Mr. Erhard Charles Andreae, 55 years old, an independent mechanical engineer in the field of surface treatment for 25 years, patents a particle filter for paint booths, collapsible, disposable, made of cardboard and operating on the principle of inertia separation.

The Binks Manufacturing Company, the US and World No. 1 paint booth manufacturer, buys Bullows and is interested in the Andreae filter. Exclusivity is granted to Binks for all of its subsidiaries around the world, which will give Andreae Filters an instant global notoriety as Binks launches worldwide the “Binks-Andreae” spray booth line.

The Binks Manufacturing Company, the US and World No. 1 paint booth manufacturer, buys Bullows and is interested in the Andreae filter. Exclusivity is granted to Binks for all of its subsidiaries around the world, which will give Andreae Filters an instant global notoriety as Binks launches worldwide the “Binks-Andreae” spray booth line.

Mr. Robert Andreae purchases Andreae Filters. The production tool is modernized and improved, the internal organization is restructured to enhance internal cooperation.

R. Andreae founds Andreae Filters Inc. in Ardmore, USA to better serve the US market and forecast the end of the BINKS exclusivity.

USA and Swiss companies are both renamed Andreae Team, Inc. USA and Andreae Team SA, Switzerland.

Andreae Team USA moves to a new bigger building in Ardmore, USA.

As the historic factory of Switzerland becomes too small, production is moved to Poland in bigger facilities. This new location provides Andreae Team with direct and more competitive access to western and eastern European markets.

Acquisition of the historic Binks filter production in Scotland from Carlisle Fluid Technologies with its customer base and the use of the “Binks” brand under licence as far as filters are concerned only.

The US Ardmore plant becomes too small for coming new products, all production lines are moved to Montreal, Canada, into larger premises, closer to major cardboard suppliers, at the gateway to an international port, facilitating access to North and South American markets as well as Asia.