About Us
The grandchildren of company founder Carl Johann Freudenberg - engineer Hans Freudenberg, personnel and finance manager Richard Freudenberg, sales manager Otto Freudenberg and purchasing manager Walter Freudenberg ventured out on a new enterprise strategy.
First, they began by reworking leather residues and then developing substitute materials for leather. For example, from 1929, the company started manufacturing leather seals and from 1936 radial shaft seals with a sealing lip made of "Perbunan" synthetic rubber. The trade name for these radial shaft seals - "Simmerring" - became a technical term in its own right.
Working with Buna S and Buna N synthetic rubber, chemists and engineers at Freudenberg developed synthetic leather and rubber soles and finally floorcoverings and nonwovens, which were originally derived as a further development of the base material for synthetic leather. Nonwovens were soon recognized as universally applicable materials: nonwoven interlinings under the name of "Vlieseline" and household products under the "Vileda" brand have been available since 1948 and, since 1957, nonwovens have been used in a constantly expanding and developing range of filters for industry and the consumer market under the name of "Viledon". Since 1934, seals and molded products have been custom-designed to special dimensions for Freudenbergs customers.
Contact Freudenberg Group North America:
Cheryl Eberwein
47690 East Anchor Court
Plymouth, Mich. 48170-2455
Office: +1 (734) 354-5373
Cell: +1 (248) 767-1068
Fax: +1 (734) 451-0043