Freudenberg Sealing Technologies with a turnover of about 2,000 (€ million) has approximately 17,000 Employees around the world, with manufacturing facilities in Europe, North and South America, China and India. The corporation is the biggest subgroup of the Freudenberg Group with a turnover of 6,600 (€ million). The family-owned company, founded in 1849, is now jointly owned by about 320 descendants of the founder Carl Johann Freudenberg.