Market Overview

The automotive air filter market is anticipated to register a CAGR of about 8.57% during the forecast period (2019 – 2024).

• The intake and cabin air filters are vital components of a vehicle. The intake air filter helps in the efficient working of the automobile’s engine. The poor performance of the air filter may result in inefficient functioning and lead to more emissions. The cabin air filter plays an equally important role in the automobile. It prevents harmful pollutants from entering the passenger cabin, and its performance has a direct relation to the passenger satisfaction and experience.
• Air composition and quality widely vary across the world, and depend on environmental conditions soil, dust, road conditions, traffic, and construction. The properties of dust depend on the mineralogical composition, as well as the percentage of quartz and corundum in dust. These elements are extremely hard, and are capable of damaging engine parts. Quartz is prevalent across the world, and is considerable harder than most metals that are used in the manufacturing of automotive engines, therefore the air filter plays a crucial role in filtering quartz particles from the intake air. The air filter needs to effectively protect the engine against direct intake of abrasive particles and road dust.
• The growing automotive market, especially cars sales, is majorly driving the air filter market. Consumers are becoming more aware about the importance of air filter for purified air and staying isolated in their passenger cabin from the atmosphere dirt. Thus, this leads to the growth of the market studied.

Scope of the Report

The automotive air filter market has been segmented by type, vehicle type, and geography.

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Key Market Trends

Decline in Vehicle Sales Hampering the Air Filter Market Growth

In 2018, the global vehicle sales fell, owing mainly to a sharp contraction in automobile purchases in China in the second half of the year amid a government-led crackdown on non-bank lending. Sales in Western Europe also dropped sharply in the final months of 2018, owing to a shortage of qualifying vehicles under new emission test procedures introduced in the European Union in September, but still managed a slight increase for the year.

In 2018, Chinese vehicle sales fell for the first time in two decades, owing to a pronounced slowdown in economic activity, particularly in the latter half of the year. Total sales for the year was three percentage points below 2017’s record high, and recorded a sharp year-on-year decline of 14% in December. Several factors contributed to a weak sales performance in 2018. These include an increase in the tax rate applied on small vehicles, a government crackdown on excessive lending, and trade frictions with the United States.

New vehicle emission test rules, which entered into force in September 2018 in the EU led to a big swing in the sales in the second half of 2018, though automobile purchases in Western Europe, excluding the United Kingdom, managed to eke out a 0.3% increase in 2018. Based on the all aforementioned factors, the vehicle sales have been declining, which in turn, hampering the air filter market growth.

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