AMU / Intake Filters for Paint Booths

Sku: P-PBINTAKEFILTER

Intake Ventilation Filters for Paint Booths are essential components for maintaining clean air in paint and spray booths, ensuring the highest quality finishes in automotive, industrial, and commercial painting applications. Why Clean Air Matters: 

• Particles as small as 10 microns can ruin a paint job, creating visible defects on surfaces. It is the job of intake filters to eliminate these foreign particles, helping to ensure a contaminant-free environment for even the most demanding paint applications.

Configurations of Intake Filters:

• Pad Filters: Cut-to-size without internal support for economical and effective performance.
• Roll Filters: Same as pad filters, but with additional cost savings versus buying cut-to-size.
• Panel Filters: Self-supporting filters with internal grids. Designed for crossdraft paint booths and Air Make-up units, these can be linked together to increase efficiency.

Crossdraft vs. Downdraft Booths & Air Make-Up units:

• Crossdraft Paint Booths: Used for industrial painting needs, these booths typically use polyester intake filters with MERV 6–8 ratings to remove particulates effectively. These filters are easy to install without clips or mounting hardware, creating a secure fit for optimal air flow.
• Downdraft Paint Booths: Common in automotive and other fine finish applications, these commonly utilize intake diffusion pads with a minimum MERV 10 rating, removing over 99+% of particles 7-10 microns or larger, while ensuring even air distribution for consistent coating applications.
• Make-Up Air units.  Many booths are designed with these, helping to ensure balance of air inside and outside the booth. The filters used in these provide the first line of defense against contaminants and also help extend the life of the more expensive filters downstream.

Efficiency Ratings (MERV):

• MERV 6–8: Common for crossdraft booths; sufficient for most applications.
• MERV 10+: Required for downdraft booths, delivering cleanroom-grade filtration to ensure superior paint finishes.

Note:  Many other versions exist than what is shown.  Contact us if your desired filter is not shown, or if you need help identifying what filter to use.