Eberspächer (company)
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| legal form | GmbH & Co. KG |
| founding | 1865 |
| Seat | Esslingen am Neckar , Germany |
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| Number of employees | 9,928 (2019) |
| sales | € 4.9 billion (2019) |
| Branch | Automotive supplier |
| Website | www.eberspaecher.com |
The Eberspächer Group , based in Esslingen am Neckar, is an international automotive supplier with 80 locations in 29 countries worldwide. Almost all major car and commercial vehicle (commercial vehicle) manufacturers are among the customers. The company is one of the world's leading system developers and suppliers for exhaust technology , vehicle heating and air conditioning systems. Eberspächer is also involved in vehicle electronics.
history
The company was founded by Jakob Eberspächer in Esslingen am Neckar in 1865 as a workshop for roof glazing and moved to its current location in 1914. In 1917, a factory in Leipzig was added through the takeover of the company . One of the company's first major orders was the glass roof of Milan Central Station , which Eberspächer built in 1929.
In 1932/1933 the production of heaters and silencers was started, the latter together with Friedrich Boysen . In the post-war period, Eberspächer was one of the first companies to manufacture toys. At the time, the range also included metal medical cases and prostheses.
In 1953 the production of silencers for the VW Beetle began . At the beginning of the 1970s, the exhaust gas center was expanded in Neunkirchen , where some products were later developed. Another research and development center was set up in Esslingen in the 1980s.
In 1995 the company presented Hydronic , a modular family of car parking heaters . In 1996, close-coupled catalytic converters went into series production, and in 1999 electrical auxiliary heaters from the subsidiary catem . In 2002 and 2003, the international presence was expanded with a tech center in Detroit , a catalytic converter plant in North America and plants in the Czech Republic , France and China . In 2004, diesel particulate filters went into series production.
In 2007, Eberspächer took over Purem Abgassysteme GmbH & Co. KG , a former Daimler subsidiary based in Unna , and in 2008 retroactively also Herxheim-based catem Holding and its subsidiary DEVELEC, adding to the product range with automotive power electronics .
A new product area was installed in 2008: Eberspächer Electronics GmbH & Co. KG was founded as a subsidiary. Their business field were automotive bus systems - especially FlexRay . The subsidiary was created by taking over the FlexRay tools and services from TZ Mikroelektronik in Göppingen . As part of a strategic realignment of its electronics activities, Eberspächer handed over its 100% subsidiary, Eberspächer Electronics GmbH & Co. KG, based in Göppingen, to the STAR COOPERATION Group in Böblingen on August 1, 2014.
In 2010, Eberspächer took over Sütrak, a manufacturer of bus air conditioning systems, and thus became a full-range supplier for heating and cooling in the bus sector. The company was previously a 100% subsidiary of Carrier Corporation and thus part of United Technologies Corporation .
With Prototechnik GmbH & Co. KG, founded in 2010, the Eberspächer Group expanded its portfolio in exhaust technology. The Schwäbisch Gmünd location became the competence center for lightweight construction and special series production.
In 2011, the Austrian branch, which is located in the industrial center of Lower Austria South , was awarded the title Leitbetriebe Austria . Eberspächer opened its new Asia headquarters in Shanghai in June 2013. In 2014 Eberspächer opened a new production site for vehicle electronics in Landau / Pfalz. In 2016, Eberspächer acquired the PTC production from Paul Rauschert Steinbach GmbH in Hermsdorf (Thuringia) . The site manufactures PTC heating elements for electric vehicle heaters.
With the takeover of the majority in the Canadian company Vecture Inc. in 2016, the joint venture Eberspaecher Vecture Inc. offers battery management systems for industrial applications, medical technology and vehicles.
In 2018, Eberspächer is expanding its ambitions as a thermal management system provider: The Esslingen-based automotive supplier took over 100 percent of the French air conditioning specialist Kalori SAS , based in Lyon, France. Eberspächer Kalori develops and produces air conditioning and ventilation systems for commercial and special vehicles.
Products
Vehicle heaters
- Parking heaters (water and air heaters with 1 to 35 kW output) for cars and commercial vehicles (commercial vehicles), mobile homes, agricultural and construction machinery, water vehicles
- Auxiliary heater for consumption-optimized diesel, gasoline, electric and hybrid vehicles that have too little or no residual heat available for heating.
There is a service / customer service network with 13,000 service partners worldwide for the installation and servicing of parking heaters, 2,200 of them in Germany and around 9,000 in the rest of Europe.
Electric vehicle heaters
The subsidiary Eberspächer catem builds additional electrical air and water heating systems for vehicles. The PTC heaters can be customized and can also be used decentrally in the vehicle, for example as convertible head space heating from the neckrest. The company in Herxheim near Landau / Pfalz produces standard high-voltage heaters (up to 500 V, up to 7 kW) for hybrid, electric or fuel cell vehicles .
