WIX Filters celebrates its 80th anniversary

Company now operates in 80 countries, selling filters for passenger cars and heavy machinery

WIX Filters celebrates its 80th anniversary
Early WIX manufacturing.

WIX Filters credits its many years of knowledge, competent specialists, modern production lines, well equipped laboratories, constant quality control and raw materials sourced only from reputable suppliers for the company’s success.

A spokesperson said: “We control the entire production process: from the selection of materials, through semi-finished products, to the manufacture of the finished product and its delivery to the warehouse.

“Our brand is a trustworthy business partner all over the world.”

In 2016, WIX Filters was acquired by the MANN+HUMMEL Group and is now part of the largest company specialising in filtration technology worldwide.

WIX Filters was founded in an old cotton mill in Gastonia by Jack Wicks and his business partner, Paul Crenshaw, who needed an inexhaustible supply of pure white cotton thread waste for the filtering media of their new company.

At the time, Gastonia (USA) and Gaston County produced more combed cotton yarn than anywhere else in the world.

Wicks and Crenshaw soon saw a need for filter replacements that would simplify the filter changing process and, within 15 years, they turned the filter market upside down with the invention and patent of a spin-on oil filter design – known at the time as “twist of the wrist” – that quickly became the industry standard.

Today, WIX Filters range includes over 16,000 separate automotive products, designed for use in passenger vehicles, trucks, buses and heavy machines and equipment.

The WIX Filters portfolio includes oil, fuel, air and cabin filters, as well
as air dryers, coolant and hydraulic filters.

Inventors of the spin-on oil filter

The ‘spin-on’ filter was invented by WIX founders, Wicks and Crenshaw at the WIX Filters Laboratory in 1954, and has since become a world standard.

This filter consists of an element located in a steel-threaded housing, with which the filter is screwed directly onto the engine bodies.

Supplier to the OE

Many years of experience, acquired by knowledge, constant development and ultimately high quality of WIX filters products have led to establishing co-operation with car manufacturers.

To become a supplier to the OE, several requirements and formalities must be met.

All manufactured filters and filter elements for the automotive industry are of comparable quality, as are the components which are, or have been, used for the assembly of particular cars in accordance with the COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No. 461/2010 of 27 May 2010 on the application of Article 101 sec. 3 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union to categories of vertical agreements and concerted practices in the motor vehicle sector.

WIX’s spokesperson continued: “Our materials are subjected to regular laboratory control to maintain a high standard of quality.

“We can confidently say that the filter media, valves, springs, housings and other filter elements meet the requirements of the vehicle manufacturers and work well in the most difficult operating conditions.

“Our quality management systems meet the requirements of IIATF 16949, as well as the ISO 14001:2015 environmental standard.”

The company says that new solutions are constantly introduced to ensure increasingly accurate filtration.

New raw materials and filtration solutions arealso being designed and tested everyday to give a higher and more fluid solution to the highest filtration requirements for the modern engine.

These projects and others are being implemented in two major research and development centres in the United States and Poland.

Both centres include construction, technology and manufacturing divisions, as well as high-end laboratories.

This is where the complete process of developing new solutions and products takes place.

Microban technology used in all cabin filters

Thanks to the Microban system, WIX cabin filters have become extremely effective in terms of protecting the health of passengers.

They remove not only solid particles (dust, soot, pollen) from the air, but also bacteria and allergens which are invisible to the human eye.

Find out more about WIX Filters by following the ‘more details’ link.

Have your say!

0 0

Lost Password

Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.