From small filter factory to global market leader

More than 24 filter elements per second – that is the average production rate at MANN+HUMMEL, the world market leader in filtration technology. Around 20,000 people work for the traditional
Württemberg company at more than 80 international sites.

Car makers, machinery and plant builders from around the globe rely on the experience and expertise of the filter specialist from Ludwigsburg, near Stuttgart. MANN+HUMMEL filter systems are used in both industrial applications and water treatment plants. The company offers comprehensive solutions with a high vertical range of production. This includes intake, fluid and oil filters systems with all the relevant components that can be integrated into the respective vehicle type without further production steps being required on the part of the car makers. MANN+HUMMEL stocks modular product systems and produces custom-made solutions for its customers. Industrial filters are deployed in construction and agricultural machinery, track vehicles and boats, in energy systems, vacuum pumps, compressors and motorised small appliances, for instance. The water filtration division develops and produces diaphragms and filter systems for reverse osmosis, ultra filtration and biological diaphragm reactors. MANN+HUMMEL also produces spare parts for the majority of vehicles on the road around the world, and offers customers the same high quality standards as in new production.

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Technology centre

The two company founders Adolf Mann and Dr. Erich Hummel focused their business activities on filtration from the beginning – always paired by a high sense of social responsibility. The two managing directors of the Bleyle textile company leased the filter department of the Mahle company in 1941 in order to save this business sector and the jobs of the employees engaged in this division. They founded the “Filterwerke Mann + Hummel GmbH” for the purpose, which today operates under the name “MANN+HUMMEL GmbH”. The company has distinguished itself from the first by a long line of in-house developments. The German family-run company is one of the 50 most industrious patent filers at the German Patent and Trade Mark Office and holds more than 1,200 patents.

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MANN+HUMMEL GMBH
Hindenburgstraße 45
71631 Ludwigsburg
+49 7141 98-0
info@mann-hummel.com