FAST FORWARD

FAST FORWARD is about everything that moves society and drives us as a company. And indeed, much of this is related to our core competence: filtration. Here you will find some selected articles from the print magazine.

Batteries Charging the Revolution

Monday, March 5, 2018, 9:45 a.m. At the head office of the international filtration specialists MANN+HUMMEL in Ludwigsburg, Dr. Michael Harenbrock, Senior Expert E-Mobility, is waiting for his taxi. He’s on his way to a conference taking place over the next few days in Berlin. A black car drives up to the building. The taxi company’s yellow logo stretches across the front and back doors. Christoph Lehmler, a taxi driver in Ludwigsburg for the past seven years, gives Harenbrock a friendly hello.

The (Waste)Water Cycle

Most likely, not many people have heard of the village of Hünxe in North Rhine-Westphalia. Some 15,000 people live here. And in 2016, precisely 141,437 cubic meters of water were purified for them. This major task falls to the operators of the local sewage treatment plant. Day in, day out, an MBR plant quietly and reliably works to ensure municipal wastewater treatment. MBR stands for membrane bioreactor, a combination of biological wastewater treatment and membrane filtration. Wherever a high level of purification or a small footprint is required, this method is the choice preferred by sewage plant operators. At the Hünxe site, the MBR plant has been running since November 2009.

Something in the air

The Hindustan Times issued a gloomy forecast in early 2018, leading with a story that deaths linked to air pollution are expected to triple by 2050. And they know what they’re talking about in India. According to the World Health

Organization (WHO), the capital city of New Delhi topped the 2015 list of cities with the highest levels of air pollution on earth. All over the world, the situation is particularly critical in megacities such as Mexico City, Cairo, or Seoul. Nitrogen oxides, carbon dioxide, and ozone are all a source of air pollution, but particulate matter (PM) is especially harmful to human health. How dangerous is it really? Where does it come from? And what can we do about particle pollution?

How Change is Changing

Even change changes – a brief nod to the past, a look at the present, and a long, fixed stare at “change” and the “new economy”. Martin Claßen is a business and political science graduate, consultant, author, and freelance editor-in-chief of changement!, the specialist magazine for change manage-ment published by Handelsblatt. To him, change means adding value and respect – so that the objectives of a business are achieved, while leaving behind an impression of reputability.

Whether it’s going by bike, clearing trash from the streets, or breathing fresh air in a green oasis set in the midst of the concrete jungle – a clean city can mean many different things, and there are numerous projects that are working to achieve them. We asked you to capture your impressions of a “clean city”. Your contributions show that it’s often the supposedly minor things on your doorstep that can have a great effect.