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Dublin, July 20, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Global Air Filtration Media Market Outlook 2028" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

The global air filtration media market is anticipated to grow in upcoming years by registering a CAGR of around 7% over the forecast period, i.e., 2020-2028. The market is estimated to cross USD 6,900 Million in 2028.

The growth in urbanization along with economic development which has furthered the demand for industrial air filters due to decreased air quality and increase in air pollution is among major indicators driving the market growth. The focus to control pollution is anticipated to drive the demand for air filters.

Moreover, the rise in stringent standards and regulations for health and safety related to limiting harmful emissions from various end-users such as commercial, residential, and industrial is also contributing to the market growth. However, high cost pertaining to air filters and ozone emissions through these filters are some of the limiting factors that might negatively affect the market growth.

In terms of market segmentation, the global air filtration media market is segmented by filter type, media type, reusability, grade, application, providers, end-user and by region. The market is segmented by filter type into activated carbon, non-woven fabrics, electrostatic filter, fiberglass, and others. Among these segments, the activated carbon segment is estimated to account for highest share throughout the forecast period, and in 2021, this segment is estimated to attain around 45% of the market share.

Geographically, the market is segmented into North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Latin America and Middle East & Africa, out of which, the market in Asia Pacific is estimated to hold highest stance throughout the forecast period and garner around USD 2,9oo Million in 2028.

On the other hand, the market in North America is witnessing growth on the back of increasing vehicle production in the last one decade which has further resulted in air pollution. The N.A. market is estimated to cross market value of around USD 1,120 Million in 2021.

Some of the leading market players in the global air filtration media market are Schweitzer-Mauduit International, Inc., Cabot Corporation, Donaldson Company, 3M Company, Calgon Carbon Corporation, Lydall, Inc., and others.

Key Topics Covered:

Global Air Filtration Media Market

1. Market Definition1.1 Market Definition1.2 Market Segmentation

2. Research Methodology

3. Executive Summary- Global Air Filtration Media Market

4. Analysis of Market Dynamics4.1 Drivers4.2 Restraints4.3 Opportunities4.4 Trends

5. Impact of COVID-19 on the Air Filtration Media Market

6. Global Air Filtration Media Market Outlook6.1 Global Air Filtration Media Market Segmentation Analysis 2019-20286.1.1 By Filter Type, 2019-2028F (in USD Million)6.1.2 By Media Type, 2019-2028F (in USD Million)6.1.3 By Reusability, 2019-2028F (in USD Million)6.1.4 By Grade, 2019-2028F (in USD Million)6.1.5 By Application, 2019-2028F (in USD Million)6.1.6 By Providers, 2019-2028F (in USD Million)6.1.7 By End-User, 2019-2028F (in USD Million)6.1.8 By Region, 2019-2028F (in USD Million)6.1.8.1.1 North America, 2019-2028F (in USD Million)6.1.8.1.2 Europe, 2019-2028F (in USD Million)6.1.8.1.3 Asia Pacific, 2019-2028F (in USD Million)6.1.8.1.4 Latin America, 2019-2028F (in USD Million)6.1.8.1.5 Middle East & Africa, 2019-2028F (in USD Million)

7. North America Air Filtration Media Market Outlook

8. Europe Air Filtration Media Market Outlook

9. Asia Pacific Air Filtration Media Market Outlook

10. Latin America Air Filtration Media Market Outlook

11. Middle East & Africa Air Filtration Media Market Outlook

12. Competitive Structure12.1 Schweitzer-Mauduit International, Inc.12.2 Cabot Corporation12.3 Donaldson Company, Inc.12.4 3M Company12.5 Calgon Carbon Corporation12.6 Freudenberg Filtration Technologies SE & Co. KG12.7 Ahlstrom-Munksjo12.8 Lydall, Inc.12.9 Camfil AB12.10 Toyobo Co., Ltd.12.11 Aim Nonwovens and Interiors Private Limited12.12 IREMA12.13 Johns Manville12.14 Glatfelter Corporation12.15 Sandler AG12.16 Toray Industries12.17 Superior Felt and Filtration, LLC12.18 Elta Group Ltd12.19 Hollingsworth & Vose12.20 Permatron Corporation12.21 Porvair Filtration Group12.22 Air filters, Inc.12.23 Clean & Science Co., Ltd12.24 Innovatec

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Vehicles are stranded in floodwater near Zhengzhou Railway Station on July 20, 2021 in Zhengzhou, Henan Province of China.

