The Schnarwiler team for Alb Filter in Switzerland
Schnarwiler AG from Weggis on Lake Lucerne is the official retailer of Alb Filter in Switzerland. We don't choose our range based on trends, but on effectiveness, quality and trust – in a market full of promises, we filter out what really matters for you.
We are located at Seestrasse 54 in Weggis. We ship all parcels from there, and you are warmly invited to visit us in person and buy your Alb Filter products directly on site. We're happy to advise you – by phone on +41 41 792 1001 or by email at info@schnarwiler.ch.
The Schnarwiler team
Your contacts for Alb Filter in Switzerland.
Sandra Schnarwiler
Managing Director Finance & Purchasing
Dennis Suter
Commercial Manager Sales & Marketing
Marlen Schnarwiler
Advice & Sales
Monika Kron
Advice & Sales
Angi Schumacher
Advice & Sales
Alb Filter – water filters from the Swabian Alb
Alb Filter stands for innovative drinking water filters made in Germany. The company grew out of the vision of three founders: Benjamin Maywald, Patrick Leichtenstern and Tobias Müller. Two computer scientists and a graduate engineer from southern Germany founded Blaufaktor GmbH & Co. KG with the aim of offering high-performance, high-quality water filters manufactured regionally.
Clean drinking water is becoming increasingly important worldwide. Climate change and population growth are making the problem worse. Even in industrialised nations, the quality of fresh water is deteriorating. Contaminants such as pharmaceutical residues, hormones, pesticides and antibiotics often find their way into tap water and are not fully captured or filtered out by public water treatment.
Since developing our first filter in 2013, we have been continuously improving our filter systems. Alb Filter water filters can easily be installed upstream of or directly on the tap or shower hose. They efficiently reduce pollutants, pathogens, turbidity and unwanted flavours – without any chemicals. Thanks to their modular design, every filter can be adapted to individual needs. Whether at home or on the go in a motorhome, for drinking or showering: Alb Filters provide reliable and sustainable protection. Alb Filters thus offer an attractive alternative to bottled water and reduce plastic waste.
Made in southern Germany stands for durability and reliability.
Water filters from Germany
With the aim of guaranteeing consistently high quality while keeping delivery routes as short as possible, we rely on experienced partners from the region for development and production.
Hand in hand with CNC turning shops, metal finishing workshops, laser engraving and plastics technicians, we manufacture our Alb Filter products in the Swabian Alb for Germany and the whole world.
History of Alb Filter – milestones in innovative drinking water filters
Alb Filter can look back on extensive experience in water filtration. The team has been working intensively on this topic since 2001. The Alb Filter brand was born in 2016 from the vision of fitting highly effective drinking water filters directly to taps.
Blaufaktor GmbH & Co. KG moves to new premises in Zimmern ob Rottweil. Expansion of production and storage capacity to meet growing demand.
Launch of the Entry and Entry S filling adapters for motorhomes and campervans.
Launch of the innovative Flextube filling hose for the camping sector.
- Two patents for the camping sector filed in 2021 were granted.
- The state-funded expansion of our warehouse with production and office space enters the final planning phase. The planning application has been submitted.
- Collaboration with a Heidelberg research institute. A new high-end cartridge is in the final testing phase.
- The hard work and the long wait have paid off: Blaufaktor GmbH receives the EU / L-Bank “Spitze auf dem Land” funding. The planned expansion in the “Inkom” industrial estate near Rottweil is subsidised at 20 %.
- Two new patents for a camping accessory were filed.
- The Active Plus+ was revised and released in October. Due to the low flow rate, the mixture had to be redefined. The Active Plus+ is now even able to reduce limescale or soften water.
- Alb Filter, or rather Blaufaktor GmbH & Co. KG, makes it into the top 20 of the 2020 State Prize of Baden-Württemberg.
- A pre-filter unit named “Protect” is added as a supplementary module to the Alb Filter Element. It is designed to protect downstream cartridges with a sintered pre-filter pad.
- The high demand for coverage of a broad filter spectrum was answered with the release of the Alb Filter Fusion. The Fusion is making a name for itself, above all in the camping industry.
- In future, the housings and end caps of selected filter cartridges will be injection-moulded from bioplastics. This further reduces the use of petroleum-based plastics – an important step towards a future with less plastic waste.
- Blaufaktor GmbH & Co. KG receives the Innovation Award for developing an injection mould in which the end caps and housings of the filter media can be made from bioplastic.
- Alb Filter Duo comes onto the market.
- With the Alb Filter eco cartridge, the company launches its first filter cartridge in autumn whose end caps are made from biopolymers. These are biodegradable in accordance with DIN EN ISO 14855 and EN 13432.
- Alb Filter receives project-related funding from the Ministry of Economic Affairs of the State of Baden-Württemberg for the use of degradable bioplastics in the series production of its product portfolio.
- Connection kits for motorhomes and caravans are offered.
- In cooperation with a renowned filter manufacturer, the Alb Filter Active Plus filter cartridge solution based on Bioton and the Active made from a sintered coconut-based activated carbon block were developed and perfected. The internal surface area of the activated carbon corresponds roughly to the area of a football pitch and therefore offers a very large adsorption area to retain or bind pollutants, germs and bacteria.
- With the help of a sales partner, the first large order is placed for the market launch in Egypt.
- Planning and development of the first water filter developed entirely in Germany. The idea behind it was to attach a filter directly to the end points of taps.
- Manufacture of the prototype filter housing in the Swabian Alb.
- Market launch of today's Alb Filter under a different name. Initially with a filter insert for the shower and drinking water.
Expansion of the business to include osmosis systems, hoses and inline filters. The current range comprises around 300 different filters, housings and small parts.
Start of sales of water filter systems for well and cistern applications.
- Driven by the poor water quality in their student residence, the idea of working on drinking water treatment and water filters came about while the three founders were still at university.
- In addition, Tobias Müller had already been in contact with water filtration technology since 2001 through his physics studies at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). They started their new venture under the name BWF.