Although aromatic, even the best Havana will produce a great deal of smoke. For GEA no problem at all. With room-air purification on the basis of the GEA ATpicco, or the GEA Clarifair virtual smokers’ booth, we banish the problem of blue smoker’s haze into thin air. We have developed two solutions to help smokers feel comfortable, and to protect non-smokers from blue haze. Where smoking is basically allowed, but clouds of smoke are unwelcome, our GEA Clarifair offers the perfect smokers’ island. The Clarifair unit, 2.5 metres high and often nicknamed “the smoker’s mushroom,” intakes virtually 100 % of the air in its zone of capture. It then separates dust and smoke particles in a three-stage filter system, and even removes unpleasant odours. The GEA Clarifair comes as a table model for standing smokers, or as a ceilingmounted unit. These units wonderfully enable smokers to combine tobacco pleasure after dining with a good cognac.

A similar filter solution is used by our room-air purification that is based on the ATpicco system. It does not stand or hang open in the room as does the Clarifair: instead, it is installed above a suspended ceiling. In separate smokers’ rooms, it offers the possibility of continually removing smoke particles from air. This solution not only pleases smokers who don’t have to sit in smoke-filled rooms, but also satisfies non-smokers – since hardly any smoke escapes from the room. The key element of both units is an industrially proven electrostatic filter. It separates particles down to the size of smoke with a high degree of effectiveness. A downstream activated-carbon unit with several kilograms of activated carbon retains odours. Air filled with smoke enters the filters and comes out as clean air.