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Freudenberg expands in China with new filter plant
Camfil Farr changes name back to Camfil
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reudenberg has opened a new CNY36 million production facility in Chengdu, Sichuan Province to serve the growing demand for automotive filters in Western China. Freudenberg Vilene Filter (Chengdu) Co Ltd, a joint venture between Freudenberg Filtration Technologies and Japan Vilene Co Ltd, will produce engine air intake filters and cabin air filters for the Chinese automotive industry and serve as a logistics and service centre for industrial filtration components and systems. The 12 000 sq m manufacturing site is situated at Xindu Industrial Park in Chengdu. Sixty employees will be working at the new site by the end of 2013. “This is an important step. Together we will deliver state-of-the-art filtration technology to the growing automotive industry in Chengdu with companies like Volkswagen and Geely Volvo,” said Dr Joerg Sievert, a member of the Freudenberg Filtration Technologies management board and chairman of the Freudenberg Filter China board. The project took seven months from the ground breaking to the start of production. Freudenberg Filtration Technologies already has plants in Changchun and Suzhou, China.”
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For further information, visit www.freudenberg-filter. com and www.vilene.co.jp
For further information, visit www.camfil.com and www.camfilapc.com
wedish air filtration specialist Camfil Farr is changing its official name back to Camfil, as the company celebrates its 50th anniversary. The air filtration specialist adopted the Camfil Farr name following Camfil’s acquisition of Farr Co in 2000. The company says that the Camfil name is now well known in the US and throughout the world and that the time is right, particularly with its 50th anniversary approaching, to go back to the original Camfil name. Camfil Farr Air Pollution Control, a producer of dust and fume collectors, is now operating under the name Camfil Air Pollution Control. Customers will continue to see the Farr name and logo on the Farr Gold Series dust collector. The Camfil group, headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, has 3484 employees and sales of around SEK4.9 billion. International markets account for almost 90% of sales. Founded in 1963 as a joint venture between Luftkonditionering and Cambridge Air Filter Co, today Camfil has a worldwide network of state-of-the-art R&D facilities, including a newly opened research centre in Trosa, Sweden.
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