Particulate filters

A fast-growing market

Ceraclean® has ranked Saint-Gobain among this fast-growing market’s key players – and is contributing to our planet’s future.

Customers

This market should hit the €2 billion mark in 2010, and cuts across the diesel-engine market, encompassing the transport industry (road, rail and water), farming machinery, construction machinery, power generators, etc. Carmakers, however, are Saint-Gobain’s main customers.

Legislation

Legislation is slowly but surely requiring vehicle manufacturers to fit particulate filters onto their vehicles.

• In the US, particulate filters have been mandatory on all new cars and pick-ups since 2007.
• In the EU, the “Euro 5” standard applied since 2009 has tightened regulations on particulate emissions to the point that all light diesel vehicles should be equipped. Compliance to the new rules for trucks is planned for 2013.