Research and Development
M+H employs approximately 700 people in R&D, with expenditure in these areas amounting to around 4% of total sales. It has filed 3,200 patents or patent applications. In addition to purely technical criteria, social trends as well as ecological and economic parameters are taken into account. M+H regularly assigns external partners such as, for example, the Max-Planck and Fraunhofer Institutes, to carry out studies to evaluate these factors.
In the field of bio-fuels too, the company is constantly seeking new solutions: the M+H experts are, for example, investigating their long-term behaviour in special testing laboratories, in order to adapt and improve filter media and component materials, as bio-fuels are introduced worldwide.
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