Mann+Hummel Gruppe is a family-owned manufacturer of liquid and air filter systems, intake systems and cabin air filters headquartered in

Ludwigsburg Ludwigsburg (; Swabian: ''Ludisburg'') is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, about north of Stuttgart city centre, near the river Neckar. It is the largest and primary city of the Ludwigsburg district with about 88,000 inhabitants. It is s ...

Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg (; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million inhabitants across a ...

, Germany.

History

Adolf Mann and Erich Hummel were the heads of the Stuttgart clothing company Bleyle, which during the

Second World War World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposi ...

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 Maybach (, ) is a German luxury car brand that exists today as a part of Mercedes-Benz. The original company was founded in 1909 by Wilhelm Maybach and his son Karl Maybach, originally as a subsidiary of ''Luftschiffbau Zeppelin GmbH'', and ...

-Motorenbau with the HL230 engine, used on Panzer tanks such as

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and

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. After the end of the war, in 1954, a branch was opened in Ludwigsburg, followed by Bösperde (1946) and

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(1962). 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. Mann died in 1971 followed by Hummel in 1984. In 2016, Mann+Hummel acquired the filter business of the American auto parts company Affinia Group, and with it almost all of the company. Kurk Wilks has been Mann+Hummel's CEO since January 2020.

Brands

Purolator Filters MANN+HUMMEL Purolator Filters LLC, more commonly known as Purolator, is an American manufacturer of oil and air filters, based in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Since 2013, it has been a subsidiary of German filter manufacturer Mann+Hummel. Pur ...

*Mann Filter *Wix Filters *Senzit *Microdyn-Nadir *Pamlico Air *Tridim Hardy *Qlair *Seccua *i2m *Tridim Filter Corporation *Helsatech Molecular Filtration *Filtron *Purar

References

External links

www.mann-hummel.com
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