Johns Manville Filtration Launches Assurance(TM) with SSP(TM) Air Filter Media

DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today Johns Manville Filtration, a division of Johns Manville’s Engineered Products Group (EPG), announces the debut of an air filtration media with Self-Supporting Pleat^™ technology called Assurance^™ with SSP^™ for residential HVAC, commercial and industrial applications. Assurance is a nonwoven composite media made of natural and synthetic fibers, and is used to produce a superior mechanical air filter. The media also enables production of self-supporting air filters that reduce costs, increase manufacturing productivity and avoid safety liabilities associated with expanded-metal filter structures.

“Our customers have identified that using expanded metal to support the filtration media is a significant and volatile cost and it poses a huge potential liability for them in a number of ways; we’ve addressed these needs”

Used to produce MERV 6 to 8 filters, Assurance media with SSP delivers low pressure drop and consistent mechanical filtration efficiency. This enables production of more efficient, higher value mechanical air filter products.

A new multi-fiber composite, nonwoven air filter material, Assurance media is strong and made of natural and synthetic fibers
Offered in customized roll lengths and widths, Assurance media delivers mechanical filtration efficiencies and low pressure drop, providing consistent performance throughout the life of the filter
Manufacturers taking advantage of the proprietary Self-Supporting Pleat technology will find that producing a pleated filter with Assurance media alleviates manufacturing and consumer-safety incidents associated with disposal and handling of sharp, expanded-metal filter structures

“Our customers have identified that using expanded metal to support the filtration media is a significant and volatile cost and it poses a huge potential liability for them in a number of ways; we’ve addressed these needs,” said J.P. Blanchard, Johns Manville filtration business manager. “Assurance’s Self-Supporting Pleat technology allows filtration manufacturers to reduce costs and increase productivity by simplifying their manufacturing processes through eliminating the use of expanded metal. This cost savings is a win for our customers in terms of increasing their profitability and continues the tradition of innovation that Johns Manville is known for in the filtration industry.”

Why switch to Assurance?

Working with Assurance with SSP, filter manufacturers can produce a superior self-supported filter that eliminates the need for the expanded metal support of the filter media. By eliminating the expense of metal itself in addition to eliminating a manufacturing step for glue and lamination of the metal wire to the filtration media, Assurance media with SSP gives manufacturers a significant operational edge. This not only lowers costs, but more importantly, it makes manufacturing safer.

What makes Assurance unique?

Assurance is a nonwoven composite of natural and synthetic fibers tested to perform with low pressure drop. Assurance media-enabled filters meet the most stringent testing standards in mechanical air filtration, including the proposed ASHRAE Standard 52.2 test conditioning step.

Self Supporting Pleat, or SSP, reduces material costs and increases manufacturing productivity
Assurance is a mechanical filtration media that currently offers air filter manufacturers the ability to produce filters in the range of MERV 6 through 8
Continued Assurance media development is planned to meet additional market needs

About Johns Manville Filtration

Johns Manville, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is a leading manufacturer and marketer of premium-quality building and specialty products. Johns Manville Filtration is a division of the Johns Manville Engineered Products Group (EPG), one of Johns Manville’s two strategic business units, produces glass fibers, biosoluble glass microfiber, glass fiber nonwovens, polyester spunbonds, meltblowns and glass textile wall coverings at 15 manufacturing locations worldwide: Spartanburg, S.C.; Waterville, Ohio; Richland, Miss.; and Etowah, Tenn., U.S.A.; Berlin, Bobingen, Karlstein, Steinach and Wertheim, Germany; Oskarstrom and Helsingborg, Sweden; Trnava, Slovakia; and Shanghai and Luoyang, China. Additional information can be found at www.jm.com.