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What Is a HEPA Filter?

If you’re looking for air filtration or treatment solutions, it won’t take long to come across the acronym HEPA. In both home and commercial applications, this term shows up just about everywhere—in marketing materials, on product packaging, and more. But what does HEPA mean? Are HEPA filters different in some way from non-HEPA filters? And are all HEPA filters created equal? Most important of all: how does HEPA filtration connect to providing safe, clean air at your school or business?\ Below we’ll answer...

23 MayRead more...
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Combat Long-Term Health Issues from Poor Air Quality

Imagine walking into a business establishment, be it a school, a government office, or a courtroom, and immediately feeling a sense of freshness and purity in the air. You take a deep breath and feel confident, knowing you are breathing in safe air because it’s cleaned by AirBox, a professional indoor air quality service. Now, imagine the opposite - walking into a place where the air feels stale, dusty, and polluted. You may start to experience discomfort, irritation, or even respiratory...

2 MayRead more...

Cleaner Air: An Unexpected Boost to Athletic Performance and Recovery

In athletics, nothing matters more than performance. Athletes, coaches, and athletic directors go to sometimes extreme lengths in pursuit of even the smallest performance gains, and organizations spare practically no expense on medical and therapy solutions to speed recovery. But there’s one element most athletic departments overlook in these quests: indoor air quality. The indoor air your athletes breathe every time they work out, practice, or perform in your athletic facilities could be holding them back. Today we want to show you the...

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Air Purifiers for Locker Rooms

Something stinks, and it’s time we talked about it. Across the nation, college campuses large and small, from the SEC or the Big 10 to the small liberal arts colleges, have one thing in common. Their sports facilities—their locker rooms in particular—stink. We’re not talking about the quality of their facilities or their athletic achievements. No, we mean this literally: just about no matter where you look (or sniff), locker rooms smell bad. You may not always notice the stench, because college athletics...

22 SepRead more...
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Smart Fleet Management for AirBox Air Purifiers

Providing safe, breathable air in your school, business, or office space is a vital way to improve indoor air quality and provide peace of mind to all who pass through your doors. Your best approach for doing so? A fleet of AirBox air purifiers that follow a Safe Air Plan (yes, we may be a bit biased—but we can’t help that it’s true!). Today we’re highlighting a lesser-known feature that provides the highest value to any AirBox installation: Smart Fleet...

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As children return to school, HEPA-certified air purifiers for schools will enhance their health and learning.

Poor Air Quality Hurts Student Performance

"Learning doesn't happen by osmosis." We all remember teachers who tried persuading us to study by saying something to this effect. While historical dates and science terms probably won't get into our brains by unconscious absorption, there are some things that will: pathogens, allergens, and other impurities that linger in the air we breathe. In school settings, these contaminants have real effects on student health, performance, and learning. Read on to learn about these dangers, and how AirBox offers high-quality air...

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Top 6 Industrial Air Purifiers

Keeping your air clean, safe, and free from harmful airborne particulates is a top priority for business owners maintaining industrial or other large spaces. From the front office to the shop floor or warehouse (not to mention other gathering spaces like cafeterias, locker rooms, or auditoriums), indoor air quality matters. Today’s customers and employees think about indoor air quality far more than they did just a few years ago thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. Where a few years back people may...

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ESSER Funds: Improving School IAQ

Your school or district could have federal assistance funds sitting around unused, waiting for you to make use of them. They could be the long-awaited solution to your indoor air quality (IAQ) problem. ESSER funds could be the solution to that problem. Schools and school districts face a continued need to address IAQ in their facilities. Many buildings are aging and may be contending with inefficient air handling systems or contaminants like mold and mildew. On the other end of the...

5 AugRead more...
The best air purifier for allergies will help you deal better with allergies in the workplace.

Allergies Affecting Your Team? The Best Air Purifiers for Allergies

Most of us tend to associate allergies with our furry friends at home or with common springtime culprits like ragweed or pollen. Allergies in the workplace aren’t the first thing to come to mind (unless your office is dog-friendly—we don’t judge!).But workplace allergies are real, and they could be affecting your team more than you realize.According to a current medical research and opinion study affiliated with the Physicians’ Comparability Allowance, poor air quality can cause office work performance to decrease...

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Safe Indoor Air: Why You Need a HEPA Filter Air Purifier

We often take the indoors for granted as safe spaces. When it's dark, we instinctively head indoors to feel safe at home. We run into a store to escape the rain. We watch to make sure our kids get inside the school building before driving away. But if the last few years have taught us anything, it’s that when it comes to the quality of the air we breathe, this logic gets flipped on its head: indoor air is often less...

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