Automotive Filters Market Analysis

Automotive Filters Market Overview:

Automotive Filters Market Size was valued at USD 25.8 Billion in 2023. The automotive filters market industry is projected to grow from USD 26.57 Billion in 2024 to USD 32.7 Billion by 2032, exhibiting a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 2.62% during the forecast period (2024 - 2032). Increased population and personal vehicle demand, as well as increased sales and need for automotive filters are the key market drivers enhancing the market growth.

Source: Secondary Research, Primary Research, MRFR Database and Analyst Review

Automotive Filters Market Trends

Creating laws to reduce glasshouse gas emissions in order to accelerate market growth

The creation of rules to limit glasshouse gas emissions is driving the market CAGR for Automotive Filters. Regulations governing glasshouse gas emissions have been implemented during the last few decades in response to increased environmental concerns and efforts to reduce glasshouse emissions. To monitor particle emissions, governments around the world have set automobile emission regulations. Current emission laws in use include the United States' Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standard, the European Union's Euro emission standards, and Japan's long-term emission limits. Air filters are also used to minimise pollution produced by autos. Air filters use a certain type of filtering media, such as cloth or sintered metal, to trap and remove dry particles and contaminants such as germs, dust, and pollen from the air passing through them.

Increased environmental concerns and severe emission standards are driving the market CAGR for automobile filter industry forwards. Automotive filters aid to improve fuel efficiency while also lowering pollutants and glasshouse gas emissions. According to a survey published by the US-based online journal Our World in Data, passenger travel (cars, motorcycles, and buses) would account for 60% of road transport emissions in 2020, with road freight (lorries and trucks) accounting for the remaining 40%. In response to rising glasshouse gas emissions, the government has enacted stringent emission regulations.

For instance, The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), a US-based government agency, published new national glasshouse gas (GHG) emissions regulations for passenger vehicles and light trucks in December 2021, for model years 2022-2032. The final standards would result in significant reductions in GHG emissions as well as other criteria pollutants. As a result, rising environmental concerns and stringent emission standards will drive the vehicle filter market forwards.

Automotive Filters Market Segment Insights:

Automotive Filters Type Insights

The Automotive Filters Market segmentation, based on type includes fuel filter, air filter, oil filter, emission filter. The oil filter category has largest market share. The oil filter maintains continuous oil flow and eliminates particles (dirt, oxidised oil, metallic particles) that may occur in the motor oil due to engine wear. It cleans the motor oil so that it can do its job more effectively. An oil filter has adequate contaminant-holding capacity to keep working until the next oil change.

Automotive Filters Sales Insights

The Automotive Filters Market segmentation, based on sales, includes OEM, IAM, OES, aftermarket. In 2022, the OEM category is expected to dominate the automotive air filters market. The sales of Air Filter Automotive by original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) are closely tied to global production of passenger automobiles, light commercial vehicles, and heavy commercial vehicles. The increase in global demand for automobiles is the key driver driving the growth of the OEM end-use category throughout the forecast period. Global players are investing in the acquisition of high-quality air filters to improve vehicle fuel efficiency and passenger comfort. Because of the increased demand for high-end car items, OEMs often use a distinct sales channel. The aforementioned factors will almost certainly cause the end-use segment to grow.

Figure1: Automotive Filters Market, by Sales, 2024 & 2032 (USD Billion)

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Automotive Filters Application Insights

The Automotive Filters Market segmentation, based on application, includes Passenger Vehicle (P), LCV, HOV, 2-wheeler. The passenger vehicle segment led the market and accounted for more than 53.4% of global revenue in 2022, owing to rising demand for luxury car segments, which include a premium quality filter for HVAC systems and intake manifolds for high-level comfort and better vehicle performance. Furthermore, these premium industry vehicles necessitate frequent filter replacements in order to preserve vehicle performance.

Automotive Filters Regional Insights

By region, the study provides the market insights into North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Rest of the World. Asia Pacific dominated the market and accounted for a 54.0% share of global revenue in 2022 owing to high automotive production witnessed by the region. In addition, the robust manufacturing base coupled with the rising implication of favorable government policies to ramp up production in economies such as China and India is expected to drive the growth of the automotive sector in the region. This in turn is projected to positively influence the demand for automotive filters in the region.

Further, the major countries studied in the market report are The US, Canada, German, France, the UK, Italy, Spain, China, Japan, India, Australia, South Korea, and Brazil.

Figure2: Automotive Filters Market Share By Region 2022 (USD Billion)

Source: Secondary Research, Primary Research, MRFR Database and Analyst Review

Europe’s automotive filters market accounts for the second-largest market share due to the growing consumer demand for cost-efficient high-quality products is further anticipated to boost the need for research and development of filters.  Further, the German automotive filters market held the largest market share, and the UK automotive filters market was the fastest growing market in the European region

The North America Automotive Filters Market is expected to grow at the fastest CAGR from 2023 to 2032. This is due to an increasing number of companies in the region. Moreover, China’s automotive filters market held the largest market share, and the Indian automotive filters market was the fastest-growing market in the North America region.

