Cummins Filtration Technology Lauded as Industry's Choice New Product of 2009

Cummins Filtration said that its Direct Air Flow technology has been honored as the Industry's Choice ancillary product as part of Construction Equipment's Top 100 Products of 2009.

The Top 100 award is the trade magazine's oldest and most recognized in the industry, the Company noted in a release.

Kamini Patel, Executive Director of Global Marketing at Cummins Filtration, said, "We are honored to receive the award as Cummins Filtration's goal is to provide unique product solutions that benefit original equipment manufacturers and end customers alike. The Direct Flow air intake system offers our customers greater design flexibility in addition to higher air filtration performance, easier serviceability, and longer service intervals."

Conventional round air filter elements typically have a flow that takes many turns and twists, creating higher restriction and complicated plumbing for the inlet and outlet ducting. The Company said that the Direct Flow product uses a rectangular "V-Block" configuration that optimizes space normally wasted in the inner diameter of a typical cylindrical air filter configuration. Thus, the total dust holding capacity increases, and the physical size of the product can be decreased up to 50 percent for a given dust capacity. This design also provides the ability to mount the air cleaner in a location previously not suitable with cylindrical air cleaners.

The winners of the Construction Equipment Top 100 Award were featured in the December 2009 issue of the magazine, as well as in the magazine's eNewsletter.

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