In 2014, Philip’s mother found it difficult to breathe in and around her apartment due to the poor air quality in her very old building with its very old air ducts. Philip bought an air purifier for he room as well as traditional N95 masks for his mother to use when going in and out of the apartment, but she could only wear them for a short period of time before the inside of the mask became almos
t as stuffy as the inside of the apartment. An engineer by trade, Philip set-off to find a solution, consulting with friends who worked in various industries across around the world. Philip and his friends quickly realized that the need for a mask of this quality would be extremely high in some of their home countries, such as China, Taiwan and India, where people suffer from respiratory distress due to the poor air quality. Eventually a team of 8 experts in the fields of industrial air filtration; clean room technology; product design and engineering came together to form CleanAirTek Inc, and the Individual Air Purifier was born.
