There are two production facilities in Italy and one in Great Britain. Production is intended 30% for the Italian market and the remaining 70% for the international market.

Structure

Our industrial craftsmanship and capacity to supply tailor-made products and systems allowed us to grow so rapidly that in just a few years our sales networks had to be significantly expanded with the opening of new production facilities and our first sales points abroad, thereby extending our presence in new markets.
In the 1980s we built a new foundry and took over an entire mechanical engineering plant, and in 2002 we opened another factory at Pessano con Bornago, combining highly functional production processes with advanced logistics and a prestigious image.
Our group also has several sales and assistance subsidiaries to provide support for customers at an international level.

Industry Leader

MP Filtri is a worldwide leader in the field of hydraulic filtration equipment. Our customer-oriented philosophy, which enables us to satisfy all customer requests rapidly and with personalised products, makes us a dynamic and flexible enterprise. The possibility of constantly controlling and monitoring the entire production process is essential to allow us to guarantee the quality of our products.
We have a comprehensive presence in all markets, both geographically and for different industrial sectors. As much as 70% of our production output is for the foreign market, with the residual 30% distributed in Italy.

The group’s six foreign sales divisions are located in the USA, UK, Germany, France, Canada and China, and we recently opened new branches at Bangalore in India, with MP Filtri India, and in Russia, with Italfiltri, based in Moscow. These foreign locations enable us to offer a diversified range of products that allow us to successfully face the aggressive challenge of international competition, and also to maintain a stable presence at a local level.

Human Resources

MP Filtri boasts a young and dynamic team of some 300 skilled employees, all highly motivated, qualified and firm believers in the jobs they do, eager to grow and committed to innovation.
Their creative capacities and technical and organisational skills decisively enhance the know-how of our group, representing an essential point of reference which allows us to maintain an authoritative presence in international markets.

Technology and Production

Our constant quest for excellence in quality and technological innovation allows us to offer only the best solutions and services for applications in many fields, including general industry, test rigs, lubrication, heavy engineering, renewable energies, naval engineering, offshore engineering, aviation systems, emerging technologies and mobile plant (tractors, excavators, concrete pumps, platforms).

Our high level of technological expertise means we can rely entirely on our own resources, without resorting to external providers. This in turn enables us to satisfy a growing number of customer requests, also exploiting our constantly updated range of machines and equipment, featuring fully-automated workstations capable of 24-hour production.

MP Filtri can offer a vast and articulated range of products for the global market, suitable for all industrial sectors using hydraulic equipment. This includes filters (suction, in-line, pressure, stainless steel, spin-on and return) and structural components (motor/pump bell housings, transmission couplings, flexible inserts, damper rings, support feet, aluminium tanks, inspection hatches).

We can provide all the skills and solutions required by the modern hydraulics industry to monitor contamination levels and other fluid conditions.

Mobile filtration units and a full range of accessories allow us to supply everything necessary for complete hydraulic circuits.

CMP Division

We dedicate particular attention to Research & Development. At the CMP Division research facility in the UK, MP Filtri designs, creates and updates high-technology products to track the resistance, filtration and monitoring of contamination in hydraulic fluids, and the accumulation of pollutants. This is also where high-quality instruments are designed and constructed for portable use and laboratory applications.

Certified Quality

Quality is a fundamental condition and a crucial principle for all our products. The battery of tests, analysis and checks that we subject them to is an eloquent example of the vocation for reliability that has distinguished our corporate philosophy since the outset.

Over the last few years, MP Filtri has obtained ISO 9001 certification for its quality system, followed more recently by Vision 2000 certification, and all company functions are governed by these standards.

Gost-R is a certification of conformity with the standards and requirements of the Russian Federation. This ceaseless activity of controls from raw materials right through to the packing and shipping of final products is the best possible guarantee of quality for all our customers.

Communication

MP Filtri promotes its products at all the main world trade fairs of the sector. Our company is also present in the main trade and specialist journals, and in the Italian financial press. Accurate information and updates for stakeholders are published regularly on our website.

BUSINESS

Around two-thirds of turnover is produced abroad through a commercial structure that currently has eight subsidiaries operating in Germany, France, Great Britain, USA, Canada, Russia, China and India. Service and distribution in the remaining geographical areas are covered by leading organisations in the respective regions or nations.

The sectors that MP Filtri’s products are aimed at range from industry to mobile operating machines, especially earthmoving machinery, wind turbine generators and plastics machinery made by the most high-standing global manufacturers.

The capacity to fuse and boost the energy that flows from diversified manufacturing companies has enabled MP Filtri to improve its performance considerably: in production cycle management by increasing efficiency and reducing production costs; in the company’s technological know-how, removing dependence on suppliers; and in the products and services offered to customers, in terms of expanding the production range and of the possibility of customising the product.

These successes provide the framework for a strong, compact group which is still flexible: this latter feature is increasingly appreciated by the market.

OPERATING FACILITIES

The Pessano con Bornago facility is based in a brand new building opened in 2007. As well as housing the central departments, the building is also the location for moulding plastic components, production of filter elements and assembly of complete filters.

QUALITY

The second stage of the production process is carried out by the MP Machining Workshops, which subject the semi-finished products from the foundry to a series of processes performed by a work centre and digitally controlled machine tools.

The third and final stage is the assembly of the filter element known as the “core of the product”, which is also produced by MP Filtri at its main facility. The use and development of innovative technologies in the production process is definitely one of the factors that contribute to the continuous improvement of MP products. The series of tests, checks and controls to which MP Filtri subjects its products is an eloquent example of that desire for quality that has always characterised the company.

