Konvekta
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1957 |
| Seat | Schwalmstadt |
| management | Marco March, Horst Knauff |
| Number of employees | 500 |
| Website | [1] |
The Konvekta AG is a medium-sized company. It produces air conditioning systems for use in buses, work machines and rail vehicles, as well as transport refrigeration systems and cabin air conditioning systems for trucks. The company, based in Schwalmstadt in the Schwalm-Eder district in northern Hesse , employs around 500 people worldwide.
Company history
The company was founded in 1957 by Carl H. Schmitt as a tiled stove construction. In 1960/1961, Schmitt converted the company and founded "Konvekta GmbH for heating and air conditioning systems"; later he converted the GmbH into a stock corporation. In addition to Germany, the company has production facilities in Turkey, Argentina, Indonesia and China. The company is 100% family-owned to this day.
Konvekta was the first European manufacturer to mass-produce mobile air conditioning systems with the then new replacement refrigerant R134a . In 1994, Konvekta presented the world's first bus air conditioning system with carbon dioxide as a refrigerant at the International Motor Show (IAA), developed it further until it was ready for series production and was the first to use it in local transport from 1996.
Awards
In 1999 Konvekta received the special award from the Hessian Technology Foundation in the competition “Förderpreis Innovative Mittelstand” for the development of air conditioning systems with carbon dioxide as a coolant.
In 2000, Konvekta with its CO 2 air conditioning technology was selected as one of around 300 official projects at the EXPO 2000 world exhibition in Hanover. In the same year, the company was awarded the 2nd prize for environmentally friendly technologies within the framework of the “European competition for a better environment” organized by the European Union .
In 2007 the former board member and current chairman of the supervisory board of Konvekta AG, