Mann Hummel

The Mann Hummel Group, headquartered in Ludwigsburg, Württemberg is one of the three world leaders in the development, production and sales of liquid and air filter systems, intake systems and cabin filters. Additional products include cylinder head covers made of plastic with many integrated functions for the automotive industry, and filter elements for the maintenance and repair of motor vehicles. For general engineering, process engineering and industrial manufacturing sectors the product range includes industrial filters and membrane filters and equipment for water filtration. Around 90 percent of annual sales of around EUR 2.77 billion attributable to the activity in the automobile industry. The Company and its subsidiaries have more than 50 locations, including nine in Germany worldwide. Owner of the Mann Hummel Group are the families of the two founders.

History

Adolf Mann and Erich Hummel, Managing Director of the Stuttgart clothing manufacturer Bleyle acquired after the war-related adjustment of the Bleyle knitwear production, the filter systems division of the automotive supplier Mahle and took 1941 as a filter Mann Hummel GmbH with previous Bleyle employees the manufacture of textile and Filzluftfiltern for the vehicle industry. Among other things, air filters for the Maybach engines HL were 230 made ​​, which were incorporated into the German Panzerkampfwagen type Panther and Tiger. After the war was a gradual expansion of production. So in 1954 a second plant in Ludwigsburg and the branch locations in Bösperde (1946) and in Marklkofen (1962 ) were established. In addition to air filters and oil filters are manufactured since 1958, which are also supplied mainly to the automotive industry. The company name is the "Filter Factory " in 2003 was attributable to the change of name to Mann Hummel GmbH.

From the late 1940s, Mann Hummel was under the name of man Pamina modes also in the textile industry worked before this business was sold in 1974 Schiesser. Further diversification of the filter manufacturing, there is, inter alia, since 1948 active in the machine is being made especially for the plastics industry business system technology.

From 1952 founded Mann Hummel Betriebskrankenkasse today acting as general statutory health insurance MHPLUS BKK emerged.

Products

Products for the original equipment for passenger and commercial vehicles

Air filter systems

  • Cabin filter, air filter, air filter systems, components
  • Air distribution components: raw, fresh and charge air pipes
  • Crankcase ventilation systems and components

Suction systems

  • Suction systems and modules
  • Components of swirl and tumble

Liquid filter systems

  • Oil filter and oil filter systems
  • Oil centrifuge
  • Fuel filter and fuel filter systems

Subsystems and components on and around the engine

  • Cylinder head covers
  • Covers for the engine compartment
  • Liquid container
  • Acoustic components: broadband silencer, resonators, sound management, Symposer and mouth flap
  • Technical plastic parts for the engine compartment

Filter elements and systems for industry and trade

Filter elements

  • Filter elements for air and fluids (oil, fuel )
  • Cabin Air Filters
  • Drying boxes
  • Cooling water filter
  • Oil and fuel filters
  • Filter elements for oil mist separator
  • Urea filter

Industrial Filters

  • Cabin Air Filters
  • Exhaust filters
  • Oil centrifuge
  • Filter for electric discharge

Products and equipment for water filtration

  • Ultrafiltration systems
  • Reverse osmosis systems and bioreactors for water filtration

Conservation

The automotive industry is stepping up its efforts to combine mobility with environmental protection and economic efficiency. Automotive suppliers to make significant contributions - about 70 percent of an automobile come from their factories.

Environmental protection is a strategic corporate goal at Mann Hummel - fixed in the corporate guidelines and pari passu with economic objectives such as growth, profitability and market presence. Since early 2006, applies a uniform standard of environmental protection for the entire group. Environmental Commissioner and environmental management systems to support and document the implementation of the Group- wide standards. As early as 1998 led Sonnenberg be the first site an environmental management system. Currently, 24 plants worldwide are certified according to the environmental standard ISO 14001. The certification of the recent works carried out successively.

In addition to the environmentally friendly production is increasingly on the environmental impact of the products themselves in focus. Plastic materials from recycling - so-called " recompounded Plastic Materials " - can reduce the environmental impact significantly. Mann Hummel, for example, has developed a cylinder head cover from such recompounded Plastic material and introduced into the series. The material consists of polyamide fibers which arise as a committee and overproduction in carpet manufacturing.

