If you have spent decades around spray booths, there is a good chance you know the name Binks. For generations of Australian operators, Binks was shorthand for the concertina paper filter that sat in the exhaust wall and quietly did its job, cycle after cycle. Many painters trained on booths fitted with these filters and have ordered them by that name ever since. So when a search for Binks filters turns up little of use today, the natural question is whether the product has disappeared. It has not.
The Product You Know Has a New Name
The concertina paper filter that operators knew under the Binks name lives on today as the Andreae filter. Andreae is the name behind the pleated paper filter design that became a global standard in spray booth dry filtration, and it is the brand under which the product is manufactured and sold today. If you have been searching for Binks concertina filters and coming up empty, the Andreae range is where your search ends. Same concept, same format, current name.
This matters because plenty of experienced operators are still ordering by memory. They know the size, they know the fold, and they know how the filter behaves under load. The only thing that has changed is the label on the box.
What Has Changed and What Has Not
Here is the reassuring part. The concertina paper filter design itself has not fundamentally changed. The accordion style pleat that gives the filter its name still works the same way it always has. Air carrying paint overspray is drawn through a series of angled paper baffles, and the overspray is deposited progressively through the depth of the pleats rather than caking on the surface. That progressive loading is exactly why the design has outlasted so many alternatives.
What separates a quality concertina filter from a poor one has never been the concept. It is the media quality and the pleat precision. Consistent paper weight, accurate hole punching, and uniform pleat geometry determine how much overspray a filter holds before airflow drops, and how evenly it loads across its face. Andreae filters continue the tradition of quality concertina paper filtration that operators trusted under the earlier name, which is precisely why AeroFlow Filters stocks them.
Why the Concertina Design Endures
Spray booth filtration has seen decades of new media types, yet the concertina paper filter remains the benchmark for dry overspray arrest in many applications. The reasons are practical. The pleated design offers a very large effective surface area in a compact footprint, which means high overspray holding capacity and longer intervals between changes. Pressure drop rises slowly and predictably as the filter loads, so booth airflow stays stable for longer. Disposal is also simpler than with many synthetic alternatives, since the filter is paper based.
For workshops measuring costs across a year rather than a single filter change, those properties translate directly into fewer changeouts, less downtime, and steadier booth performance. Stable airflow also means your extraction fans work less to move the same volume of air, which shows up in electrical running costs over time. That is the same value proposition operators bought into decades ago. It still holds.
Ordering With Confidence Under the New Name
When you place your first order under the Andreae name, a few checks make the transition seamless. Confirm the dimensions of your exhaust openings, since sizes you memorised years ago are worth verifying against the booth itself. Note the format your booth takes, whether individual panels or continuous rolls cut to length. If you kept records of your old order codes, share them with your supplier, because an experienced filtration specialist can cross reference legacy specifications to the current range. Five minutes of checking prevents the frustration of a filter that almost fits.
Finding Your Replacement Through AeroFlow Filters
If you have been running booths since the Binks days, you do not need to relearn anything. You simply need a supplier who recognises what you are asking for. AeroFlow Filters understands the history, stocks the current Andreae range in Australia, and ships with fast dispatch from local stock. Whatever your booth brand and whatever size format your exhaust wall takes, AeroFlow Filters can match the concertina filter to suit.
There is no need to keep searching under a name that no longer appears on the box. The filter you trusted is still made, still pleated with precision, and still available locally.
