connected to it for water flow. Nowadays, the kit is the first technology in “easy” size that meets the needs to contain prices of family consumption, for performances that give the certainty of always having constant healthy water at home, at zero km and less expensive, with a family saving that comes to an average of 300 euros per year. With Profine® cartridges the kit is the ultimate goal of a technology that thinks about welfare and convenience combined with the new frontiers of environmental respect and saving.
What is the right water for you?
It seems impossible that as soon as a person – whether young or old, whether student, housewife or worker – knows that I deal with water treatment, the question remains always the same: what water should I drink?

It’s a strange feeling and quite embarrassing because from being an “assembler under the stairs”, as often the press and the public like to label us manufacturers of manual treatment, I become a guru of water, a person towards which to pour the utmost confidence.
But the answer is very simple. Sophistry or analysis on the contribution saline in water are useless. Drink the water that you like, nothing so complex. But in the common culture has not yet passed the notion that people can choose to get out of their tap the water they prefer. A simple matter of taste.
It’s true that the technology often has the need to be understood before being accepted by the public that, in this case, consider real water treatment systems “machines sold by fraudsters.”
Can we, however, determine what happens when from the meter, the water after travelling for kilometres, inside pipes get up to home taps? Here many problems rise and they make the final consumers believe that their home water is not good or safe, so as to pour out their purchases on the bottles or pseudo treatment systems, for example the jugs with their cartridges, when the best solution is just a specific treatment.
Think:Water is a certified company, structured and above all professional, which analyses each step, each component and it is never satisfied with the knowledge attained, because it is always looking for what you can do more about an issue so vital. In short, we are talking about water, and it is not something so trivial, it is the basis of our body and of our own lives.
Now we would like this knowledge and professionalism of Think:Water came out of the simple world of production, and entered through the commercial and installers or employee of the maintenance because the message of refined water arrives in every home and to every person and not just only to those with which I speak about water.
Often, we thinkers and researchers of the water, we who immerse our sleeves in technology, we are qualified, by public opinion, as an “rag tag army” ready to sell everything to everyone and at all costs. But no, indeed not at all.
Today officials of Uls and Nas debunk this thought. They participated in the study days organized by TIFQ, about this issue: the treatment of drinkable water. A story, this of drinkable water treatment, told entirely in the following pages, just to make it clear to everyone that the best water to drink can be the same from your tap. How? Find out it in the next pages …
Franco Carlotto, General Manager Think: Water
Per un uso consapevole dell’acqua
Dalla legislazione ai sistemi di trattamento. Tutto quello che dovremmo sapere dell’acqua.
PREMESSA – Proprio in questo periodo si è avviato in ambito nazionale un importante dibattito che vede coinvolti sia soggetti istituzionali, aziende e associazioni con la consapevolezza di dovere promuovere iniziative non più procrastinabili per un uso più consapevole della risorsa acqua sia per questioni economiche che ambientali. L’accendersi dei riflettori su questo delicato argomento, vede coinvolti in prima fila anche le associazioni di categoria e consumatori e ciò contribuisce ad ampliare i termini del dibattito portando in evidenza ciò che da anni noi costruttori tra mille difficoltà e diffidenze cerchiamo di sottolineare.
Le aziende serie e consapevoli da sempre hanno sviluppato prodotti tecnologicamente sempre più evoluti, conformi alle più restrittive normative a livello europeo e proponendo noi stessi normative a tutela del consumatore finale. In questo settore si è dimostrato che quando si parla di responsabilità sociale d’impresa, parola troppo spesso genericamente usata, qui si è tradotta in fatti concreti che pongono l’Italia al vertice per qualità dei prodotti presentati e per innovazione tecnologica e rispondente ai requisiti sanitari più restrittivi. Per anni con una informazione corretta e puntuale abbiamo concorso allo sviluppo di normative sempre più stringenti in materia di costruzione e qualità dei prodotti e con rigore scientifico in piena trasparenza e con equilibrio in collaborazione con gli enti di controllo, abbiamo contribuito al perfezionamento delle leggi vigenti in materia con il solo scopo di regolamentare e disciplinare la costruzione delle apparecchiature al punto d’uso.
