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<\/p>\nUFI Filters is this year celebrating the 50th anniversary of the business. The Universal Filter Italiana S.p.A. was founded in 1971 in Verona, Italy, where it is still the group\u2019s headquarters and has the aim of supplying filtration systems to the automotive market.<\/p>\n
In order to expand distribution possibilities in the aftermarket, the company founded Sofima in 1981. The group then began collaboration with leading Formula 1 teams.<\/p>\n
UFI says in 1983 it was the\u00a0first company\u00a0in the sector to\u00a0establish contact with China, where nowadays it is recognised as a supplier of excellence for the Original Equipment Market (OEM) in the automotive sector.<\/p>\n
Nine years later in 1992, Sofima Hydraulics, the production of filtration solutions for the hydraulic sector began in Bergamo, Italy. In 1999 it became Planet Filters.<\/p>\n
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In 1996 the group was the first European filtration company to enter the Chinese market, inaugurating the Sofima Automotive Filter Shanghai Co.. The end of the 90s was a period of strong growth, according to UFI, as the company says it dominated the automobile manufacturing market for fuel filters which ensured the separation of water from diesel.<\/p>\n
UFI Filters says in 2001 it consolidated its reputation as a global OEM supplier to the world\u2019s largest automobile manufacturing companies. UFI arrived in the United States, where\u00a0UFI Filters inc.\u00a0was founded in Atlanta. During this period, investment was concentrated on the expansion of the\u00a0Research and Development\u00a0department located in the group\u2019s headquarters in Italy.<\/p>\n
The UFI Innovation Centre was founded in 2006, a research and development centre dedicated to the study, design, testing and development of new filtering materials, which boasts the collaboration with the physics department of the University of Trento \u2013 one of the most prestigious in Italy.<\/p>\n
Fast forward to 2015, where the new all-in-one Sofima Filters plant was built in Tunisia for the production and assembly of air and diesel filters for the main automotive manufactures and the European independent spare parts market. The same year also saw UFI open the new\u00a0front office of Dubai, a strategic-commercial outpost for the\u00a0aftermarkets\u00a0in the Middle East and Africa.<\/p>\n
In 2018, UFI Filters inaugurated the ‘UFI Filters Poland Zoo’, its\u00a0first Thermal Management Plant\u00a0in Europe, that allows the group to double its global production capacity for innovative heat exchangers, produced following the latest vacuum-brazed technology.<\/p>\n
Now in 2021, the company is recognised as a point of reference in the\u00a0filtration sector\u00a0and in the production of heat exchangers for combustion, electric and hybrid vehicles, with business premises on five continents.<\/p>\n
UFI Filters says it is committed to setting\u00a0ever-higher standards, to\u00a0creating and ensuring maximum efficiency\u00a0in the world of filtration and to providing new tailor-made\u00a0solutions\u00a0thanks to the solid know-how that it has built up since 1971.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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