We can say, “We're the world leaders in the production of cooker hoods. Our level of quality is the highest you can find anywhere. We have exclusive awards and certifications. We have designs that are so new and various that we can satisfy every style and every degree of aesthetic sensibility.”

Twenty-six million families in the last thirty years have bought an Elica product. Twenty-six million families that have breathed, and are breathing, fresher air in their kitchen thanks to Elica. We're present in so many houses round the world because the biggest producers of kitchens and household appliances, and their users, prefer to choose Elica. And it's the importance that we at Elica give – and that you give – to quality of life which makes us want to explain here why it's important to choose carefully when you choose a cooker hood – and why it's important to call things by their correct names. Because when you choose a cooker hood, you're choosing the air that you breathe. In these pages, Elica wants to offer you some advice. Buying a cooker hood is an important step: you'll be using it for years to come, and perhaps until today you haven't even given it a great deal of thought, but we hope that reading this will give you a guide to how to make a considered choice, and that our beliefs and values stand out clearly – helping you, as far as we're able, to live in a better environment.