Cabin air filter manufacturers interested in developing this market world-wide and ensuring the continued development of non-woven in automotive should focus on education of the end user as well as concentrating on the automotive manufacturers. There is a strong consumer preference for combination filters capable of reducing the levels of odours as well as particles. The auto producers main objective is of course to sell cars. Good communication strategies to the end users and the marketing departments of automotive manufacturers will be important to assure continual investment in this technology and guarantee that the automotive industry can improve the value of the product offering to the market. Customer driven demand for cabin air filtration is growing rapidly from 40 % of all new vehicles in Europe having filters installed in 1996 to 90 % in 2000. In the USA this will grow from 6 % in 1996 to an estimate of 50 % in 2000 and for Japan this is estimated to grow also to 50 % by the year 2000. These trends will ensure that in future, the car buying customer can drive in a cleaner, more comfortable environment.
Cabin air filtration: The pollution filter
Kombinationsfilter für die Belüftung von Fahrzeugkabinen
1996
10 Seiten, 2 Bilder, 2 Tabellen, 6 Quellen
Conference paper
English
Filter pleating design for cabin air filtration
Automotive engineering | 1996
|Filter Pleating Design for Cabin Air Filtration
SAE Technical Papers | 1996
|Tema Archive | 1996
|Decade of cabin air filtration
Tema Archive | 2000
|