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GUANGZHOU, China Taiwanelectronics manufacturerFoxconn said Wednesday that its factory in Zhengzhou known as the world's largest iPhone assembly plant has not been impacted by major flooding in the city.

Zhengzhou in China's central Henan province has been hit with torrential rain. Authorities said it rained more in an hour on Tuesday than it normally would in an average month.

The result has been intense flooding in the city of more than 10 million people. Over 100,000 people have been relocated to safety and 12 people have died, according to state media reports.

Zhengzhou, an important industrial hub, is home to a major factory run by Hon Hai Precision Industry, also known a Foxconn. It is the biggest assembly plant for Apple's iPhones in the world. Foxconn said its operations had not been affected by the flooding.

Foxconn told CNBC that it had "activated an emergency response plan for flood control measures in that location."

"We can confirm that there has been no direct impact on our facility in that location to date and we are closely monitoring the situation and will provide any updates as appropriate," a company spokesperson added.

Apple did not respond to a request for comment.

However, its CEO Tim Cook posted on China's Twitter-like service Weibo.

"Our thoughts are with everyone affected by the flooding across Henan province, and the first responders helping people to safety," Cook said, adding that Apple will be donating to support the relief effort.

Several other technology companies including Tencent, Alibaba and TikTok-owner ByteDance also pledged donations. China's tech giants are currently under intense scrutiny from the country's regulators.

Chinese President Xi Jinping called the flooding "extremely severe," according to his comments published by the official Xinhua news agency.

Unverified videos circulating on Chinese social media such as Weibo, showed people trapped on a train in Zhengzhou's subway system submerged in water up to their chests.

Other images show cars floating in flooded streets.

Policemen evacuate traffic in floodwater near Zhengzhou Railway Station on July 20, 2021 in Zhengzhou, Henan Province of China.

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Zhengzhou's subway network has suspended its operations while hundreds of flights have been cancelled. The army has been called in to help with the rescue efforts.

Various state media reported stories of rescue efforts including 150 kindergarten teachers and students being successfully saved and people being taken off buses stuck in flooded roads.

State-backed newspaper Xinhua, citing the chief forecaster for Henan province's meteorological station, said the heavy rainfall is expected to last until Wednesday evening.

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Foxconn says critical iPhone factory hasn't been hit by massive floods in China - CNBC

NSO Groups spyware has been used to facilitate human rights violations around the world on a massive scale, according to a major investigation into the leak of 50,000 phone numbers of potential surveillance targets. These include heads of state, activists and journalists, including Jamal Khashoggis family.

The Pegasus Project lays bare how NSOs spyware is a weapon of choice for repressive governments seeking to silence journalists, attack activists and crush dissent, placing countless lives in peril.

The Pegasus Project is a ground-breaking collaboration by more than 80 journalists from 17 media organizations in 10 countries coordinated by Forbidden Stories, a Paris-based media non-profit, with the technical support of Amnesty International, who conducted cutting- edge forensic tests on mobile phones to identify traces of the spyware.

The Pegasus Project lays bare how NSOs spyware is a weapon of choice for repressive governments seeking to silence journalists, attack activists and crush dissent, placing countless lives in peril, said Agns Callamard, Secretary General of Amnesty International.

These revelations blow apart any claims by NSO that such attacks are rare and down to rogue use of their technology. While the company claims its spyware is only used for legitimate criminal and terror investigations, its clear its technology facilitates systemic abuse. They paint a picture of legitimacy, while profiting from widespread human rights violations.

Clearly, their actions pose larger questions about the wholesale lack of regulation that has created a wild west of rampant abusive targeting of activists and journalists. Until this company and the industry as a whole can show it is capable of respecting human rights, there must be an immediate moratorium on the export, sale, transfer and use of surveillance technology.

In a written response to Forbidden Stories and its media partners, NSO Group said it firmly denies false claims in the report. It wrote that the consortiums reporting was based on wrong assumptions and uncorroborated theories and reiterated that the company was on a life-saving mission. A fuller summary of NSO Groups response is available here.