Automotive Filters Key Market Players & Competitive Insights

Leading market players are investing heavily RR&D to expand their product lines, which will help the automotive filters market, grow even more. Market participants are also undertaking a variety of strategic activities to expand their global footprint, with important market developments including new product launches, contractual agreements, mergers and acquisitions, higher investments, and collaboration with other organizations. To expand and survive in a more competitive and rising market climate, automotive filtersindustry must offer cost-effective items.

Manufacturing locally to minimize operational costs is one of the key business tactics used by manufacturers in the global automotive filters industry to benefit clients and increase the market sector. In recent years, the automotive filters industry has offered some of the most significant advantages to medicine. Major players in the automotive filters market, including Toyota Boshoku Corporation (Japan), Mahle GmbH (Germany), Parker Hannifin Corp (US), AC Delco (US), Hollingsworth & Vose Company (US)  and others, are attempting to increase market demand by investing in R&D operations.

Parker Hannifin Corporation, formerly Parker Appliance Company, is an American corporation that specialises in motion and control technologies. Its corporate offices are in Mayfield Heights, Ohio (with a Cleveland mailing address), in Greater Cleveland. The company was founded in 1917 and has been publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) since December 9, 1964. The company is one of the world's largest in motion control technologies, which include aerospace, climate control, electromechanical, filtration, fluid and gas handling, hydraulics, pneumatics, process control, and sealing and shielding. Parker employs around 55,000 people worldwide. In May 2022, Parker Appliance Company was established. Parker Hannifin has sold its aviation wheel and brake operations to Kaman Corporation, based in Bloomfield, for US$440 million.

Donaldson Company, Inc. is a vertically integrated filtration company that manufactures and sells air filters for a wide range of industries, including commercial/industrial (engines, exhausts, transmissions, vents in private vehicles, hydraulics), aerospace (helicopters, planes), chemical, alternative energy (windmills), and pharmaceuticals. In addition, the company's research branch in Minneapolis, Minnesota, was involved in defense-related studies for various military uses (see below). Donaldson Engineering began as a modest firm based on Frank Donaldson's development of an air intake filter (engine air cleaner). While servicing a tractor in Utah, Frank Donaldson devised the air intake filter. Donaldson, his parents, and his siblings established the Donaldson Company Inc. in 1915. In June 2020, Donaldson Company, Inc. said that it and Nelson Global Products, Inc. had reached an agreement to terminate Nelson's previously announced purchase bid for Donaldson's Exhaust and Emissions (E&E) business. The transaction would have included Donaldson's dedicated E&E sales and engineering operations, production facilities, and lab capabilities.

Key Companies in the automotive filters market include

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  Robert Bosch GmbH (Germany)

  
  


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  Mann+ Hummel (Germany)

  
  


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  Donaldson Company, Inc. (US)

  
  


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  Denso Corporation (Japan)

  
  


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  Cummins Inc. (US)

  
  


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  ALCO Filters Ltd. (Cyprus)

  
  


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  Toyota Boshoku Corporation (Japan)

  
  


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  Mahle GmbH (Germany)

  
  


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  Parker Hannifin Corp (US)

  
  


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  ACDelco (US)

  
  


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  Hollingsworth & Vose Company (US)

  
  

Automotive Filters Industry Developments

In December 2020, FibRoc Flooring, Ahlstrom-comprehensive Munksjö's line of high-performance options for flooring applications, was introduced. For more than 40 years, Ahlstrom-Munksjö has been a major supplier of high-performance fiber-based solutions to the flooring sector. Ahlstrom-Munksjö is pleased to announce the launch of the FibRoc Flooring product portfolio, which follows the launch of FibRoc, which communicated the identity and positioning of the new product platform.

In August 2019,  Mann+Hummel, based in Ludwigsburg, Germany, has completed the acquisition of Hardy Filtration. This acquisition is designed to broaden the company's global footprint and production capabilities, which Mann+Hummel bought in 2018.

In June 2019,  MALE GmbH introduced the CleanLine gasoline filter. This ensures reduced fuel pump and injection nozzle maintenance expenses. Throughout their lifetime, they have outstanding dust separation efficiency.

Automotive Filters Market Segmentation:

Automotive Filters Market By Type Outlook

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  Fuel Filter

  
  


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  Air Filter

  
  


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  Oil Filter

  
  


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  Emission Filter

  
  

Automotive Filters Market By Sales Outlook

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  OEM

  
  


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  IAM

  
  


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  OES

  
  


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  Aftermarket

  
  

Automotive Filters Market By Application Outlook

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  Passenger Vehicle (P)

  
  


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  LCV

  
  


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  HOV

  
  


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  2-wheeler

  
  

Automotive Filters Regional Outlook

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  Middle East
  
  


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  Africa
  
  


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  Latin America