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We’re backing the UK’s Clean Air Day this month by offering free advice to companies wishing to provide staff and customers with cleaner indoor air (June 20, 2024).

Outdoor air pollution plays a significant role in indoor air quality (IAQ) and this is why we’re supporting Clean Air Day to help raise awareness.

Impact on health
Jason Day, our LEV (Local Exhaust Ventilation) Division Manager, explains: “Although we all spend around 90% of our time indoors – working, resting and playing – we’re not immune from the contaminates that are swirling around outdoors. Every time you open a window, door or ventilation slot, there’s continuous air exchange between the outdoors and the building you’re in.

“Many studies have proven that particulate matter (PM) impacts on us and our health and wellbeing more than any other form of pollutant. Indoor air exposure to fine PM originates mostly from outdoor air, especially in urban areas where traffic can be heavy.

Exposure in polluted areas
“What is often not acknowledged is that in strongly polluted areas – e.g. heavy industry zones, city centres with heavy traffic – without air filtration, more than 90% of ambient PM levels monitored outdoors, occur indoors too.

“Applying correctly selected, efficient air filters in ventilation systems can significantly reduce the impact of PM exposure and the burden of disease (BoD), which is a measure of life expectancy and the quality of life you can expect.

Improve air quality
“We’re offering firms who use air filters a free, no obligation to buy, energy saving survey to find out how they can save energy, which is good for the planet, as well as their finances, while also showing them how they can improve their air filtration.

“Thus, protecting their teams and customers, or patients, from air pollution and other potentially harmful, airborne particles while indoors.”

About Clean Air Day
Run by Global Action Plan, Clean Air Day is the UK’s largest awareness campaign highlighting the need to tackle air pollution. This annual event offers a chance for people to find out more about air pollution, share information, and make air cleaner and healthier for everyone.

Jason adds: “Our work covers the improvement of internal air quality but we’re naturally very keen to see improvements in overall air quality and a reduction in pollution. The Clean Air Day website states how air pollution causes up to 36,000 deaths in the UK each year. It’s the largest environmental health risk we face today and is recognised as such by the World Health Organisation and the Government.

‘Clean Air Matters’
“Research has shown there are huge links between external and internal air quality and there’s a strong connection with Clean Air Day and what we do and our mantra, which is: Clean Air Matters. We’re a family run business and a large employer in this area, and at our other site in Waterlooville in Hampshire, as well as in Europe. We care about our planet, our families and each other.

Get good indoor air hygiene
“As well as cleaning up the air outside, it’s also vital to protect our health by ensuring the air within buildings is as clean as possible too.
“Retailers, employers with office-based teams, those in hospitality and catering, anyone who has personnel working together inside, or welcomes customers into their building, all need to maintain good indoor air hygiene.”

Book a free air filter survey
If you’d like a free air filter survey, please get in touch to find out more. There’s no obligation to buy from us.

We’ve invested £120,000 in two new Maxi Mover vans built exclusively to our specifications to help increase deliveries and improve eco-efficiency (June 2024).

The new vehicles will improve fuel consumption and increase the product load we can transport per trip, which is more sustainable.

Our planet pledge

Graham Bentley, our Chairman, says: “We’re all very excited to have these two new 5.1M Kurtainsider Maxi Movers join our fleet. We specifically ordered these class-leading, high performance, big volume vans in our own bespoke dimensions and they have been purpose-built for us to meet our load needs.

“They will help us deliver more filters in one go and will ultimately save us from making more trips than we need too. This will boost our commitment to the environment, as fewer trips mean reduced fuel use, and it will help save money too. It’s all part of our pledge to the planet to reduce our footprint and our ongoing dedication to the environment through our ISO 14001 in Environmental Management.

Reducing environmental impact

“ISO 14001 is all about reducing our environmental impact through our operations, this not only contributes to a healthier planet, but also inspires customer and team trust and demonstrates our commitment to sustainability. It provides a framework through which we can measure and continually improve our environmental performance and our new Maxi Movers are all part of this.”

Reduces time

The low floor curtain-sider vans are designed to make easy work of loading and unloading cargo, which reduces time and boosts efficiency.

With their fast action auto tensioning one-piece sliding curtain system, they take no more than 30 seconds to fully open and close. They have also been created to maximise volume and payload, and ultimately ensure our team can make more deliveries.

Maximising eco-effectivity

Graham adds: “They’re manufactured using a combination of the latest advanced, lightweight chassis and thermoplastic composite material technologies, which all help improve fuel efficiency too. The vans’ unique flexible wheelbase options have allowed us to ensure we have the correct chassis to body size configuration to maximise our cargo usability and stability, which again has been vital in maximising eco-effectivity.”