Exhaust technology
- Exhaust aftertreatment, silencing and sound design
- Maintenance-free soot particle filters for the automotive industry (new cars)
- Complete exhaust systems as well as individual components such as silencers , catalytic converters , pipes and manifolds for cars and commercial vehicles (on-road / non-road)
- As a system developer / system supplier, Eberspächer supplies car manufacturers “ just in sequence ” (synchronized with final vehicle assembly) also via “on-site assembly plants”.
In 2009 the Sindelfingen location was closed due to the loss of supplies for the Mercedes-Benz E-Class . 54 employees were affected by the closure.
Eberspächer has been producing commercial vehicle exhaust systems in Wilsdruff near Dresden since January 2014 . The new plant is specially tailored to the production of commercial vehicle exhaust systems according to the Euro 6 standard , which has been in force for all commercial vehicles in Europe since January 1, 2014. In Sweden, the company has been developing and producing exhaust systems for heavy and medium-sized commercial vehicles since the end of 2011.
The North American business for commercial vehicle exhaust systems is served from the location in Brighton, which was enlarged in 2016. The European production capacities for car exhaust systems will be expanded in 2016 with a new plant in Romania and the start of construction of a plant in Portugal.
Air conditioning systems
Eberspächer Sütrak develops, produces and sells air conditioning systems for buses with combustion as well as hybrid / electric and fuel cell drives . In addition to the headquarters in Renningen near Stuttgart, the subsidiary has production sites in India and Brazil. In addition, air conditioning systems for special vehicles complement the Eberspaecher portfolio.
Vehicle electronics
The Automotive Controls division offers applications for everything to do with vehicle electronics - for example electronic control units for start-stop systems or for controlling vehicle heating systems . In addition, this business area focuses on the development and production of electronic systems, such as for the intermediate electrical storage of recuperated braking energy. The subsidiary Eberspächer Controls Landau, founded in 2001, deals with complex electronic controls and the switching and distribution of large currents. Eberspächer Controls operates its own production facility in Landau id Pfalz .
Key figures for the 2019 financial year
- Total sales: € 4,965.6 million
- of which foreign share: 78.7%
- Investments: € 149.2 million
- R&D expenses: € 159.7 million
- Total employees: 9,928
Individual evidence
- ↑ Florian Langenscheidt , Bernd Venohr (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German world market leaders. The premier class of German companies in words and pictures . German Standards Editions, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-86936-221-2 .
- ↑ history tzm.de; Retrieved April 29, 2013
- ↑ Eberspächer Electronics part of the STAR COOPERATION group, press release, September 25, 2014
- ↑ Eberspächer takes over Sütrak. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Press release, April 1, 2010; Retrieved April 29, 2013
- ↑ Eberspächer takes over Ricardo Prototechnik. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Press release, July 28, 2010; Retrieved April 29, 2013
- ↑ Company profile of Eberspächer GmbH. ( Memento of the original from October 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Leading companies in Lower Austria, accessed on February 28, 2012
- ↑ Eberspächer opens new Asia headquarters. Press release, June 3, 2013
- ↑ Eberspächer Controls inaugurates production in Landau. ( Memento from February 3, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Article from Automobil Produktion, December 3, 2014
- ↑ Eberspächer acquires PTC production from Rauschert. Article from autosieger.de, July 5, 2016
- ↑ Eberspächer buys Vecture articles from production online, October 4, 2016
- ↑ Eberspächer takes over vehicle air conditioning specialist Kalori Artikel from Automobil Industrie, November 6, 2018
- ↑ E-mobility is an opportunity for us Interview Stuttgarter Zeitung, December 19, 2016
- ^ Susanne Preuss: Eberspächer auto supplier. Wildwest in Sindelfingen faz.net from April 8, 2009; Retrieved April 29, 2013
- ↑ Eberspächer starts production in the new factory in Dresden. ( Memento of the original from June 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Press release, May 8, 2014
- ↑ German exhaust technology specialist becomes majority shareholder at Swenox ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Press release, November 10, 2011; Retrieved April 20, 2013
- ↑ Eberspaecher expands Michigan exhaust plans article Automotive News, October 4, 2016
- ↑ Exhaust technology: Eberspächer opens plant in Romania Article Technology and Purchasing, October 7, 2016
- ↑ Eberspächer builds exhaust technology plant in Portugal Article Automobile Production, September 26, 2016
- ↑ Eberspächer Sütrak expands activities in Brazil Article Aftermarket Update, June 21, 2016
- ↑ Eberspächer annual report 2019
