History

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2025	In December, Kenfilt S.L. and Keno Europa S.L. were liquidated, and all their technical and commercial files, patents, and the registered trademark KENFILT were acquired by the newly created company KENFILT IBÉRICA 1.3 S.L. The Lleal family is no longer involved in any financial or executive matters with the new company. By the end of 2025, we can confirm that our filtration systems and equipment will be operating successfully in 37 countries across 5 continents. The average export share has been 80-90% of our total revenue. FUTURE PRODUCTS WILL CONTINUE TO BE BASED ON THE EXCELLENT DESIGN AND QUALITY OF THE PAST.
2021	Industry 4.0 for Kenfilt equipment. All our teams have the option of applying Industry 4.0 in consumables as well as the control of the installation. Improving its efficiency and reducing the costs of use and maintenance. New sensors applied to filtration to obtain data in real time. Information accessible at the plant or remotely on the type and shape of particles that the plant is processing to make the pertinent changes in production to improve the efficiency of the productive machines connected to the plant.
2020	Poland: Design and manufacture of a new filterless media system for European bearing manufacturer for its R&D department with an emulsion flow rate of 1,100 l/min.
2012	During our long history, the company policy has been to design and manufacture with our own facilities and means our filtration systems. Due to circumstances we have been subcontracting for the last two years. Following company policy, during the month of July we have moved to a new factory, where we have offices as well as manufacturing space to satisfy our needs. We hope that from now on we will continue to grow as we did last year.
2011	WE GIVE CONTINUTIY TO KENFILT EUROPA We manufacture small systems as well as two central systems
2010	EXPORT: The last 6 years the export quota reached almost 90% of invoced. But this did not avoid the decline in orders for the last months of 2009 through July of 2010. During this period the orders were reduced by 80% The long world crisis in investments for auxiliary equipment in the metalurgic industry, afects us greatly. During the month of July we are forced to close our factory at Sta. Perpetua de Mogoda. At the same time the daughters of Mr. Jaume Lleal decide to continue with the business and create two societies to give assistance to more than 3.000 systems that we have working satisfactoraly in more than 37 countries in the 5 continents. KENFILT EUROPA, S.L. does the study, design and manufacture of central filtration systems as well as individual systems. KENO EUROPA, S.L. supplies all the spare parts to all of our more than 1.000 customers that might need any part for their Kenfilt or Novotecnic system ¡¡ ALLWAYS WITH ORIGINAL SPARE PARTS!!
2005	FRANCE. For a manufacturer of gearboxes, we design and build a “turnkey” project, a large central filtration of cutting oil used in machining aluminum gearboxes. It is a complete system with two TADE 20 DA 70 hydraulic depression filters with a pre-dredging to separate the aluminium swarf. It also includes a precoat filter to filter part of the flow and a police filter to ensure a maximum particle size. Flow rate: 25,000 l/min - Total capacity: 160m3 Total capacity: 160 m3
2004	All the employees of Kenfilt make a tribute for the 40 years of entrepreneur, to Jaume Lleal. Delivering a watercolor that represents important moments of the professional and personal career of his life. The company organizes a dinner in a restaurant in the Barcelona area.
2002	KENFILT: We Register trademark KENFILT and new logo, to renew the name and image of the company.
2000	FACTORY EXPANSION: A great expansion of the factory is performed, we now have 6.600m2, to give the best service to our customers.
1997	UNITED KINGDOM: NOVOTECNIC Is invited to participate as a speaker at the conference seminar “ADVANCES IN GRINDING TECHNOLOGIES” in Bristol. Our engineers gave a lecture on proper filtration for grinding.
1996	GERMANY: Project with the University of Aachen. The contribution of Novotecnic was the design and supply of precoat filtration equipment FTD 8 AD TA flow: 320 l / min for cutting oil to assemble a special grinding machine, developed by the Italian firm Tachella Machine. The objective was to reach cutting speeds with CBN grinding wheel, up to 220 m/sec.
1993	GERMANY: Participation at the University of Kaiserslautern in Germany-project COMPOMENTS grinding of high-performance ceramics. Our contribution was a precoat filter type FTD 6 AD DO, flow: 200 l / min.
1991	Japan: Novotecnic designs, manufactures and assembles a group of central precoat systems. It is for a client that produces male threading, a total of 8 plants type 2FTD 75 DA 67 were delivered. Total flow rate: 36,000 l / min. Capacity: 560 m3.
	In the spring, the new factory is inaugurated. Our company presents an "Olive tree" of more than 250 years. Its weight was more than 1.5 Tn and is air transported from Catalonia.
1990	TADE: Design and manufacture the first hydraulic vacuum central filtration system.
1989	SWITZERLAND: Design and manufacture two central precoat systems, an FTD 60 DA 100 and an FTD 40 AD TA with a total flow of 5.000 l/min of cutting oil for a manufacturer of male taps. UNITED KINGDOM: Precoat filtration plant with 3 FTD 60 filters and a 100m3 dredged tank for the new cutting tool factory of SKF in Sheffield. Total flow rate 7,500 l/min of cutting oil.
1988	NEW FACTORY: A great achievement. Moved to the new factory of 3,800 m2 built in Sta. Perpetual Moguda. JAPAN: Mr. Lleal, after several trips, signs a contract for an agent in Tokyo. Begin sales in this important market.
1984	FORD: Design and manufacture for one of its factories, 7 FIDE centrals systems with pneumatic depression.
1981	Design and manufacture the first central system type FTD 35 precoat system for cutting oil in a factory that produces male taps. Total flow 1.600 l/min. GM - Saginaw:Design and manufacture the first central precoat filtration system type FTD 40 DA 35 for a line of grinding cv joints incorporating new sludge drying system with compressed air CALL 400 (patented).
1979	ITALY: Novotecnic shows filters on the 3rd. EMO in Milan. First export sale. A German company that manufacturers honing machines purchases the first precoat filter. For a few years the company purchases many more of different capacities.
1977	Designs and builds the first major central system based in hydrocyclones, with a flow of 6,000 l/min, and a capacity of 70m3 of emulsion for a factory that manufacturers refrigeration compressors.
1970	Create the brand NOVOTECNIC wich introduces into the field of liquid filtration used in the metallurgical industry. First, as an agent of a foreign firm.
1965	Mr. Lleal decided to start manufacturing products themselves, far from the current production, but always thinking about exporting.
1964	The month of May, Mr. Jaume Lleal, 24 years old, was established as Entrepreneur, a workshop was located in the city of his birth, Badalona. This decision followed the same path of many of his ancestors, as for almost 150 years (1874), each generation of the family has new Lleal entrepreneurs, especially in the metallurgical and ceramics industries.