AI Visibility Index: Industrial Filters in Virginia

When a buyer asks an AI assistant for a industrial filters supplier in Virginia, these are the companies that get named. This is what we found when the cell was last measured.

78 companies tracked
Last measured September 30, 2026
Next measurement October 30, 2026

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The headline numbers

Never named by AI

58 of 78

companies never appeared in a single buying question

They were asked the same 5 buying questions as everyone else in this cell and were not named once.

20 named at least once
58 never named

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Cell average: 0.72of 15
Across all 78 tracked companies.
Top ten average: 4.6of 15
The ten most visible companies in the cell.

A company's score is how many of the 15 measured answers named it.

The top ten in Virginia

These are the companies AI assistants named most often when Virginia buyers went looking for a supplier in this category.

Top 10 most AI-visible Industrial Filters companies in Virginia, measured September 30, 2026
Rank	Company	Location	AI visibility
1	Air Filters Inc 14 employeesRichmond, Virginia	Richmond, Virginia	11 of 15 answers
2	Chase Filters & Components 5 employeesHampton, Virginia	Hampton, Virginia	9 of 15 answers
3	Filter Products Company 8 employeesRichmond, Virginia	Richmond, Virginia	4 of 15 answers
4	Stephen King & Associates 5 employeesRocky Mount, Virginia	Rocky Mount, Virginia	4 of 15 answers
5	Tidewater Air Filter Fabrication Company 26 employeesNorfolk, Virginia 3 name variants Tidewater Air Filter & Filtration Companymost common2 Tidewater Air Filter & Filtration Company (TAFFCO)1 Tidewater Air Filter & Filtration Co. (TAFFCO)1	Norfolk, Virginia	4 of 15 answers
6	Air Cleaning Technologies 42 employeesSterling, Virginia 2 name variants Air Cleaning Technologies (ACT)most common2 Air Cleaning Technologies1	Sterling, Virginia	3 of 15 answers
7	Lewis Systems & Service Co. 10 employeesLynchburg, Virginia	Lynchburg, Virginia	3 of 15 answers
8	Filtroil Virginia 2 name variants Filtroilmost common2 Filtroil LLC1	Virginia	3 of 15 answers
9	Porvair Filtration Group Virginia	Virginia	3 of 15 answers
10	Air Systems International, Inc. 43 employeesChesapeake, Virginia 2 name variants Air Systems International, Inc.most common1 Air Systems International1	Chesapeake, Virginia	2 of 15 answers

29 more companies were named at least once. Companies outside the top ten are counted in the averages but not named here.

Also named, based in another state

AI assistants named these companies too, but MacRAE'S lists them in a different state, not Virginia. They belong to that state's ranking, not this one.

Company	State	Mentions
AccuraFil	Illinois	2 of 15
Diversified Industrial Products (DI Products)	New York	2 of 15
DS Pipe & Steel Supply	Maryland	1 of 15
Motion Industries – Virginia branches	Illinois	1 of 15
Olds Filtration	Alabama	1 of 15
W.T. Maye, Inc.	Tennessee	1 of 15

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The five questions we asked

Every company in this cell is measured on the same questions, written the way a buyer would type them. That is what makes the ranking a comparison rather than a collection of anecdotes.

1“Best suppliers of industrial filters in Virginia”
2“Who supplies high-efficiency pleated HEPA filter cartridges in Virginia”
3“I need a Virginia industrial filtration partner for a continuous-duty chemical processing line, who should I talk to”
4“Top industrial filters suppliers in Virginia for plant maintenance and reliability buyers”
5“Which Virginia industrial filter manufacturers can handle custom housings rated for high-pressure corrosive media”
6“List 20 industrial filters companies in Virginia with their specialties.”the roster question

Each question is asked more than once, which is why a company's score is out of 15 answers rather than out of the number of questions.

Where AI drew its answers from

These are the sources the answers in this cell leaned on most, ranked by how many of the named companies each one stands behind.

thomasnet.comDirectory
8 companies
taffcovirginia.com
3 companies
diproducts-va.com
3 companies
aircleaningtechnologies.com
2 companies
filtroil.com
2 companies
carotek.com
2 companies
lewissystemsinc.com
2 companies
ptitechnologies.com
2 companies
chasefiltercompany.com
1 company
accurafil.com
1 company
afpind.com
1 company
airfiltersinc.com
1 company

40 sources were cited across this cell's answers from 35 domains. A directory page often stands behind several companies at once; a company's own site usually stands behind one.

Virginia in context

Virginia ranks 2nd of 21 measured states in this category. Each bar is the share of that state's tracked companies that AI assistants named at least once; across every measured state in this category the share is 12%.

Virginia (this report)Other measured statesCategory average (12%)

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