Our History

Porvair Filtration Group is a wholly owned subsidiary of Porvair plc, a specialist filtration and environmental technology group involved in developing, designing and manufacturing filtration and separation solutions to industry sectors such as the aviation, molten metal, energy, water treatment and life sciences markets. Porvair plc is a small publically owned company with four principal subsidaries: Porvair Filtration Group Ltd., Porvair Sciences Ltd., Selee Corporation and Seal Analytical Ltd.

Porvair Filtration Group has grown organically and through acquisition and incorporation of a number of specialist filtration and engineering companies. Each of these companies brought specific capability and technology to broaden our offering to customers or improve our value proposition. A number of these acquisitions have grown up to form our UK operating divisions located in Segenworth, New Milton, Wrexham and our Porvair Filtration Group Inc. operation in Virginia, USA.

Company history

Microfiltrex was formed in 1974 and provided precision filtration technology to the Aerospace and Defence, Industrial, Process, Nuclear, Polymer and Powder Handling industries. Microfiltrex was acquired in 1982 by the Fairey Group, a company founded in 1915 as the Fairey Aviation Co. Limited, and in 1992 Fairey Microfiltrex relocated to bases in the UK and the USA. The business was purchased by Porvair plc in 2001. Today the Microfiltrex division provides high quality design and manufacture to the stringent demands of the Aerospace and Nuclear industries. The division is based at our new facility in the south of England alongside the Porvair Filtration Group head office. Filters for Industry Ltd (or 2Fi as it came to be known) was established in 1989, specialising in the design and manufacture of high technology filters for customers in the printing, mining, petrochemical, polymer and general process industries. It was purchased by Porvair plc in 2001 and has become the manufacturing hub for general industrial filtration within Porvair Filtration Group. Accumatic was acquired in 1992 to increase Porvair’s sintered porous material capability. By acquiring Accumatic, which produced sintered porous metals, Porvair could now manufacture in both metals and plastics. This resulted in the formation of Porvair Technology Ltd (Wrexham, Wales UK), a world leader in sintered porous materials production. MF&T, originally registered as Filtration and Transfer, was founded in 1963 and it focussed on supplying filters to the natural gas, offshore and process industries. The business specialised in filtration systems and heat exchangers and it was procured by Meggitt in 1983 as part of their energy division. MF&T (Meggitt Filtration and Transfer) operated as part of Meggitt for ten years prior to its acquisition by Filters for Industry in 1993. 2007 saw the procurement of Omnifilter and Manufacturing Inc in Virginia, USA. The business brings manufacturing capability and proprietary technology in multi-layered sintered mesh materials. Renamed Porvair Filtration Group Inc. in 2008, it serves as a local hub for all US business to Porvair Filtration Group.