Neenah Gessner

Paper production under the name Gessner can look back on a long history: As early as 1845, the first filter paper mill in Germany bears this name. In 1955, filter media for the automotive industry are produced for the first time at the Bruckmühl paper mill. A few years later, further paper machines are built for this purpose in neighbouring Feldkirchen-Westerham, which are soon supplemented by impregnation plants. The special know-how surrounding the impregnation process, both on a methanolic and on an aqueous basis, makes Gessner a leading manufacturer of special papers. In 1998, the company and its two sites are taken over by the American Fiber Mark Group. In 2006 the ownership changes to Neenah, and since 2023 the new owner is Mativ.

The Feldkirchen-Westerham site produces filter media for the automotive industry and industrial filtration, as well as other materials. The machinery equipment includes two inclined wire paper machines, three impregnation lines (Ex lines), three meltblown lines, one laminating line, one nanofibre line and six winders.
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