Clean Air and Your Health
Orca Systems is proud to be a
distributor for Austin Air and provide
our customers with advanced air
purification to promote healthy indoor
air quality. The product line offers
six different models – Austin Air
Healthmate Plus, Healthmate Standard,
Healthmate Plus Jr., Healthmate Junior,
Austin Air HEGA and HEGA Jr. This
allows the consumer to choose which
model is right for them based on their
individual needs.
Indoor
Air Quality
- Environmental research is disclosing a
surprising and disturbing factor for our
health - the quality of indoor air in
the home is much more important than
ever suspected. The Congressional
Quarterly has claimed that indoor air is
often two to five times more polluted
than outdoor air and can be up to 1,000
times as dirty.
This
is an issue that concerns us all. The
first step is awareness of the risks.
Fortunately, prevention is easy and
economical. Your home or your office can
have clean air for healthy living right
now.
Austin Air Healthmate, Healthmate Plus
and HEGA Air Purifiers are perfect for
someone who...
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Suffers from Allergy/Asthma
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Has multiple chemical sensitivities
and needs an air filter that doesn't
off gas
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Wants a good value in an air purifier
for particulates, odours and gases for
up to 1500 sq ft
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Needs HEPA particulate (small
particle) filtration as well as
filters for gases, odours and or smoke
problems
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A city dweller with medium particulate
allergies who also may have city or
neighbourhood pollutants that produce
odours, gases and or soot
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Needs to remove volatile organic
compounds and chemically reactive
gases such as formaldehyde, ammonias
and odours
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Wants an air purifier that resists
scratching, scuffing and smudging
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Wants to be able to
move the air
purifier easily from room to room
on casters
Read
or view
video of Austin Air being
featured on
NBC Today show
Austin Air Features
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Removes a wide variety of contaminants:
particles removed include dust,
pollens, dander, odours, chemical
vapours and more.
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Controls Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs):
additional filter treatment of
potassium iodide gives greater
effectiveness in removing volatile
organic compounds such as fresh paint
and woodworking odours. (Healthmate
Plus models are additionally
effective in removing chemically
reactive gases such as formaldehyde,
ammonias and "new carpet")
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Protects from toxic poisons and smoke:
activated carbon is woven into a
lightweight cloth, which is powerful
enough to protect military personnel
from toxic poisons. (HEGA
models).
(Note: Improved ventilation and use of
air purifiers may reduce, but will not
completely eliminate, your exposure to
secondhand smoke and the associated
health risks.)
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Lasts up to 30% longer
than conventional carbon/zeolite
filters and weighs 13 pounds less
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Does not produce harmful air
components:
Austin air purifiers do not produce
ozone or negative ions
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Good air flow:
All units draw in air on all four
sides
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Easily cleaned and maintains finish:
Each unit is encased in steel with a
special baked-on powder coat finish
with a non-gloss, lightly textured
surface that resists scratching,
scuffing and smudging. Clean easily
with a just a wipe of the cloth.
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Ease of mobility:
Austin Healthmate Standard and Plus
air purifier models are mounted on 4
casters (Healthmate Jr. model is not
wheel mounted)
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Low energy use:
uses very little energy even on its
highest setting
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Low filter cost:
Austin air purifiers replacement
filter costs are low, which means less
annual maintenance cost
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Extra lengthy 5 year warranty:
on parts and prorated 5 years on the
filter under normal household use
What is
HEPA and HEGA Filtration?
Most people have heard of HEPA
filtration which is HIGH EFFICIENCY
PARTICULATE ARRESTANCE filtration
(good for small particles such as dust,
danger, pollen, mold, etc.) In cases of
smoke removal, this is highly effective,
since the smoke consists of millions of
tiny particles which normally would fill
the pores of the activated carbon,
greatly reducing its life and
effectiveness. In the Austin Air HEGA,
the positioning of the HEPA and gas
filter is reversed. The HEPA filter is
located first on the outside, and the
HEGA filter is located second on the
inside. The smoke encounters the HEPA
filter first, where the smoke particles
are removed and then the gases and odors
can be addressed by the HEGA filter.
Some allergy sufferers also need
chemicals, odors, and gases removed from
their environments (new homes, city
living, apartment living). This type of
gas filtration is usually achieved by
using some type of carbon or carbon/zeolite
pellets to absorb the gases and odors.
Some manufacturers are now also using a
carbon cloth filter for gas and odor
control. Wouldn't it be great to combine
both technologies to remove
particulates, gases and odors?
Austin Air's product development team
listened and developed a method for
combining the carbon cloth's gas
trapping properties with HEPA particles
filtration. Austin engineers named their
new filtration discovery HEGA - High
Efficiency Gas Absorption. It
consists of an activated carbon
lightweight cloth, which is powerful
enough to protect military personnel
from toxic poisons. Because of this, it
is also more
effective for smoke filtration.
Austin
Air Models – Which is the right for you?
Orca Systems has compiled detailed
information on each of the six models.
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