Name

Menardi Filter Elements

Legal name

Menardi Filters

Website

https://menardifilters.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1913

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Industrial Filtration Manufacturing

NAICS

Industrial and Commercial Fan and Blower and Air Purification Equipment Manufacturing (333413)

SIC

Industrial & Commercial Fans & Blowers & Air Purifing Equip (3564)

akta.pro primary industry

Dust Collection & Air Filtration Equipment (Industrial) (IMAHALAF)

Keywords

• Industrial filtration products
• Baghouse filter bags
• Cartridge dust collectors
• Liquid filtration media
• EPTFE membrane filters

Headquarters

HQ city

Trenton

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Industrial Filter Elements (Dry Filtration): Sale of baghouse filter bags including pulse jet, reverse air, shaker, pleated elements, and specialty bags across a wide range of filter media and finishes. Core revenue stream with custom manufacturing to customer specifications.
2. Cartridge Filters: Sale of high-efficiency cartridge filters for industrial dust collectors compatible with all major OEM brands. Newer product line launched to address cartridge-style dust collector market.
3. Liquid Pressure Filtration Products: Sale of candle filters, centrifuge cloths, filter press cloths, vertical belt press cloths, and pressure leaf covers for liquid-solid separation in industrial processes.
4. Liquid Vacuum Filtration Products: Sale of vacuum filter media for horizontal pan filters, rotary drum filters, and vertical disc filters used in continuous liquid-solid separation applications.
5. Baghouse Accessories and Components: Sale of filter media, cages, door seals, gaskets, venturis, clamps, blowpipes, precoat powder, leak detection systems, tensioning devices, pressure gauges, diaphragm valves, solenoid valves, sequential controllers, and acoustic horns.
6. Technical Services (Inspections, Audits, Training): Baghouse inspections and audits, onsite Baghouse 101 training, Total Cost of Ownership calculations, and technical consulting to optimize filtration performance. Supports hardware sales with consultative services.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Menardi manufactures and sells custom-engineered industrial filtration products, including baghouse filter bags (pulse jet, reverse air, shaker, pleated, transfer vent), cartridge filters for industrial dust collectors, and liquid filtration media (candle filters, centrifuge cloths, filter press cloths, horizontal pan filters, rotary drum filters, vertical disc filters). The company also supplies baghouse accessories (cages, leak detection systems, pre-coat agents) and provides technical services such as baghouse inspections, audits, training, and Total Cost of Ownership analysis.

Product overview

Menardi Filter Elements is a manufacturer of industrial filtration solutions providing both dry and liquid filtration products. The core product portfolio includes baghouse filtration products (pleated bags, pulse jet bags, reverse air bags, shaker bags, transfer vent bags, and specialty bags), cartridge filters for industrial dust collectors, and liquid filtration systems (candle filters, centrifuge cloths, filter press cloths, vertical belt press cloths, horizontal pan filters, rotary drum filters, and vertical disc filters). Supporting products include filter media technologies such as Menardi-HPF, Menardi-HFM (High Flow Membrane), and Menardi-LD/Mikrotex PTFE membrane. The company also offers accessories (dust collector cages, leak detection systems, pre-coat agents) and services (baghouse inspections/audits, Baghouse 101 training, and Total Cost of Ownership calculator). Menardi operates as a solutions manufacturer with U.S.-based manufacturing and technical support, serving industries including cement, chemical, mining, metals, pulp/paper, and asphalt.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Menardi-HPF: Hydro-entangled filter media technology combining needle loom fiber entangling with hydro-entangling technology for improved dust collection performance.
• Menardi-HFM (High Flow Membrane)
• Menardi-HPFX

