Healthy Indoor Environment for Banks and Banknote Processing

Royal Dutch Kusters Engineering (Kusters) – which specialises in banknote destruction systems - has expanded its portfolio with its new range of Air Purification systems, in response to the importance of a healthy indoor environment in offices and cash processing areas.

As Kusters explains, various sizes of particles float through the air both outdoors and indoors, and the smaller they are, the more difficult it is to filter them out. The smallest particles have a diameter of less than 1 micron and include dust, combustion particles, bacteria and viruses. Because they are so small, they penetrate directly through the lungs into the circulatory and nervous systems, reaching internal organs where they can cause considerable damage.

Regarding dust particles, machinery in processing areas often incorporates filters to extract particles larger than 1 micron. But virus and bacteria particles are smaller than that, and so remain in the ‘cleaned’ air. For these areas, Kusters recommends its HEPA filter, which can easily be retrofitted onto most existing banknote processing and destruction systems.