UFI Filters Group, through its subsidiary UFI Filters Hydraulics, acquired 100% of Friedrichs Filtersysteme GmbH, a hydraulic filter manufacturer based in Wassenberg, North Rhine-Westphalia.
UFI Filters Group signed an agreement with the JiaXing XiuZhou High-Technology Industrial Park Administrative Committee for a new plant in Zhejiang Province producing filtration systems and thermal management products for new energy vehicles. The investment is valued at around 25 million euros, and production is set to start in 2023.
UFI Filters won a contract to supply engine oil coolers for the new 3.0L diesel engine in General Motors pickups and SUVs in the NAFTA market starting in 2023, produced at its plant in Mexico.
UFI Filters won a contract to supply a thermal management component for the Renault Nissan Mitsubishi Alliance's new full electric engines, shipped from its Asian plants to European and Japanese factories. The announcement was published on 2019-01-30.
UFI Filters has inaugurated its first European thermal management plant in Opole, Poland, doubling its global heat exchanger capacity by 2023. The 42 million PLN (about 10 million euro) investment is expected to create 250 jobs within five years.
UFI Filters is opening a new plant in Opole, Poland, to make heat exchangers with vacuum brazing, doubling its heat exchanger capacity. The 42 million PLN (about 10 million EUR) investment will create at least 65 jobs, with operations starting in Q2 2018.