KATALOX LIGHT®
Advanced Filtration Media
Filtration of
• Suspended solids
• Sediments
• Turbidity
• Organics
• Color
• Odor
Removal of
• Iron
• Manganese
• Hydrogen Sulfide
• Arsenic
• Radium
• Heavy Metals
• Radionuclides
Advantages
• High content MnO2 coating (10%)
• Very High Surface Area
• Contains NO Crystalline Silica
• Light Weight - providing significant savings on backwash water
• Higher Filtration rates
• Filtration of sand, sediment, and suspended solids, down to 3 micron
• High-efficiency removal capacity of Iron, Manganese and Hydrogen sulfide
• Effective reduction of Arsenic, Zinc, Copper, Lead, Radium, Uranium, radionuclides and other heavy metals
• Media replacement every 7 - 10 years
• No disinfection by-product
• No mandatory KMnO4, chlorine or chlorine dioxide dosing
• Low operational costs
• A unique product, unmatched by our competitors
*Shipping Notice for Bags of Filtration Media and Resins:
- Due to the weight of some of the filtration media and Resin bags, they require specialized logistics and heavy-duty handling during shipping.
- This fact necessitates that additional shipping charges be added to the price of some of the filtration media and Resin Bags for secure, professional transport of them.
- However, you can completely avoid these extra shipping costs by choosing to collect yourself or sending your own couriers to collect from our warehouse in Centurion, Pretoria.
- This option can be selected when placing your order through the online store or by contacting our sales staff, and requesting this option.
- **Please note that by opting for independent collection either by yourself or by your own courier, you assume full responsibility for any potential transit damage, and Filtershop will not be liable for issues arising once the unit has left our facility.
What is Katalox Light®?
KATALOX LIGHT® is a new brand of revolutionary advanced filtration media completely developed in Germany. It‘s composition simply makes it outstanding against the contemporary filter media available in water treatment industries, like sand, BIRM, Greensand Plus, Manganese Greensand, etc. KATALOX LIGHT® is manufactured in Germany.
KATALOX LIGHT® is engineered with a unique MnO2 coating technique on ZEOSORB®, providing it lightweight, higher filtration surface, more service life and more reliable performance (filtration down to 3 μm) than any other existing granular filter media.
KATALOX LIGHT® is being used in numerous system for residential, commercial, industrial and municipal applications worldwide, for High-level filtration, color and odor removal, Iron, Manganese, Hydrogen sulfide removal, efficient reduction of Arsenic, Zinc, Copper, Lead, Radium, Uranium and other radionuclides and heavy metals.
KATALOX LIGHT® is Certified to NSF/ANSI-61 standard for drinking water applications and has met the ANSI/NSF 372 Lead-free compliance.



