MELITTA GROUP
History
| Year | Detail |
|---|---|
| 1908 | Melitta Bentz invented the coffee filter and laid the foundation for the Melitta Group. |
| 1908 | The Imperial Patent Office, based in Berlin, granted Melitta Bentz utility model protection for her invention of the coffee filter. |
| 1971 | Melitta enters the dust filter business by adding vacuum cleaner bags to the product range. |
| 1998 | Melitta has launched filter bags with a significant bamboo content, and the filter paper contains 60% of the rapidly renewable resource. |
| 2018 | The Melitta Group has acquired a majority stake in the office coffee provider Coffee at Work. This acquisition is part of Melitta's strategy to expand its presence in the growing office coffee service (OCS) market. |
| 2022 | Melitta Group established a new recycling company, Vishuddh Recycle Pvt. Ltd., in Bangalore, India. This company is being set up as a social business in partnership with Yunus Social Business and Cofresco, a Melitta Group subsidiary. |
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