Second China campus for Donaldson

As has been previously reported by Sustainable Nonwovens, there has been a huge surge in the demand for bag filters and other filter media made from nonwovens in China.

This follows a change to the country’s emissions laws introduced at the start of this year and of specific significance to China’s vast iron, steel and cement industries, as well as its coal-fired power plants.

With growing demand assured, Donaldson Company will begin work on two new manufacturing plants in Xuzhou, China, to serve the diesel-powered equipment and industrial markets.

Each of the new plants will be 140,000 square feet, with one dedicated to manufacturing air filters and the other liquid filters.

The two new plants, expected to open in 2014, will represent Donaldson’s second manufacturing campus in China with the first first having opend in Wuxi in 1997 and now operating has four manufacturing plants.

“We are very pleased to add these two new plants to our existing manufacturing and distribution base in China and have appreciated the wonderful support of the development zone officials through the planning process,” said Eugene Wu, Donaldson’s president of Asia Pacific. “During the last 15 years we have developed strong relationships with many local original equipment manufacturers and aftermarket customers. As the industrial and diesel-powered equipment markets continue to develop and expand in China, these new plants will allow us to both further increase our air filter manufacturing capacity and establish our first Chinese-based liquid filtration manufacturing capacity to meet projected.”