AHT Cooling Systems
| AHT Cooling Systems GmbH
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1983 |
| Seat |
Rottenmann , Austria
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| management | Martin Krutz (CEO) Koji Takahashi (CFO) |
| Number of employees | over 1,800 (worldwide) |
| sales | € 481 million (2017) |
| Branch | Cooling Systems |
| Website | www.aht.at |
The AHT Cooling Systems GmbH is an Austrian industrial company based in Rottenmann , Styria . The main business areas are refrigerators and freezers for supermarkets, ice cream chests and beverage cooling.
background
The company name AHT originally stands for A ustria H aus t echnik. Austria Haustechnik started on the Vienna Stock Exchange in 1998, was bought by the private equity investor Quadriga Capital for 35 million euros in 2003 and taken off the stock exchange. This financial investor passed AHT Cooling Systems on to the German investor Equita and became the owner for a second time in 2006. Quadriga Capital sounded out a sale of at least 450 million euros in May 2013.
The company's main location is the town of Rottenmann in Upper Styria , with around 1,100 employees. AHT Cooling Systems GmbH has further locations and sales offices in Germany, Great Britain, Spain, Turkey, China, Hong Kong, the USA, Mexico, India and Brazil; The group has around 1,250 employees worldwide. The annual turnover in 2015 was 380 million euros, with the company producing around 200,000 cooling devices at its main location in Rottenmann alone. After the Danish CEO had to cut hundreds of temporary workers by October 2014, he was appointed to the Commercial Council in the same month and thus received the highest award in the Republic of Austria that an entrepreneur can get. In June 2016 Hans Aage Jørgensen was replaced by Thomas Babacan as managing director; the Dane then moved to the supervisory board.
As early as the end of November 2018, press releases reported about the takeover of AHT Cooling Systems by Daikin Europe NV , a subsidiary of the Japanese air conditioning group Daikin Industries , for 881 million euros. After the EU competition authorities approved the takeover in mid-February 2019, there was a subsequent change in management in the company. After CEO Thomas Babacan, who had been with the company since June 2016, resigned in August 2018 and the previous CFO Frank Elsen had also taken on the role of CEO, the new management team was announced at the beginning of March 2019. Martin Krutz, most recently Managing Director of Daikin Airconditioning UK Ltd , has been appointed as the new CEO; Elsen switched to the AHT Group's supervisory board as a consultant. The Japanese Koji Takahashi, at that time still operations manager for strategic projects of the company at Daikin Europe in Belgium, subsequently took over the function of Chief Financial Officer.
Products
The area of refrigerators and freezers for supermarkets essentially comprises plug-in refrigeration and freezer systems and accounts for around 60% of total sales. With a turnover of around 380 million euros in 2015, AHT is the world's leading manufacturer in this segment. The plug-in cooling and freezing systems are used by the German discounters Aldi and Lidl , among others . According to its own statements, AHT was the first manufacturer to bring commercial refrigerators with the environmentally friendly refrigerant propane (R290) onto the world market. Speed control compressors contribute significantly to high energy efficiency.
Web links
- Official website of AHT Cooling Systems
Individual evidence
- ↑ AHT HAS NEW OWNER AS OF 2019 - Japanese Dalkin Group takes over AHT , accessed on March 9, 2019
- ↑ Refrigeration technology company AHT goes to Japanese group for 881 million euros , accessed on March 9, 2019
- ↑ Styrian company available for 450 million euros ( memento from January 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on August 11, 2016
- ↑ a b New managing director at AHT Cooling Systems , accessed on August 11, 2016
- ↑ AHT announces 150 temporary workers , accessed on August 11, 2016
- ↑ "The ship is safely maneuvered" , accessed on August 11, 2016
- ↑ Styrian AHT group is bought by Japanese billionaire company. In: Small newspaper . November 26, 2018. Retrieved November 26, 2018 .
- ↑ a b c d e After taking over | New management level at the Styrian refrigeration specialist AHT , accessed on March 9, 2019
- ↑ Tour at AHT Cooling Systems on erlebniswelt-wirtschaft.at , accessed on August 11, 2016