MANN-FILTER, experts in automotive filtration, explains why you shouldn’t even consider cleaning your customers’ air filters.  The air filter is an often undervalued filter, with the ‘oil and filter’ interim service or perception that the air filter is of secondary importance to the engine commonplace. There are many stories of air filters being cleaned or ‘blown out’ to save ...

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Mann+Hummel explains why filter media, that is the material a filter is made from, is the heartbeat of a filter, and why all media is not equal. Afilter is a filter, right? Whether it’s air, oil, fuel, cabin, hydraulic, they all stop contamination by filtering air or liquids through filter ‘paper’. So, this ‘paper’ (filter ...

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Mann+Hummel explores the role cabin air filters play in improving drivers and passengers’ health. Millions of people around the world are suffering from the effects of polluted air, not only outdoors in spaces with a lot of traffic, but also inside vehicles. It is therefore becoming essential to improve air quality by reducing particulate matter ...

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Mann+Hummel examines the cost-saving benefits associated with using OE spec filters when servicing a customer’s vehicle. Quality filters to OE specification, such as the Mann-Filter range of air, oil and fuel filters, offer the optimum protection for the vehicle engine (and the vehicle’s occupants, in the case of the cabin filter) by removing harmful and/or ...

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MANN-Filter offers workshops a solution for replacing a filter in a vehicle which is compatible with synthetic fuels. Climate change is one of the biggest dangers facing mankind and requires urgent action. In 2018, road traffic was responsible for around 18% of global emissions of climate-damaging CO2. According to forecasts by the SMMT, BEVs (Battery Electric Vehicles) will still only account for around 25% of the ...

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The MANN+HUMMEL Group has announced plans to close its main manufacturing facility at Hilton Cross Business Park in Wolverhampton. The decision has been made as the company continues to review its operational footprint as well as factors such as a difficult market environment, declining manufacturing volume, and the entire automotive industry undergoing a structural transition ...

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Cabin air filters are the main barrier against nitrogen oxides and particulate matter, preventing drivers from potentially dangerous irritations and discomfort. Filtration specialist Mann+Hummel believes it has the ideal solution. The combustion of diesel fuel in the vehicle engine at high temperatures produces various pollutants, such as particulate matter and nitrogen oxides, which are released into the atmosphere via the exhaust gases. Each ...

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The 2020/21 print catalogues for Mann-Hummel’s filtration brand, Mann-Filter, are now available. The catalogue contains 4,900 filter elements for more than 58,400 vehicles and machines for the European spare parts market. 114 filter types for the latest cars, trucks, and off-highway models complement the already wide range of filters in original equipment quality. This year’s version includes new editions ...

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MANN+HUMMEL has announced it will collaborate with Ford Motor Company in the rapid development and production of powered air purifier respirators. MANN+HUMMEL will supply the HEPA filter in the Ford-produced respirator, which will be worn by healthcare workers when treating COVID-19 patients. To date, MANN+HUMMEL produces, tests and ships 3,500 HEPA filter elements per day ...

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MANN+HUMMEL have opened its first office on the continent of Africa. The filtration specialist with headquarters in Ludwigsburg, Germany founded a sales office in August that will conduct its business from the South African metropole of Johannesburg. Initially six employees will work at the new office. They will primarily support automotive aftermarket customers and industrial ...

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