Danfoss
| Danfoss A / S
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1933 |
| Seat | Nordborg , Denmark |
| management | Kim Fausing, CEO |
| Number of employees | 26,645 (2017) |
| sales | EUR 5.8 billion (2017) |
| Website | www.danfoss.com |
The Danfoss A / S is a company in the field of heating and cooling technology as well as hydraulic and electric motors based in Nordborg , on the southern Danish island as in the municipality Sønderborg . According to the company's own information, sales in 2017 were 5.8 billion euros. The company has 53 production facilities in 21 countries and employs around 26,645 people worldwide.
history
Danfoss was founded in 1933 by the refrigeration engineer Mads Clausen as "Dansk Køleautomatik- og Apparat-Fabrik" (Danish cooling automatic and apparatus factory). The first product he built under license was expansion valves for refrigeration systems. The company has been known as Danfoss since 1946; it is made up of the word Danmark (Denmark) and the verb fosse (stream).
Mads Clausen's wife Bitten Clausen supported her husband in running the company and after his death was chairman of the board from 1966 to 1971 and deputy chairman until 1988. Her son Jørgen Mads Clausen managed the company as CEO until 2008 .
Probably the best-known Danfoss product is Clausen's invention from the 1950s, the thermostatic radiator valve . However, economic success did not materialize until after the energy crisis in the 1970s.
In 1968 Danfoss was the first series manufacturer of frequency converters . The devices sold by Danfoss Drives under the trademark VLT enable the speed control of three-phase machines . The headquarters of Danfoss Drives are located in Gråsten (Denmark), where devices up to approx. 100 kW are also manufactured. Converters with higher outputs (up to 1.4 MW) are built in Rockford (USA).
Danfoss has greatly expanded its product range since 2003 by taking over other companies such as: B. with the incorporation of several companies active in the field of heat technology.
Danfoss is now owned by the Bitten and Mads Clausen Foundation. The German headquarters of the Danfoss sales company is located in Offenbach am Main in Hesse . Further offices are operated in Hamburg, Essen, Munich and Bruchsal.
With funds from the Danfoss Foundation, the Mads Clausen Institute was set up at the Syddansk Universitet in Sønderborg in 1999 . The institute has been located in the newly built Alsion campus since 2007 and offers the most modern equipment of the university's technical faculty.
In November 2010 the household (refrigerator) compressor program Danfoss Compressors was sold to Aurelius AG , a holding company. The newly created company Secop GmbH immediately began relocating production to Zlaté Moravce in Slovakia. This resulted in massive job cuts at the production sites in Flensburg and in the Slovenian town of Črnomelj . In 2013, the property of the Danfoss compressor plant in the north of Flensburg was taken over by Flensburger Fahrzeugbau . Secop, the successor company to the Danfoss compressor division, remained as a tenant in one of the factories.
With the expansion, there was also shrinkage. The cooling unit production was sold to Aurelius AG in November 2010; In 2014, the inverter division was transferred from Danfoss to SMA Solar Technology AG . In return, Danfoss received a 20 percent minority stake in SMA Solar Technology AG.
In 2020 Danfoss announced that it would take over Eaton Hydraulics from Eaton Corporation for three billion euros and thus become number one in the field of mobile and industrial hydraulics . The takeover would have around 11,000 employees and a turnover of two billion euros (2019). The transaction still requires approval from the authorities.
Products
By far the company's best-known product is the thermostatic valve . In addition, the company also produces geared motors, heat pumps, underfloor heating, ventilation, district heating and hot water systems. Also worth mentioning is Danfoss HPP (formerly Danfoss Nessie ), a high pressure water system for air humidification and adiabatic cooling used for fire fighting, reverse osmosis, industrial cleaning, wood processing and water hydraulics. Danfoss is also active in the manufacture of frequency converters and, together with its subsidiary Danfoss Power Solutions, manufactures hydraulic components.
Trivia
The primate species Microcebus danfossi is named after the company, as the group has taken on the sponsorship of these animals. In 2006, the Danfoss Universe amusement park was opened next to the headquarters .
In 2020 the Foundation opened the Hotel Alsik in Sønderborg.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Annual Report 2017 (PDF; 7 MB)
- ^ Mads Clausen Institute - Innovation without borders - Syddansk Universitet. Retrieved August 16, 2016 .
- ↑ Flensburger Tageblatt : New jobs: FFG buys old Danfoss plant in Flensburg March 9, 2015, accessed March 9, 2015
- ↑ Sunbeam GmbH: Danfoss takeover by SMA - consolidation continues. Retrieved August 16, 2016 .
- ↑ ES Vertrieb und Service GmbH: Air humidification and adiabatic cooling - ES Vertrieb und Service GmbH - powered by Nessie HVAC. In: www.es-engineering.net. Retrieved August 16, 2016 .