GEA Bock
| GEA Bock GmbH | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1932 |
| Seat | Frickenhausen , Germany |
| management | Ansgar Hoffmann, Michael Deyle |
| Number of employees | 230 |
| Branch | Mechanical engineering, refrigeration / air conditioning technology |
| Website | www.bock.de |
The GEA Bock GmbH is a company of the GEA Group , the compressors and filters for stationary and mobile refrigeration and air conditioning manufacturing. The products are only used in commercial and industrial environments.
history
Wilhelm Bock and Hans Göldner founded their company in Stuttgart in 1932 . The original business idea was to install and repair refrigeration systems. In 1937 the company moved to a larger factory building in Nürtingen and began to produce itself.
In 1938, Hans Göldner left the company and Hugo Bock joined as a partner, making the company Bock & Co. KG. In 1939 Erich Etter, Wilhelm Bock's brother-in-law, joined the company. In 1955, Bock had a new production branch built in Frickenhausen , which was continuously enlarged in several construction phases. Finally, in the 1990s, a new administration and testing department was built in Frickenhausen and the Nürtingen location was given up. Frickenhausen thus became the company's headquarters.
Since the 1960s, the company has been one of the pioneers in car air conditioning and developed and built the first car air conditioning systems "Made in Germany", which were not only installed in luxury cars, but also the VW Beetle with a Bock air conditioning system be equipped.
In 1986 there was a generation change in the company management and Wolfgang Etter (son of Erich Etter) took over the technical management, Heinrich Reuss (son-in-law of Wilhelm Bock) was appointed commercial manager.
In December 2009, the company was awarded the BMU award "Climate Protection with Refrigeration" from the German Federal Environment Minister Norbert Röttgen for its EFC (Electronic Frequency Control System) system.
Since March 31, 2011, the company has been part of the Refrigeration Technologies segment of the GEA Group and was renamed GEA Bock GmbH. GEA Refrigeration Technologies is the global market leader for industrial refrigeration systems and specializes in the development, construction, installation and maintenance of key components and technical solutions. Applications include cooling processes for the food and beverage industry, shipping, oil / gas industry, building technology and leisure facilities such as indoor ski resorts and ice skating centers. In 2014 the Düsseldorf group announced the "Fit for 2020" program. The group integrated the previous segments and is now organized into two business areas (Equipment & Solutions).
Products
Mobile compressors are mainly manufactured for the air conditioning of buses . In this market segment, as a system-independent manufacturer of air conditioning compressors, the company is the market leader in Europe and a supplier to all well-known system and bus manufacturers. Bock products for cooling and air conditioning are also in use worldwide in trains and on ships.
The company manufactures stationary compressors for all areas of cooling, especially for supermarkets, cold stores, fruit stores, bakery machines, for the beverage industry and for the chemical industry. Over the past few years, the products have also been increasingly used in building air conditioning and heat pumps .
The following compressor types and units (air-cooled condensing units) are manufactured:
- Semi-hermetic compressors
- HG suction gas cooled
- HA air-cooled
- HR radial piston compressor (HR series)
- Open compressors (F series)
- Vehicle compressors (FK series)
- SHG, SHA, PLUSBOX (units)
Bock has been developing compressors for the natural refrigerant CO 2 ( R744 ) since 1993 . The compressors are used up to an operating pressure of 130 bar on the high pressure side and 90 bar on the low pressure side. The compressors are used for transcritical and subcritical applications in supermarkets, commercial and industrial plants and heat pumps.
Production and sales locations
Bock has four production facilities:
- GEA Bock GmbH (Frickenhausen, Germany)
- GEA Bock Czech sro (Stríbro, Czech Republic)
- GEA Compressor Factory (Bengaluru, India)
- GEA Bock Compressors (Suzhou, China)
Sales in Germany are via specialist wholesalers. Abroad, authorized dealers sell Bock products in around 60 countries. Processing companies at home and abroad are supplied directly. The following subsidiaries and joint ventures sell Bock products directly:
- GEA Bock GmbH sales office Austria (Graz, Austria)
- GEA Bock GmbH (Lyon, France)
- GEA Refrigeration India Private Limited (Vadorara, India)
- GEA Bock (Thailand) Co., Ltd. (Bangkok, Thailand)
- GEA Refrigeration Malaysia Sdn Bhd (Petaling Jaya, Malaysia)
- GEA Refrigeration Singapore Pte Ltd (Singapore, Singapore)
- Office Shanghai GEA Bock Compressors (Hangzhou) Co., Ltd. (Shanghai, China)
- GEA Refrigeration Australia Pty. Ltd. (Rosebery, Australia)
- PT. GEA Refrigeration Indonesia (Jakarta, Indonesia)