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Looking to buy an air cleaner? If so, AFP - Air Filters and Purifiers would like to offer the consumer a buying guide on air purifiers that addresses the many aspects of this market. We will help you select from the many air purifiers and find the one system that best meets your needs. Here are seven areas you should consider to ensure air quality you need at a price you can afford.

Choice Considerations

1. What Do You Need?
Are you an allergy sufferer, do you have asthma, live near roads or factories, have pets or are you just concerned about your[...]

Asthma symptoms are more severe as air pollution increases. For children, it is worse. The following describes some recent study on this subject. Based on this study, it is recommended that indoor air should be re-mediated with Austin Air Purifiers and the family of HealthMate Air Purifiers.
In February of 2009, Johns Hopkins University researchers reported results of indoor pollution on asthma sufferers. They concluded that increasing levels of indoor particulate matter pollution would increase the severity of asthma symptoms. Asthmatic children were monitored for 6 months to determine the impact of room particulate matter, comprised of an airborne mixture of solid[...]

What is a HEPA filter? Why do they always come up when researching Austin Air Purifiers and Austin Air filters? Well, the history of the HEPA (High Efficiency Particulate Arresting) is very interesting. A little-known historical fact is that the original HEPA filter was first designed back in the 1940s.  The HEPA filter was placed in the Manhattan Project facilities as a way of preventing the spread of airborne radioactive contaminants.
By the 1950s, HEPA filters began appearing in commercialized products. In fact, the HEPA filter became synonymous with best in class filter performance and high efficiency. It became the high standard[...]