I nostri migliori alleati in questa lunga battaglia ideologica oggi sono i gestori degli acquedotti pubblici che nell’andare degli anni hanno elevato gli standard qualitativi sino ad essere considerati tra i migliori in Europa, mentre l’uso di acqua in bottiglia, in questi anni ha raggiunto volumi vertiginosi tali che una sola rete distributiva italiana vanta la vendita di 600 milioni di bottiglie all’anno! Lasciando irrisolti dal punto di vista solistico i problemi di fondo: sono scelte che hanno costi elevati per ogni famiglia e anche per la collettività visto l’enorme quantitativo di plastica da riciclare e il costo energetico per spostare questi volumi da una parte all’altra della penisola con emissione di enormi quantità di CO2. Pensate si è calco- lato che mettendo in fila tutti i tir adibiti al trasporto dell’acqua in un anno si avrebbe una fila che potrebbe unire Mosca a Roma!
Nonostante il DM 443/90 disciplini con precisione le grandi famiglie dei sistemi di trattamento acqua, in questo periodo sono comparsi sul mercato prodotti non sempre ben definiti generando possibili confusioni nel consumatore e su ciò che sta realmente per acquistare. Chiariamo che la parola generica di “depuratore” o “filtro” nella applicazione al punto d’uso non definiscono praticamente nulla in quanto sono enunciazione talmente generiche applicabili ad un principio fisico, perciò nel nostro caso parleremo di filtrazione fine membrana o a cartuccia che devono per definizione trattare acqua potabile. Siamo perfettamente a conoscenza che alcune aziende, disinvolte, hanno posto in vendita “caraffe filtranti” definendoli filtri quando esse sono volgarmente una manciata di resina e una manciata di carbone a tamponarne l’acidità che NON è in grado di filtrare assolutamente nulla come l’ingannevole presentazione farebbe presupporre. Detto per inciso secondo il mio modesto parere esse non rientrano assolutamente nel DM di riferimento e dati i pesanti rilasci batterici non supererebbero le analisi di laboratorio e perciò NON sono approvate per la commercializzazione secondo le leggi italiane vigenti in materia. Dato il basso costo di acquisto imperversano ormai in ogni supermercato, ma leggendo attentamente le istruzioni d’uso allegate che ne indicano i limiti, se ne intuiscono i potenziali pericoli… infatti debbono essere conservate in frigorifero, per nessuna ragione lasciate all’esterno con acqua al loro interno etc… ciò indica che il timore di possibili inquinamenti batterici è elevatissimo. In pratica esse sono assimilabili a scambiatori di ioni e quindi per questa ragione non possono essere definiti filtri perché appunto non sono in grado di garantire nessun grado di filtrazione nei confronti delle sostanze in disciolte o di rimozione di metalli pesanti, nitriti o batteri, anzi ne possono diventarne l’incubatrice se non osservate scrupolosamente le prescrizioni d’uso.
Per la legislazione italiana quando si parla di impianti trattamento acqua ad uso potabile e di rispondenza dei materiali utilizzati alle norme vigenti, vorrei sottolineare che solo una certificazione ufficiale ottenuta attraverso un organismo terzo istituzionale indipendente, nel nostro caso TIFQ, è in grado di garantire la conformità del prodotto alle normative vigenti e garantire l’esistenza di un protocollo di prova approvato dopo lunghi test in laboratorio e quindi garantendo la validazione del prodotto.
Tralasciando i filtri a cartuccia grossolani che la legge prevede essere di tipo lavabile e con un grado di filtrazione uguale o superiore ai 60 Micron definiamo le diverse tipologie “point of use” in relazione le loro capacità di affinaggio con una brevissima descrizione.
