Kelvion

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Kelvion Holding GmbH

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legal form GmbH
founding 1920
Seat Bochum , GermanyGermanyGermany 
management Jürgen Vinkenflügel, Marcus Mayer
Number of employees 5000 (2019)
sales EUR 787 million
Branch mechanical engineering
Website www.kelvion.com
As of September 24, 2019

Kelvion , headquartered in Bochum, is an international manufacturer of industrially used heat exchangers for a wide variety of market segments . As part of the former GEA Heat Exchangers , Kelvion was part of the GEA Group until October 31, 2014 .

Company profile

Kelvion is headquartered in Bochum, Germany. With 47 sales and production sites around the world, Kelvion is an international manufacturer of industrially used heat exchangers for a wide variety of market segments. In 2019 the company employs around 5000 people.

The name Kelvion pays homage to Lord Kelvin , who formulated the laws of thermodynamics .

One of the subsidiaries is Kelvion PHE based in Sarstedt .

history

The origins of Kelvion go back to 1920, when Otto Happel founded the Gesellschaft für Entstaubungsanlagen mbH, GEA for short. In the first few decades, the company greatly expanded its business activities in the field of heat exchange, leading the industry early on with its innovations in the field of heat technology and setting benchmarks in terms of technological standards.

In 1999, GEA was bought by mg technologies (successor to Metallgesellschaft), which was renamed GEA Group AG in 2005 . In 2010, GEA bundled all of its heat exchanger activities in one GEA Heat Exchangers ("HX") segment. GEA Heat Exchangers GmbH formed the holding company for this segment.

On June 20, 2013, the GEA Group announced that it was separating from the GEA Heat Exchangers Segment. From January 1, 2014, HX Holding GmbH acted as the segment's holding company.

In April 2014, the sale of the GEA Heat Exchangers Segment to the German-Swedish private equity company Triton Partners was announced with effect from November 1, 2014. The sale was successfully completed on October 31, 2014 with economic effect as of January 1, 2014.

On November 9, 2015, HX Holding GmbH announced the new name Kelvion for its heat exchanger division. The remaining business areas of the former GEA Heat Exchangers Segment will operate under different names and with a different market presence:

In 2018, Rocore , a manufacturer and supplier of heat exchange products in the USA, officially became part of the Kelvion Group in September. Triton Partners had already acquired the company in October of the previous year.

Products

Kelvion's products include plate heat exchangers , compact finned tube heat exchangers , single tube heat exchangers , tube bundle heat exchangers , transformer cooling systems and cooling towers . With this, the company serves market segments from the fields of power generation, oil and gas industry, chemical industry, marine industry, heavy industry, air conditioning and environmental technology, food industry and sugar processing, refrigeration technology and transportation.

Web links

Commons : Kelvion  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kelvion Holding GmbH: Management of Kelvion. Retrieved September 24, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b Kelvion Holding GmbH: Kelvion - Who we are. Retrieved September 24, 2019 .
  3. ↑ According to the 2016 annual financial statements in the electronic Federal Gazette for 2016
  4. ↑ Kelvion locations worldwide. Retrieved September 24, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Sepp Kressierer: Short biography Wiliam Thomson (later Lord Kelvin). In: www.av.ph.tum.de. Technical University of Munich, accessed on July 13, 2016 .
  6. ^ Alfons Oebbeke: Reorganization of GEA and GEA Heat Exchangers - from 1920 until today. August 6, 2015, accessed July 13, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Merger with Gea is considered certain: MG Technologies is drawn to the Ruhr area. In: www.handelsblatt.com. February 12, 2004, accessed July 13, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Acquisition at Gea is imminent: MG Technologies becomes Gea. In: www.handelsblatt.com. September 30, 2004, accessed July 13, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Realignment at GEA. In: www.diekaelte.de. DIE KÄLTE + Klimatechnik, December 7, 2009, accessed on July 13, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Plant manufacturer: Gea to sell air conditioning business. In: www.handelsblatt.com. June 20, 2013, accessed July 13, 2016 .
  11. ↑ Julia Becker: Second blow: PE investor Triton also buys GEA Heat Exchangers. In: www.finance-magazin.de. April 14, 2014, accessed July 13, 2016 .
  12. ↑ GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft: GEA successfully completes sale of Heat Exchangers to Triton. In: www.dgap.de. October 31, 2014, accessed July 13, 2016 .
  13. ↑ Tobias Hüser: Gea Heat Exchangers becomes Kelvion. In: www.process.vogel.de. November 11, 2015, accessed July 13, 2016 .
  14. ↑ Tobias Bolsmann: GEA Heat Exchangers splits up into three companies. In: www.derwesten.de. FUNKE MEDIEN NRW GmbH, January 4, 2016, accessed on July 13, 2016 .
  15. ↑ Rocore becomes part of the Kelvion Group. September 1, 2018, accessed September 24, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Products from Kelvion. Retrieved September 24, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Markets & areas of application for Kelvion's products. Retrieved September 24, 2019 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 48.8 "  N , 7 ° 11 ′ 30.6"  E