At the centre of this investigation is NSO Groups Pegasus spyware which, when surreptitiously installed on victims phones, allows an attacker complete access to the devices messages, emails, media, microphone, camera, calls and contacts.

Over the next week, media partners of The Pegasus Project - including The Guardian, Le Monde, Sddeutsche Zeitung and The Washington Post - will run a series of stories exposing details of how world leaders, politicians, human rights activists, and journalists have been selected as potential targets of this spyware.

From the leaked data and their investigations, Forbidden Stories and its media partners identified potential NSO clients in 11 countries: Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Hungary, India, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Morocco, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Togo, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

NSO Group has not taken adequate action to stop the use of its tools for unlawful targeted surveillance of activists and journalists, despite the fact that it either knew, or arguably ought to have known, that this was taking place.

The Pegasus Project revelations must act as a catalyst for change. The surveillance industry must no longer be afforded a laissez-faire approach from governments with a vested interest in using this technology to commit human rights violations.

As a first step, NSO Group must immediately shut down clients systems where there is credible evidence of misuse. The Pegasus Project provides this in abundance, said Agns Callamard.

During the investigation, evidence has also emerged that family members of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi were targeted with Pegasus software before and after his murder in Istanbul on 2 October 2018 by Saudi operatives, despite repeated denials from NSO Group.

Amnesty Internationals Security Lab established that Pegasus spyware was successfully installed on the phone of Khashoggis fiance Hatice Cengiz just four days after his murder.

His wife, Hanan Elatr was also repeatedly targeted with the spyware between September 2017 and April 2018 as well as his son, Abdullah, who was also selected as a target along with other family members in Saudi Arabia and the UAE.

In a statement, the NSO Group responded to the Pegasus Project allegations saying that its technology was not associated in any way with the heinous murder of Jamal Khashoggi. The company said that it previously investigated this claim, immediately after the heinous murder, which again, is being made without validation.

Journalists under attack

The investigation has so far identified at least 180 journalists in 20 countries who were selected for potential targeting with NSO spyware between 2016 to June 2021, including in Azerbaijan, Hungary, India and Morocco, countries where crackdowns against independent media have intensified.

The revelations show the real-world harm caused by unlawful surveillance:

The number of journalists identified as targets vividly illustrates how Pegasus is used as a tool to intimidate critical media. It is about controlling public narrative, resisting scrutiny, and suppressing any dissenting voice," said Agns Callamard.

These revelations must act as a catalyst for change. The surveillance industry must no longer be afforded a laissez-faire approach from governments with a vested interest in using this technology to commit human rights violations.

Exposing Pegasus infrastructure

Amnesty International is today releasing the full technical details of its Security Labs in-depth forensic investigations as part of the Pegasus Project.

The Labs methodology report documents the evolution of Pegasus spyware attacks since 2018, with details on the spywares infrastructure, including more than 700 Pegasus-related domains.

NSO claims its spyware is undetectable and only used for legitimate criminal investigations. We have now provided irrefutable evidence of this ludicrous falsehood, said Etienne Maynier, a technologist at Amnesty Internationals Security Lab.

There is nothing to suggest that NSOs customers did not also use Pegasus in terrorism and crime investigations, and the Forbidden Stories consortium also found numbers in the data belonging to suspected criminals.

The widespread violations Pegasus facilitates must stop. Our hope is the damning evidence published over the next week will lead governments to overhaul a surveillance industry that is out of control, said Etienne Maynier.

In response to a request for comment by media organizations involved in the Pegasus Project, NSO Group said it firmly denies the claims and stated that many of them are uncorroborated theories which raise serious doubts about the reliability of your sources, as well as the basis of your story. NSO Group did not confirm or deny which governments are NSO Groups customers, although it said that the Pegasus Project had made incorrect assumptions in this regard. Notwithstanding its general denial of the claims, NSO Group said it will continue to investigate all credible claims of misuse and take appropriate action based on the results of these investigations.

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Massive data leak reveals Israeli NSO spyware used to target activists, journalists, and political leaders - Amnesty International

Fox News host Laura Ingraham argued on Monday's "The Ingraham Angle" that "the Biden administration is just losing control of its COVID narrative."

