UFI FILTERS SHANGHAI CO. LTD. opened their third and fourth factory in China and the SOFIMA AUTOMOTIVE FILTER CHANGCHUN CO. LTD. was opened.

A new production site was inaugurated in northern Italy in the province of Mantua. Thanks to the constant updating of the most innovative machines, it is still dedicated today to the production of the most advanced filter media. In the same year the commercial expansion continued with the opening of the Wolfsburg office in Germany and the new office in Detroit, in the United States.