Engineering plastics are increasingly replacing the hitherto predominant material in the engine compartment metal and thus reduce the vehicle weight. Lighter vehicles have lower fuel consumption. Less fuel means less emissions.

Plastic offers weight advantages but also new possibilities for the design of components and thus a higher degree of functional integration. This reduces typically the material consumption. An example of this is at the IAA in 2007, the prototype of a plastic oil pan for passenger cars Compared with hybrid components made of aluminum and plastic saves the product around 30 percent lighter, compared with pure aluminum components of the weight advantage is as high as around 60 percent.

Research and Development

Mann Hummel has about 800 employees in research and development. About four percent of the total annual sales is invested in these areas. Around 3,000 patents or patent applications, document the high value. Besides purely technological factors play in the research and development and societal trends as well as ecological and economic parameters play a role. To evaluate these factors, commissioned Mann Hummel regularly studies with external partners, such as the Max Planck and Fraunhofer Institutes.

Also in terms of biofuels, the company conducts research for new solutions: In special test laboratories the Mann Hummel experts examine about their long-term behavior, so as to optimize the material for filter materials and components for the biofuels used worldwide resistant.

The company is expanding air filter for electric and hybrid vehicles for air-cooled batteries. The Group also systems that regulate the pressure and humidity inside the lithium -ion battery and protect the batteries developed.

The water transfer applications, the developers their knowledge of the simulation of the flow geometry of fuels and oil on water. The experience in the processing of high-quality plastics play an important role in water filtration. Mann Hummel develops and manufactures in terms of water filtration plastic membranes and systems for very different needs: ultrafiltration, membrane bio - reactors, reverse osmosis. Target applications include water treatment in remote rural communities, departments and residential complexes, mining, oil and gas industry, electric power plants, semiconductor manufacturing facilities, in the chemical processing industry and others.

Chronicle

1941 Adolf Mann and Erich Hummel found the " Filter Mann Hummel GmbH (now Mann Hummel GmbH) in Ludwigsburg near Stuttgart

1946 The production company for industrial filters " Filap " ( filters and equipment ) is founded in Bösperde, Westphalia

1948 Foundation of the business unit " systems engineering " (now MANN HUMMEL ProTec GmbH)

1951 Design and production launch of filters with fine filter elements made ​​of paper for the filtration of air and oil

1952 Filap moves from Bösperde to Speyer

1958 Start of production of replacement filters for oil

1959 Start of cooperation with filter manufacturers in Argentina and Brazil

1962 buying an old pasta factory in Marklkofen / Bavaria and remodeling for the third production site in Germany

1965 Foundation of the first foreign company: Filtros man SA, Zaragoza / Spain, today: Mann Hummel Iberica

1969 acquisition of a further production plant in Ludwigsburg and extension of the " systems engineering " (now MANN HUMMEL ProTec GmbH)

1970 Summary of Speyer works at the present location of the business area Industrial Filters

1981 Start of development of engine intake plastic

1988 acquisition of Hydromation N.V. in Tongeren / Belgium

1991 Acquisition of the company Plasta Sonnenberg GmbH / Thuringia, today: Mann Hummel GmbH

1992 Foundation of the business area Industrial Filters

1993 start-ups in the Czech Republic and Mexico; Acquisition of Somos GmbH, Weiterstadt

1994 Foundation of Mann Hummel USA, INC.

1995 Several acquisitions and start-ups in the U.S., UK, Singapore and China

1997 spin-off of the business area in the ProTec MANN HUMMEL ProTec GmbH, Ludwigsburg; Acquisition of Vollmar plant technology ( ProTec Business Unit )

1998 Acquisition of Advanced Filtration Concepts, Inc., Louisville, Kentucky / USA and the Geiger Technic, Inc., Kalamazoo, Michigan / USA. Today: Mann Hummel USA, INC.

