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Freudenberg is a holding company for multiple autonomous businesses with interests from seals and vibration control components to filters, non-woven textiles, specialty lubricants, cleaning agents, and mechatronic (mechanically and electronically engineered) products. Freudenberg sells to a diverse mix of global OEMs primarily in the automotive industry and to the chemical, construction, energy, engineering, and textile industries. The company is owned by the heirs of its founder, Carl Johann Freudenberg, who in 1849 began what was to become one of the largest and oldest family-owned companies in Germany.