This product is a new, packaged and sealed water filter cartridge as used on the new Lincat F range kettles. Please note that these are the genuine  filters used by Lincat as well. These filters are compatible with EB3F, EB4F, EB6F and EB6FT models. The filter is an AP2-C401-SG. The filters are sourced directly from  and are sealed and packaged. These stylish filters are approx. 240mm long x 45mm wide, they can be slid into the AP2 filter head of the kettle and rotated. Lincat/ have recently redesigned this filter: it is now narrower, but the water throughput has been increased from 3000 to 4000 litres.