IX water filter systems

Meet the future of water treatment. WaterCare’s IX Water Filter range is an innovative evolution for the water filtration industry, delivering an infinitely rechargeable and reusable solution for better-quality water. 

Why choose IX water filter systems for your business?

IX Water Filter systems are designed to provide a truly sustainable solution for high-quality water filtration. Designed to provide professional-level performance while offering an eco-friendly alternative to disposable filters through a circular economy approach, IX reduces wastage, saves money and effectively protects your equipment against limescale damage and corrosion. 

Our IX Water collection features tailored solutions for the key industries we serve, from the Barista-optimised IX Café for coffee shops to the IX Vend for high-volume vending solutions. Each product in our range is tailored to the specific challenges and requirements of different applications, ensuring businesses receive the most appropriate filtration solution.

The benefits of IX Water filter systems

Our range of IX Water Filter systems combines sustainable design with innovative functionality and UK-built reliability. We provide a comprehensive testing and analysis service to match the right filtration system with your business requirements.

Tailored filtration solutions

Our comprehensive range of IX Water filters are designed to meet the specific challenges you face, from protecting coffee machines to improving ice clarity.

Buy once, save forever

The IX range features an infinitely reusable casing and head, ensuring minimal waste while helping you save on replacement filter costs.

Made and regenerated in the UK

All IX Water filters are manufactured and regenerated in the UK, ensuring rapid turnaround and providing trusted quality every time.

Superior taste and protection

Powerful protection against the minerals and contaminants found in hard water protects your machinery and ensures consistent, pure taste for your customers.

Our IX water filter range

for coffee & hot drinks

IX Cafe

IX Café filters provide a powerful solution for coffee shops and cafés, delivering an eco-friendly method to achieve the perfect taste and aroma in every cup. Our IX filtration system protects your sensitive and expensive espresso and coffee equipment against limescale build-up with effective, tailored five-stage filtration.

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crystal clear ice everytime

IX Ice

IX Ice filters deliver the visual clarity and taste you want from your ice makers and flakers, providing a positive customer experience and enhancing your drinks. Our IX filtration system is designed to not only provide crystal-clear ice but also protect your equipment from limescale damage, preventing costly breakdowns and repairs to keep your ice-making appliances fully functional.

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steam water treatment

IX Steam

IX Steam filters are specifically designed for the needs of commercial kitchens, providing an effective way to protect and extend the life of combi ovens, pasta cookers, boilers and other steam-generating kitchen equipment. Our IX filtration system removes the harmful minerals that cause limescale, minimising expensive breakdowns and keeping your equipment in top condition.

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The future of water treatment

Our IX Water Filter range marks the evolution of the water filtration industry, with infinitely reusable and rechargeable water treatment that is better for your wallet and the planet. Our mission is to revolutionise the coffee and food service industries, achieving a more sustainable future one filter at a time.

Our IX range encompasses 8 different filters, each tailored to a specific application in the food and beverage industries.

Why choose WaterCare?

Since 1995, our team at WaterCare has provided our customers with eco-friendly water treatment solutions, focused on quality, consistency and excellent service. To this day, we continue to innovate and improve our services with new products, preventative maintenance and filter replacement services to make our customers’ lives easier.

Exceptional quality

The quality of our filters is proven by the quality of water that our customers enjoy. By filtering out contaminants and harmful minerals, you can keep your equipment in great condition for longer.

Protective maintenance

Our proactive approach to maintenance and CTU replacement ensures your water filtration always operates at its best, with a team of qualified experts on hand to keep your systems running smoothly.

Support sustainability

We follow a circular economy model at WaterCare, reducing plastic waste and promoting long-term environmental responsibility through our recycling practices and sustainable choices.

Real customers. Real results.

Commercial water filtration solutions

WaterCare delivers innovative, high-quality water filtration with our IX range of water filters, providing our customers with effective solutions across the hospitality, food service and vending sectors.

Find the right IX Water filter for your business

One water filter won’t fit the needs of every business. That’s why our IX range includes multiple solutions to suit the requirements of our customers, including:

  • IX Café: Barista-optimised to enhance flavour and protect coffee machines.
  • IX Ice: Delivers crystal-clear, taste-perfect ice while reducing scale build-up.
  • IX Steam: Safeguards steam ovens and combi systems from limescale damage.
  • IX Vend: Ensures consistent quality for high-volume vending applications.
  • IX Taste: Provides clean, odour-free water where scale isn’t a key concern.
  • IX Defend: Offers advanced, multi-stage filtration that prevents corrosion, gypsum and scale.
  • IX PFAS: Protects your health by reducing PFAS in your water supply.

Sustainable water filtration solutions

IX Water Filters are made with 98% reusable components and feature a 100% regenerable resin core, significantly reducing the filtration waste generated through your day-to-day operations. If carbon neutrality and eco-friendly practices are priorities for your business, WaterCare's IX range supports your sustainability goals while helping reduce the long-term cost of reliable water filtration. 

IX Water filters for every industry

IX Water Filters offer a solution for a wide range of industries and applications, providing optimal protection against limescale. We provide filtering solutions to fit the demands of a diverse range of customers, including:

  • Coffee shops and cafés
  • Restaurants and bars
  • Commercial kitchens
  • Hospitality venues
  • Offices and healthcare facilities

Leading the way with our dedicated in-house recycling facility

We tackle the problem of single-use plastics head-on with our own in-house recycling centre. We recycle, repurpose and reuse the materials from professional water filters to significantly reduce waste.

  • Collection - We recycle all types and makes of filter
  • Disassembly -We recycle all types and makes of filter
  • Grinding & pellenting - Plastics are ground into pellets for future use
  • Resin reclamation - Resin media is reclaimed, regenerated and ready for reuse

Water treatment solutions trusted across multiple industries

WaterCare provides specialist commercial water treatment solutions across the foodservice, hospitality, coffee, vending and facilities sectors. From independent businesses to national operators, we help organisations manage water quality, protect essential equipment and reduce operating costs.

Coffee & espresso

Working alongside coffee roasters, cafés, equipment suppliers and service engineers, we provide specialist filtration for commercial coffee and espresso machines. The correct water treatment controls limescale, safeguards valuable equipment and creates the ideal water profile for coffee extraction.

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Ice makers & flakers

Our filtration solutions help hospitality businesses, commercial kitchens and equipment providers protect ice makers and flakers from scale and waterborne impurities. Effective water treatment supports reliable ice production while producing cleaner, clearer ice for presentation and service.

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Vending & soft drinks

WaterCare supports vending operators and soft drinks providers with dependable filtration for vending machines, post-mix systems, drinks fountains and dispensers. Our solutions help minimise service calls, extend component life and maintain water quality across individual sites or national estates.

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Warewashing & laundry

Designed for dishwashers, glasswashers and commercial laundry equipment, our softening and demineralisation systems tackle the effects of hard water at source. This improves wash results, reduces detergent use and helps prevent costly scale-related breakdowns.

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What makes the IX Water Filter different from other brands?

The IX Water Filter uses WaterCare's patented Insert Refill Technology, allowing the internal insert to be regenerated and reused instead of being thrown away. This reduces plastic waste, supports a circular economy and helps lower the lifetime cost of filtration compared with single-use systems.