MICROFILTRAZIONE
La microfiltrazione prevede l’uso di cartucce o membrane polimeriche in foggia di cartucce con un grado di filtrazione orientativamente compreso tra i 10 e i 0,1 Mcr La microfiltrazione consente di erogare acqua di elevata purezza e nel taglio più basso consente di trattenere i batteri che potrebbero proliferare nell’acqua o negli impianti di adduzione.
ULTRAFILTRAZIONE
Ad un livello più elevato di filtrazione ovvero più fine troviamo l’ultrafiltrazione che rappresenta il primo passo nel mondo delle membrane dove il taglio molecolare è compreso tra i 0,1 e i 0,001Mcr. Con questa finezza di filtrazione l’ultrafiltrazione è in grado di intervenire sugli ioni ossia ridurre il contenuto salino dell’acqua.
NANOFILTRAZIONE
La nano filtrazione rappresenta il passaggio intermedio tra la ultrafiltrazione e l’osmosi inversa perché con un tenore salino più elevato consente di rigettare circa il 50% dei sali con una efficienza maggiore nei confronti degli ioni bivalenti (tra cui il Calcio e Magnesio il che riduce la durezza dell’acqua) e garantendo la pressoché totale eliminazione dei batteri e sostanze organiche. Una quota parte dell’acqua prodotta deve essere avvia- ta allo scarico per evitare la precipitazione dei sali sulla membrana.
OSMOSI INVERSA
Rappresenta al momento attuale il massimo dell’efficienza nella rimozione degli ioni dell’acqua arrivando a rimuovere anche il 95% dei Sali presenti nell’acqua e
RUBRICA in grado di ridurre sensibilmente la presenza di Nitrati e microinquinanti presenti ormai nelle acque di mezza Europa a causa del progressivo inquina- mento delle falde freatiche. Anche qui una quota parte dell’acqua prodotta deve essere avviata allo scarico per evitare la precipitazione dei Sali sulla membrana.
NUOVE TECNOLOGIE
Altre tecnologie oggi si stanno affacciando sul mercato, che non tratteremo in questa sede perché al momento non rappresentano in modo significativo un installato e le citeremo solo per indicarle:
– elettrodeionizzazione anionicacationica che prevede l’utilizzo di speciali membrane del tipo usa e getta alimentate con corrente elettrica in combinazione con filtri.
– elettrodeionizzazione capacitativa che prevede l’utilizzo di semplici membrane autopulenti alimentate a bassa tensione in grado di abbattere anche la carica batterica ed eliminare i cloro composti.
di Claudio Bacilieri, responsabile tecnico Think:Water
Classe Acqua III
Drinking home water is easy!
The water from our taps is good, safe and controlled.
[Source: Aqua Italia]
Stopping drinking bottled water is not a radical choice; in fact it’s very simple. When you look beyond the glamorous advertising the truth is clear. Tap water is subject to rigorous safeguards, more so than so-called spring water, while drinking from your tap avoids environmental pollution and saves you money! With Profine Kit, the simple, low-cost under-counter installation from Thinkwater, you can revolutionise your life, removing unpleasant odours and tastes to turn your tap in a natural source of water. Simple indeed.
It’s born the water conceived for you
Water is the first necessity of life. Hotels, Restaurants and Catering must ensure the quality of Water to excel in their service. Water to drink, used for food, used to wash or power plants: all this water needs to be treated and guaranteed to the final consumer.
The brand Profine has rethought this vital element, and today gives the “best” Water, through multiple solutions. We have high quality drinking water, filtered and treated as needed, chilled and sparkling as you like.
You also must choose the right concentration of salts for a good coffee: for your machines HoReCa, the line of cartridges Profine guarantees organoleptic characteristics, eliminating the maintenance associated to scaling. For different types of dishwashers and glass washers, assure decrease in consumption of detergent, we respect the environment, we increase the quality of washing, removing the source substances that cause annoying stains on your dishes.
Care for the Water in a Hotel, Restaurant or Catering is a guarantee of high quality and exclusive service. Do not give up, arise Water conceived for you!