1999 Foundation of Mann Hummel Japan Ltd.. in Yokohama and Mann Hummel France S.A.R.L. in Gennevilliers, France

2000 Acquisition of the range Oil Conditioning Systems (OCS ) by the U.S. Federal Mogul Group; Establishment of a sales office in Warsaw / Poland and the joint venture GUD Mann Hummel Filter Systems (Pty ) Ltd.. in Atlantis / South Africa.

2001 Foundation of man and Hummel Australia Pty. Ltd.. in Sydney / Australia

2002 Acquisition of the division Air Induction Systems and Technical Parts (AIS / TP ) of the Belgian Solvay Group founding of the Service Centre Scandinavia, Gothenburg, Sweden; Establishment of the joint venture Shanghai Mann Hummel Filter Co., Ltd.. in Shanghai, China; Establishment of the joint venture Mann Hummel Filter Co. Ltd. Fawer. in Changchun, China; Establishment of a joint venture in South Korea: Mann Hummel Dongwoo Co. Ltd.. (now Mann Hummel Dongwoo Co. Ltd.).

2003 Change of name of the filter Mann Hummel GmbH in Mann Hummel GmbH; Establishment of a sales office in Sondrio, Italy; Establishment of a sales location for the business ProTec in Gex, France, after the acquisition of Per- Color SarL; Relocation of ProTec locations Weiterstadt and King Winter to Bensheim / Hessen; Opening of a sales office in Bangalore, India

2004 Foundation of Mann Hummel Italia S.r.l. in Turin, Italy; Establishment of the joint venture Mann Hummel Wako Co. Ltd.. based in Shin -Yokohama, Japan

2005 Foundation of man and Hummel Filter Private Limited in Bangalore, India; Establishment of Mann Hummel Hungary Ltd.. based in Budapest, Hungary; Establishment of sales offices in Moscow, Russia, and Istanbul, Turkey

2006 Establishment of a joint venture in India; Majority takeover of Unico filter DD, Bosnia - Herzegovina; Renamed Mann Hummel BA J.S.C. Tesanj; The Bosch Group and Mann Hummel take over on April 1, 2006, the Purolator filter business from ArvinMeritor Inc.; Establishment of Mann Hummel Korea Limited, Seoul

2007 Establishment of subsidiary Mann Hummel OOO in Moscow, Russia; Acquisition of the cabin air filter manufacturer helsa - automotive GmbH & Co. KG with its headquarters in Gefrees 100 percent acquisition of the Chinese joint ventures Shanghai Mann Hummel Filter Co. Ltd.

2008 Change of name helsa - automotive GmbH & Co. KG Mann Hummel cabin filter GmbH & Co. KG. 100 percent acquisition of Korean joint ventures Mann Hummel Dongwoo; Establishment of Mann Hummel Filter (Shanghai ) Co. Ltd.. in Shanghai, China; Sale of the U.S. subsidiary, Universal Dynamics Inc. to the Italian group Piovan creation of man ve Sanayi ve Ticaret Limited Hummel Filtre Sirketi in Istanbul, Turkey; Foundation of MANN HUMMEL SP. Z.O.O. in Warsaw, Poland

2009 merger of MANN HUMMEL MANN HUMMEL Dongwoo and Korea; Foundation of MANN HUMMEL (CHINA) CO., LTD. LTD.; Opening of a new production facility in Nalagarh, India

2010 New Locations in Contagem City, Brazil ( MANN HUMMEL Brasil ) and Jinan, China ( MANN HUMMEL FILTER ( Jinan) CO LTD.). ; Opening of China headquarters with research and development center in Jiading (Shanghai, China); Takeover of the membrane specialist Ultra -Flo, Singapore

2012 takeover of Fluid Brasil Sistemas e Tecnologia LTDA. ( Expert in water filtration ), headquartered in Jundiaí, Brazil; Foundation of MANN and HUMMEL Thailand Ltd., Bangkok, Thailand.; Foundation of MANN HUMMEL Middle East FZE, Dubai ( DAFZA ), United Arab Emirates; Opening a new plant in Liuzhou, southern China

2013 acquisition of Purolator filters LLC, formerly a joint venture between Bosch and MANN HUMMEL; Renamed MANN HUMMEL Purolator filter LLC.

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