Donaldson Company Honours Inventors and Fosters Innovation Culture
13 May 2025
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CW Team
Donaldson Company, a leading worldwide manufacturer of innovative filtration products and solutions, today celebrated its 2024 patent recipients and Inventor Award winners with a ceremony at its headquarters. Donaldson recognized more than 100 employees for their valuable contributions to a culture of innovation and industry leadership. From alternative power to pharmaceuticals and agriculture to transportation, Donaldson continues to bring new innovations to market that deliver best-in-class solutions to real-world challenges.聽
In 2024, Donaldson registered 392 new patents and currently has a total of 3,260 active US and international patents.聽
The first US patent award to Donaldson Company was granted to founder Frank A Donaldson on February 7, 1922; Patent No. 1,405,399, titled 鈥楢ir Cleaner.鈥� 鈥淥ur origin story starts with a customer problem followed by an innovative solution,鈥� said Dave Mulder, Donaldson chief technology officer. 鈥淓ven now, 11 decades later, we continue to identify problems, understanding that problems lead to ideas, and ideas lead to solutions 鈥� solutions that are advancing filtration for a cleaner world.鈥澛�
The 2024 Inventor Recognition Ceremony honored patent recipients and recognized select employees whose groundbreaking contributions were in five categories: Emerging Innovator, Manufacturing Excellence, Technology Champion, Technology Achievement, and Frank A Donaldson Award. Winners reside in Belgium and the United States.聽
This year鈥檚 Emerging Innovator award recipient was recognized for her leadership in the field of oleophobic materials. Mikayla Yoder pioneered research and development of re-entrant geometries resulting in a new class of patterned membranes that has the potential to revolutionize consumer packaging products.聽
The prize for Manufacturing Excellence went to Jon Haag, a senior engineering manager in advanced manufacturing technology, who engineered the virtual installation of two critical and proprietary production lines from 6,750 miles away during a global pandemic.聽
Ingenuity played a pivotal role for the winner of the Technology Champion award. Gert Willems, an engineering director with 55 granted patents, received this year鈥檚 Technology Champion award for his leadership in developing Clean Seal technology which has seen strong commercial success.聽
Advanced prototyping is the art of bringing life to bold ideas, and transforming sketches and concepts into tangible, high-impact products and remarkably capable, yet elegantly simple prototype product and production equipment. Donaldson granted this year鈥檚 Technology Achievement award to Vincent Kayaerts for developing prototypes that accelerated the launch of Donaldson鈥檚 thermoplastic elastomer seal products and a sustainable liner-less element design.聽
Dan Tuma earned this year鈥檚 Frank A. Donaldson award for his long-term contributions to disk drive filtration technology. Dan, an engineering manager, advanced disk drive filtration technology, including developing products that precisely regulate humidity in enclosed disk drives and filters using activated carbon to remove organic and acid gases in addition to particles.聽
The inventions and advancements recognized at the 2024 Inventor Recognition Ceremony create value, drive innovation, strengthen Donaldson鈥檚 competitive edge, and ultimately shape the filtration industry.聽
Donaldson Company, a leading worldwide manufacturer of innovative filtration products and solutions, today celebrated its 2024 patent recipients and Inventor Award winners with a ceremony at its headquarters. Donaldson recognized more than 100 employees for their valuable contributions to a culture of innovation and industry leadership. From alternative power to pharmaceuticals and agriculture to transportation, Donaldson continues to bring new innovations to market that deliver best-in-class solutions to real-world challenges.聽In 2024, Donaldson registered 392 new patents and currently has a total of 3,260 active US and international patents.聽The first US patent award to Donaldson Company was granted to founder Frank A Donaldson on February 7, 1922; Patent No. 1,405,399, titled 鈥楢ir Cleaner.鈥� 鈥淥ur origin story starts with a customer problem followed by an innovative solution,鈥� said Dave Mulder, Donaldson chief technology officer. 鈥淓ven now, 11 decades later, we continue to identify problems, understanding that problems lead to ideas, and ideas lead to solutions 鈥� solutions that are advancing filtration for a cleaner world.鈥澛燭he 2024 Inventor Recognition Ceremony honored patent recipients and recognized select employees whose groundbreaking contributions were in five categories: Emerging Innovator, Manufacturing Excellence, Technology Champion, Technology Achievement, and Frank A Donaldson Award. Winners reside in Belgium and the United States.聽This year鈥檚 Emerging Innovator award recipient was recognized for her leadership in the field of oleophobic materials. Mikayla Yoder pioneered research and development of re-entrant geometries resulting in a new class of patterned membranes that has the potential to revolutionize consumer packaging products.聽The prize for Manufacturing Excellence went to Jon Haag, a senior engineering manager in advanced manufacturing technology, who engineered the virtual installation of two critical and proprietary production lines from 6,750 miles away during a global pandemic.聽Ingenuity played a pivotal role for the winner of the Technology Champion award. Gert Willems, an engineering director with 55 granted patents, received this year鈥檚 Technology Champion award for his leadership in developing Clean Seal technology which has seen strong commercial success.聽Advanced prototyping is the art of bringing life to bold ideas, and transforming sketches and concepts into tangible, high-impact products and remarkably capable, yet elegantly simple prototype product and production equipment. Donaldson granted this year鈥檚 Technology Achievement award to Vincent Kayaerts for developing prototypes that accelerated the launch of Donaldson鈥檚 thermoplastic elastomer seal products and a sustainable liner-less element design.聽Dan Tuma earned this year鈥檚 Frank A. Donaldson award for his long-term contributions to disk drive filtration technology. Dan, an engineering manager, advanced disk drive filtration technology, including developing products that precisely regulate humidity in enclosed disk drives and filters using activated carbon to remove organic and acid gases in addition to particles.聽The inventions and advancements recognized at the 2024 Inventor Recognition Ceremony create value, drive innovation, strengthen Donaldson鈥檚 competitive edge, and ultimately shape the filtration industry.聽
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