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Melitta () is a German company selling
coffee Coffee is a beverage brewed from roasted, ground coffee beans. Darkly colored, bitter, and slightly acidic, coffee has a stimulating effect on humans, primarily due to its caffeine content, but decaffeinated coffee is also commercially a ...
, paper
coffee filter Coffee is a beverage brewed from roasted, ground coffee beans. Darkly colored, bitter, and slightly acidic, coffee has a stimulating effect on humans, primarily due to its caffeine content, but decaffeinated coffee is also commercially av ...
s, and coffee makers, part of the Melitta Group, which has branches in other countries. The company is headquartered in
Minden Minden () is a middle-sized town in the very north-east of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, the largest town in population between Bielefeld and Hanover. It is the capital of the district () of Minden-Lübbecke, situated in the cultural region ...
,
North Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia or North-Rhine/Westphalia, commonly shortened to NRW, is a States of Germany, state () in Old states of Germany, Western Germany. With more than 18 million inhabitants, it is the List of German states by population, most ...
. It is named after
Melitta Bentz Amalie Auguste Melitta Bentz (née Liebscher, January 31, 1873 – June 29, 1950) was a German inventor and entrepreneur known for revolutionizing the process of coffee brewing with her invention of the coffee filter. Her company, Melitta, ha ...
(1873–1950) who founded the company after she invented the
drip brew Drip coffee is made by pouring hot water onto ground coffee beans, allowing it to brew while seeping through. There are several methods for doing this, including using a filter. Terms used for the resulting coffee often reflect the method ...
paper coffee filter (German patent granted 8 July 1908). Bentz later ran the company as a
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.


History

In 1908, Melitta Bentz, a 35-year-old woman from
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, Germany, invented the first coffee filter, receiving a patent registration for her "Filter Top Device lined with Filter Paper" from the Patent Office in Berlin on 8 July. She founded the company bearing her name the same year. In the 1930s, Melitta revised the original filter, tapering it into the shape of a cone and adding ribs. This created a larger filtration area, allowing for improved extraction of the ground coffee. In 1936, the widely recognized cone-shaped filter paper that fit inside the tapered filter top was introduced. The '102' became the most popular. During
World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...
, Melitta paused production of coffee filters to work with the
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to produce military supplies as part of a "National Socialist model plant." Between 1941 and 1945, the Concordia Porzellanfabrik was used by Melitta. In 1951/1952 and 1957/1958, the Porta-Keramikwerke J. Brauers in Barkhausen at Porta Westfalica, Germany produced ceramic filters for Melitta. once also produced porcelain filters for Melitta. The Porzellanfabrik Friesland, founded in 1953 as part of the German Melitta group, and independent since 1991/1995, produced Melitta porcelain filters up to 2018. Since then, they continue to sell these filters under their own Friesland label, whereas Melitta itself switched to produce these filters in China. Melitta continued to develop new techniques to improve the shape, performance, material and production process of its filter systems. In 1989, Natural Brown coffee filters made from unbleached pulp were introduced, which kept unwanted by-products from leaching into the environment. In 1992 Melitta developed an oxygen-bleaching process to produce white paper without chlorine. In 1996, the
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Group established the
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factory as a joint venture with Melitta, which became fully owned by Miele in 2009. In 1997, Melitta developed a filter with Flavor Pores, microfine perforations that filter out unwanted sediment, particles and oils. In 2002 Melitta added a second safety crimp to increase strength and durability. In 2007 bamboo Filters were introduced and the Flavor Pores filter was improved. Melitta Group KG employed 3,300 people. In the 2019 financial year, the group's turnover increased by 10 percent to almost 1.7 billion euros. The number of employees grew to 5654. In April 2020, Melitta announced that the company would be manufacturing nose and face masks as part of the
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pandemic. The masks consist of a three-layer fleece and are produced worldwide. Melitta donates the first million masks to healthcare facilities.


Melitta USA

Melitta USA, headquartered in
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, is part of the privately held Melitta Group of Minden, Germany. Melitta USA is responsible for the
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and
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of Melitta coffee filters, coffee, and non electric coffee systems in the USA. Melitta USA's coffee filters are manufactured in Clearwater, Florida, and the company has a
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operation in
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. The company Web site said in 2018 that it had been roasting coffee in Cherry Hill for more than 50 years.


See also

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Easy Serving Espresso Pod The Easy Serving Espresso pod (E.S.E. pod), is a small packed coffee pod with a Coffee filter, paper filter covering for use in a non-grinding espresso machine. The E.S.E. standard was created by Italian Illy in the 1970s and is maintained by the ...
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Flavia Beverage Systems Flavia is a hot beverage system, released on March 8, 2005. The system prepares single servings of coffee, tea, and hot chocolate drinks. The brand was owned by Mars Drinks, a division of Mars, Incorporated until October 1, 2018, when Lavazza pur ...
* * Utah teapot, a 3D graphics computer model of a modern Melitta teapot used in graphics research and testing


References


Further reading

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External links


Homepage of Melitta, Germany
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