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A supplier of filters that enable trucks to comply with London's Low Emission Zone (LEZ) has gone into administration, fuelling fears of supply problems for operators wishing to avoid fines. However, a fitter for the Gat EuroKat filter has stepped in to honour all orders placed by distributors after they faced losing money for all the orders placed.

Robert Rutherford at insolvency practitioners Parkin Booth confirms that Merseyside-based  A&I Peco went into administration on 30 June. It supplied filters which can convert Euro-0 vehicles into being Euro-4 compliant. It is now attempting to sell the business, but it is no longer trading after all production staff were dismissed.

Geoff Pridmore at GP Commercials in Edmonton says he had concerns for the orders it had placed for Peco's filters, but is relieved Longmore Auto Repairs (LAR) has stepped in. Pridmore says: "We have probably got ourselves covered now. Filters should be in by the 16 [July], which doesn't give us too long to fit them."

LAR boss Adam Longmore says: "We are handling the orders placed for Peco and are getting the money from Gat. There may be a delay of one or two weeks, though. "We had so many ordered through Peco we couldn't leave it. We had a meeting yesterday with Gat and they will supply us direct. We were so far in with it that it didn't make sense to let it go." Gat MD Gerd van Aaken says LAR was its largest distributor of the  Eurokat before Peco went into administration, but adds that there are other companies which also supply the filter.