Products and services

• Pulse Jet Filter Bags High-performance filter bags designed for pulse jet dust collection systems, available in multiple media types and finishes for high-load environments with demanding duty cycles. Used in industrial baghouse dust collection across cement, steel, chemical, and other process industries.
• Reverse Air Bags Durable filtration solutions for reverse air baghouse systems and continuous-process applications, designed for legacy systems and specialty applications requiring mechanical cleaning via reverse air flow.
• Pleated Bags & Filters Pleated filter elements designed to increase surface area and reduce changeouts in baghouse systems, improving airflow and efficiency in compact or retrofit installations.
• Shaker Bags Filter bags designed for shaker baghouse systems, providing reliable filtration for continuous-duty applications with mechanical cleaning mechanisms.
• Transfer Vent Bags (Truck Socks) Vent-mounted collection bags used during pneumatic transfer to capture sand and bulk materials while allowing air to vent safely. Also known as truck socks, blowdown bags, dust socks, zipper socks, and tank vent bags. Used in frac sand, aggregate, cement transfer, bulk pneumatic trucks, rail transload terminals, and material storage silos.
• Menardi Cartridge Filters High-efficiency cartridge filters engineered for industrial dust collectors, designed to fit all major brands of cartridge-style dust collectors to maximize airflow and improve air quality. Direct replacements for OEM filters with high-efficiency media options and custom-engineered solutions.
• Candle Filters Filter elements for candle filter applications, including filters with PTFE membrane for exceptional efficiency. Used in batch cycles for titanium dioxide, flue gas, brine clarification, and other applications requiring efficient low moisture cake filtration.
• Centrifuge Cloths Centrifuge filter cloths manufactured to retro-fit all standard designs, available in many styles with cord and Velcro ends and various backing cloth choices for clarification, classification, and dewatering applications.
• Filter Press Cloths Press cloths including drape-over, CGR, and cloths with connecting sleeves for plate and frame, recessed chamber, and membrane chamber squeeze type presses. All cloths are laser cut for precision.
• Vertical Belt Press Cloths Filter cloths for vertical belt press filtration systems, offering ease of maintenance and efficient dewatering cake performance for liquid-solid separation applications.
• Horizontal Pan Filters Vacuum filtration solutions ideal for high-capacity dewatering and counter-current washing of granular and fibrous materials, providing continuous operation with low installation costs.
• Rotary Drum Filters (RVDF) Continuous rotary vacuum drum filtration systems where vacuum pressure draws liquid through filter media, forming filter cake discharged by scraper, roll, or belt system.
• Vertical Disc Filters Heavy-duty dewatering filters with multiple stacked filter discs rotating through slurry for high-solids content applications requiring effective solid-liquid separation.
• Dust Collector Cages Wire cages for dust collectors, available in various materials (carbon steel, epoxy coated) and designs to fit existing collectors from most baghouse manufacturers.
• Detect-A-Leak Leak Detection System Non-hazardous fluorescent leak tracer system that reveals process air leaks quickly and reliably using UV light technology, available in multiple colors for different industries, used to identify filter bag failures, seal leaks, and tubesheet cracks.
• Opti-Coat Pre-Coat Agent One-step conditioning agent that protects filter bags by sealing out moisture, oil, and contaminants to eliminate poor filtration problems during startup, injected into baghouse inlet ducts to establish a protective dustcake layer on new filter bags.
• Menardi-HPF (High Performance Fabric) Advanced filter media combining needle loom fiber entangling with hydro-entangling technology, delivering four times cleaner air than traditional needlefelt and up to 36% longer life in MIT Flex Tests. Used in dust collection applications.
• Menardi-HFM (High Flow Membrane) Heaviest and toughest ePTFE membrane designed for minimal dust cake, preventing contamination during long-term use even under high peak usage conditions. Reduces energy consumption and extends run-times between back-pulses, ideal for high differential pressure applications in cement and metal processing.
• Menardi-LD / Mikrotex PTFE Membrane ePTFE membrane filter media with excellent cake release characteristics, consistent delta-P after cleaning cycles, higher throughput, and longer service life compared to conventional membrane options. Designed to reduce energy consumption from compressed air back-pulse cycles and extend bag life with minimal dust cake contamination.
• Baghouse Inspections and Audits Comprehensive examinations of baghouse conditions with detailed reports on flexible schedules (monthly, quarterly, semi-annual, or annually), providing proactive maintenance identification and expert recommendations to optimize filtration performance.
• Baghouse 101 Training Personalized onsite training sessions for maintenance crews and operations teams to enhance equipment operation and optimize baghouse performance.
• Total Cost of Ownership Calculator Analysis tool utilizing facility data to deliver comprehensive assessment of baghouse operational costs, providing customized strategies to minimize expenses and maximize efficiency through media selection, fan and compressed air power consumption, bag cleaning systems, air-to-cloth ratio, and filter aid usage analysis.

Quantifiable outcome

• Extended filter bag service life up to 2+ years in demanding chemical environments (compared to 3-4 months with previous media), reducing changeout frequency and associated downtime costs
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers8 records

Segments7 records

Ideal customer profiles6 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature9 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Nederman GroupcoreOthersMenardi Filters is a subsidiary of Nederman Group, a global industrial air filtration and environmental technology company. The Nederman Group includes related filtration companies including Nederman Mikropul, Nederman Pnuemafil, Auburn FilterSense, Gasmet, LCI, Luwa, Neo Monitors, Nordfab, and RoboVent. Menardi operates as a separate branded entity within the Nederman family.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Sefar Group: Sefar is a Swiss manufacturer of precision woven and synthetic filter media used in industrial filtration, including dust collection and liquid/solid separation. It is a direct comparable in high-performance filter fabrics.
• Filtration Group: Filtration Group is a private-equity-backed roll-up of industrial filtration brands producing air, liquid, and process filters. It competes with Menardi in industrial dust collection and process filtration.
• Donaldson Company: Donaldson is the largest US-based industrial filtration manufacturer, offering baghouse filter bags, cartridge filters, and dust collection systems. It directly competes with Menardi across nearly every end market and product line, and is the most relevant scale benchmark.
• Nederman Mikropul: Nederman Mikropul is a sister company within the Nederman Group that designs and supplies industrial dust collectors and filtration systems. It is the closest internal comparable to Menardi and competes for the same baghouse end customers.
• BWF Group: BWF Group is a Germany-based global manufacturer of industrial filter media and filter bags for dust collection and liquid filtration. It competes head-to-head with Menardi in needlefelt, woven, and membrane media used in baghouse applications.

Broad incumbents

• Parker Hannifin (Filtration Division): Parker's filtration division manufactures industrial cartridge and bag filters, dust collectors, and air filtration systems. It overlaps with Menardi in dust collection cartridges and aftermarket consumables but as part of a much broader industrial portfolio.
• AAF (American Air Filter): AAF is a long-established global manufacturer of air filtration products including baghouse filters, cartridge collectors, and HEPA/industrial air systems. It competes with Menardi in dust collection and clean-air solutions for heavy industry.
• Eaton (Filtration Division): Eaton's filtration division supplies industrial liquid and air filtration products, including bag and cartridge filters for process and dust collection applications. It competes with Menardi in liquid filtration (candle, press cloths) and dust collection consumables.

Emerging players

• ClearEdge Filtration: ClearEdge (formerly GTC Technology's filtration business) supplies specialty filter media and elements for industrial and process filtration. It is comparable to Menardi in liquid/solid separation media technology and custom-engineered solutions.
• RoboVent: RoboVent, another Nederman sister company, specializes in dust collection and air filtration systems for metalworking and welding. It overlaps with Menardi in industrial dust control but with a narrower, more application-focused footprint.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles9 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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