"This weekend, it became obvious that the Biden administration is just losing control of its COVID narrative. Remember, it was just about two weeks ago now that President Biden was close to declaring independence from the virus. But now the White House is grappling with a new reality that threatens any chance of a real recovery," Ingraham said. "Now, of course, the focus on the Delta variant and the misplaced emphasis on tracking case numbers instead of preventing serious illness is coming back to bite them."

Ingraham said that as Democrats attempt to grapple with the threat of the COVID Delta variant, they are also realizing that they're facing an uphill battle in next year's midterm election and as a result, have shown they are willing to sacrifice their "critics'" First Amendment rights amid their own push of "misinformation."

"The fact is the Democrats know that they're facing strong headwinds going into the midterms next year," she said. "And last week we learned that they don't believe the First Amendment even applies to their critics at this point. So through their social media proxies, they seek to de-platform, cancel, defame or eliminate inconvenient opinions regarding their covid response, calling them potentially deadly misinformation."

She went on to question the White House's silence on the data out of the U.K. that shows 40% of hospitalized COVID patients have been fully vaccinated as well as the curiousness of the five members of the Texas legislature, all of whom were fully vaccinated, that tested positive for the virus after they "fled to D.C." during their "voting rights stunt."

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"Does anyone else think it's weird that five fully vaccinated members of the Texas legislature who fled to D.C. in their voting rights stunt tested positive for the coronavirus?. We have to know more about that," Ingraham exclaimed.

"And why hasn't Fauci and Friends addressed this interesting data point in the U.K.? Britain's chief scientific adviser, Patrick Vallance, said on Monday that 60% of people being admitted to the hospital have had two doses of the vaccine. He later came out and walked that back, saying it was 40% in the hospital who had two COVID shots. But obviously, that's still a significant number. So why isn't the Biden administration address this?"

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Social media companies have recently been called out by The White House for not cracking down on COVID and vaccine misinformation.

YouTube says it will take steps to help its users identify health videos from "authoritative sources" to find credible information. It comes as the Biden administration has been calling out social media companies over allowing COVID-19 and vaccinemisinformation.

"Were adding new health source information panels on videos to help viewers identify videos from authoritative sources, and health content shelves that more effectively highlight videos from these sources when you search for specific health topics," read a blog post from Dr. Garth Graham, YouTube's Director and Global Head of Healthcare and Public Health Partnerships.

"These context cues are aimed at helping people more easily navigate and evaluate credible health information. People will still be able to find relevant videos from a range of sources in their search results," Graham continued.

YouTube assembled what it said was an "expert panel" to help define authoritative health content sources," Graham wrote. He added that only "accredited health organizations and government entities" are part of the health context features, but other sources could be added later.

Even with the changes, many YouTube users would still need to choose to click on the videos.

The White House says social media companies haven't done enough to stop misinformation that has helped slow the pace of new vaccinations in the U.S. to a trickle. About 49% of Americans are fully vaccinated, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

President Joe Biden said last Friday that those companies are "killing people by failing to police misinformation on their platforms. Biden on Monday said the point of his rhetoric was to ramp up pressure on the companies to take action.

The administration has increasingly seized on false or misleading information about the safety and efficacy of the vaccines as a driver of that hesitance. It has referenced a study by the Center for Countering Digital Hate, a nonprofit that studies extremism, that linked a dozen accounts to spreading the majority of vaccine disinformation on Facebook.

Facebook isnt killing people. These 12 people are out there giving misinformation, anyone listening to it is getting hurt by it, it's killing people," Biden said. "Its bad information."

Last week, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy declared misinformation about the vaccines a deadly threat to public health.

Misinformation poses an imminent and insidious threat to our nations health, Murthy said during remarks Thursday at the White House. We must confront misinformation as a nation. Lives are depending on it.

Murthy said technology companies and social media platforms must make meaningful changes to their products and software to reduce the spread of false information while increasing access to authoritative, fact-based sources.

Facebook on Friday responded to Bidens attack, with spokesperson Kevin McAlister saying, The facts show that Facebook is helping save lives. Period."

The company also released a blog post saying its internal research showed it was not responsible for Biden's missed vaccination goal. The data shows that 85% of Facebook users in the US have been or want to be vaccinated against COVID-19. President Bidens goal was for 70% of Americans to be vaccinated by July 4. Facebook is not the reason this goal was missed.

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YouTube adding tools to identify 'authoritative' health sources - KGW.com