PROMOTIONAL ARTICLE ON BEHALF OF HELLA HENGST
Keeping customers in the best of health
HELLA Hengst’s filter programme provides independent workshops with a superb original equipment (OE) option that sets them apart from their competitors. Within the range, which naturally encompasses all filter types, is a cabin filter range that is in a class of its own and features market leading fitting instructions, including where the filter is located in the vehicle.
Hengst, a global leader in filtration and fluid management, is an OE supplier to many of the world’s vehicle manufacturers and its cabin filters are particularly favoured due to their combination of design innovation and special features. As a result, its aftermarket range with HELLA provides technicians with a comprehensive replacement cabin filter solution, available in non-carbon, active carbon, and anti-bacterial (Blue.care®) configurations.
Informing customers
As incomprehensible as it sounds, 540,000 litres of air can enter the cockpit of a vehicle for every hour it is driven and, according to multiple studies, this air typically contains up to five times more contamination from exhaust gases, pollutants and allergens, than the air at the roadside.
Bearing in mind the harmful effects this contamination has on the occupants of the vehicle, which include the driver’s ability to concentrate, there is a direct safety correlation to the quality of the air within the vehicle. Therefore, members have both a positive healthcare message to give their customers in terms of the importance of regular cabin filter replacement, as well as a legitimate profit making opportunity.
Catering for demand
In addition to protecting the vehicle’s air conditioning system and filtering out fine dust and pollen, which is common to all new cabin filters, HELLA Hengst active carbon cabin filters not only collect even smaller dust particles, but also remove bad-smelling odours and hazardous gases such as ozone, smog and exhaust.
However, to provide drivers with the ultimate protection from contaminants, HELLA Hengst has developed the Blue.care anti-bacterial range. Its five element construction adds a fifth level of protection over the active carbon series, in the form of defence against the threat of bacterial build-up in the system and therefore, within the vehicle itself.
Blue.care at a glance
The elements within the Blue.care range comprise an electrostatic media with a pre-filter function to keep out course particles, followed by a filter fleece, which increases its dust retention capacity.
This is followed by the active carbon layer to separate out vapours, odours and harmful gases such as ozone, nitric oxide and sulphur dioxide, plus meltdown medium, which filters out fine dust and micro particles down to incredibly small diameters.
Finally, the pièce de résistance, is the bio-functional layer, which contains nonosilver and provides the filter’s unique anti-microbial, anti-bacterial effect, which make the Blue.care range the ultimate solution for in-car air quality and subsequently increases safety for the driver, their passengers and the wider community.
For more information about the OE quality products available from HELLA Hengst, please call customer services on: 01295 662400 or email hella.sales@hella.com
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