MANN+HUMMEL Gruppe is a family-owned manufacturer of liquid and air filter systems, intake systems and cabin air filters headquartered in Ludwigsburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
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| Company type | GmbH |
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| Industry | Automotive |
| Founded | 1941 |
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| Headquarters | , Germany |
Key people | Kurk Wilks (CEO) Emese Weissenbacher (CFO) |
Number of employees | 21,149 |
| Subsidiaries | Purolator Filters |
| Website | www |
History
editAdolf Mann and Erich Hummel were the heads of the Stuttgart clothing company Bleyle, which during the Second World War became a supplier to the fellow-citizen company Mahle. They thus founded Filterwerk MANN+HUMMEL GmbH in 1941 and employees produced fabric filters for the automotive industry. Customers include Maybach-Motorenbau with the HL230 engine, used on Panzer tanks such as Panther and Tiger.[1] After the end of the war, in 1945, a branch was opened in Ludwigsburg, followed by Bösperde (1946) and Marklkofen (1962).[2][3]
From the late 1940s onwards, MANN+HUMMEL was also active in the textile industry under the name Mann Pamina Moden, before this line of business was sold to Schiesser in 1974. Since 1948, there is further diversification beyond filter production through the equipment manufacturing division, particularly for the plastics industry.[4][5] Mann died in 1971 followed by Hummel in 1984.[6]
In 2016, MANN+HUMMEL acquired the filter business of the American auto parts company Affinia Group, and with it almost all of the company.[7] Kurk Wilks has been MANN+HUMMEL's CEO since January 2020.[8]
Brands
edit- Purolator Filters
- MANN-FILTER
- WIX
- Senzit
- Microdyn-Nadir
- Pamlico Air
- Tridim Hardy
- Qlair
- Seccua
- i2m
- Tridim Filter Corporation
- Helsatech Molecular Filtration
- FILTRON
- Purar
References
edit- ^ Walter J. Spielberger: Der Panzerkampfwagen Tiger und seine Abarten. Motorbuch Verlag, ISBN 3-87943-456-5, S. 191
- ^ "Pressemitteilung von Wirtschaftsförderung Region Stuttgart und MANN+HUMMEL zur MANN+HUMMEL-Unternehmensgeschichte". 9 August 2005. Archived from the original on 14 July 2012.
- ^ "MANN+HUMMEL-Unternehmensgeschichte auf der Firmenwebsite". Retrieved 20 February 2014.
- ^ "Pressemitteilung von Wirtschaftsförderung Region Stuttgart und MANN+HUMMEL zur MANN+HUMMEL-Unternehmensgeschichte". 2005-08-09. Archived from the original on 2012-07-14. Retrieved 2008-11-20.
- ^ "MANN+HUMMEL-Unternehmensgeschichte auf der Firmenwebsite". Retrieved 2014-02-20.
- ^ Stuttgarter Nachrichten Nr. 30, 6. Februar 2016, S. 11.
- ^ Sheahan, Maria (2015-08-17). "Germany's Mann + Hummel agrees to buy U.S. peer Affinia". Reuters. Retrieved 2021-09-09.
- ^ "MANN+HUMMEL benennt neue Geschäftsführung". 2019-12-11. Retrieved 2020-02-11.
- ^ "Brands".