The controls start from the selection of suppliers, which must guarantee perfect quality of the materials and reliability of deliveries. Each year, the Purchasing Department and the Quality Department update the register of official suppliers if the required parameters are not met or are replaced with more effective ones. Special attention is paid to the filter elements and they are subjected to meticulous tests to check their pollutant accumulation capacity. Size controls are performed on the mechanical parts of the filter at the end of each processing stage to establish their total conformity to the drawings. Standard finished products are subjected to careful percentage conformity checks so that any batches that do not meet the technical specifications can be accurately identified whereas all special products are checked.

For MP Filtri’s customers, this constant control activity represents the best guarantee of quality. Creating a good product is important but is not sufficient for success. Attention to quality is a strategic choice for MP Filtri. It involves not only the production process but also, and especially, the relationship with the customer: before and after the purchase. Beforehand, the company provides specialist customised advice on the choice and definition of the product based on the actual application requirements. Afterwards, it provides high quality and effective assistance with a full line of accessories and original parts.

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

The innovative component that characterises MP Filtri’s products is part - so to speak - of the company’s genetic heritage. Since it was founded, MP Filtri has paid almost obsessive attention to the research and development of cutting-edge technological solutions, allocating substantial resources to these activities each year. Its research and development laboratory is considered one of the best in Europe. In this “creative forge”, a staff of technology experts responds to requirements originating from the market, making new high quality products, capable of meeting the strict standards set by international regulations.

All the design stages are carried out using sophisticated CAD computer-aided design systems, which make it possible to reduce the product development period while improving quality at the same time. If MP Filtri has become, in just a few years, a fundamental benchmark for those operating in the sector, both in Italy and abroad, this is in good measure due to its research and development laboratory because it is from here that the development process that will give life to increasingly innovative and reliable products starts.

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION

Of course, the capacity to meet increasingly demanding and specific requests requires an extremely flexible structure, capable of producing to demand and guaranteeing a tailor-made service.

Thanks to this flexibility, MP Filtri has been able to build a very prestigious image for itself in the market: the image of a serious and reliable partner, of a party that is always willing to understand and meet its customers’ needs.

To do this, MP Filtri is continually committed to improving and increasing its “customer response” capacity, understanding that this is the only possible route to being truly competitive.

PRODUCTION

The first operation is to make the outer parts of the filter, which can be made of aluminium or cast iron: MP Filtri develops the technical design and entrusts the production of the moulds to specialist companies.

The majority of aluminium casting is done by MP Filtri in its own foundry, whereas other components are produced by specialist and certified suppliers.

The MP Filtri production range has 4 divisions: fluid cleaning filters for use on suction and return lines, in-line for medium-pressure with single and duplex bodies or battery installations; structural components for coupling the motor to the pump using bell housings and drive couplings.

The line is completed with aluminium tanks, feet for mounting electric motors in the B3 mounting position, inspection doors for tanks and damping rings for vertical mounting of the motor/pump assembly on the tank cover; hydraulic circuit accessories such as filler and breather plugs, optical and electrical level indicators, pressure gauge switches, pressure gauges and pipe and hose mounting brackets and clamps; products for monitoring contamination for the production of particle counters and accessories.

AUTOMATED WAREHOUSE

One of the strengths of MP Filtri’s new headquarters, opened in 2007, is the new automated warehouse which the company built in conjunction with the Jungheinrich Systems Division. This warehouse was designed to make the entire company supply chain more fluid, from raw materials procurement to finished product distribution, and including internal logistics and storage. The aim was to rationalise and optimise the goods flow and, at the same time, to increase the company’s flexibility and reactiveness to the dynamics of a vast and highly segmented market.

The new warehouse has become an important reference point for all logistical activities and has provided added value to the various stages of the production processes. Thanks to the automated warehouse, the filter element assembly department and the filter assembly department are supplied as necessary. In addition, the warehouse is responsible for what comes out of these departments at the end of the processing and prepares it for storage and subsequent distribution. During the goods inward stage, the company communicates with suppliers and its machining workshop in Lurano (BG). Outgoing goods are sent directly or through distributors to customers across the whole world.

When semi-finished products arrive from the Lurano factory, they are placed in a special area where the new warehouse was designed to rationalise and optimise the goods flow and, at the same time, to increase the company’s flexibility and reactiveness to the dynamics of a vast and highly segmented market.

After this stage, each reference is provided with a barcode label and sent, on roller conveyors, in special pallet-mounted containers to one of the four automatic pallet fork-lift trucks that, as instructed by the Warehouse Management System (WMS), will place it in the storage location intended for it.

Based on size and needs, however, instead of the standard process, incoming goods may take different routes and be stored in one of the two Kardex vertical warehouses, sent directly to the line or positioned on the ground in pre-established locations.

However, the internal flow is generated from production and shipment orders.

For production orders, the system associates picking lists of semi-finished products and components to send to the assembly departments for the production of the finished products.

For shipment orders, the system associates picking lists of finished products to send to the packaging and despatch department.

The automated warehouse, which contains components and finished products, as instructed by the WMS, identifies the location, selects the pallet and takes it, on roller conveyors, near to the preparation workstation.

Here the picking staff pick the quantity required, put it in the parcel associated with the work order or shipment order and put the pallet back on the roller conveyor circuit to go back to the racks.

When the picking list is complete and the card with the assembly instructions has been inserted in the case of shipment orders, the pallet is sent on the roller conveyor to the unloading bays where the internal handling staff, through the order picker, pick it and take it to the destination department: the assembly line or despatch area.

When assembly is complete, some finished products are sent to the automated warehouse for temporary storage before being removed, through the shipment lists, and some are sent directly to the despatch department.

MP Filtri - Model UFM 041 - Compact Mobile Transfer and Filtration Unit

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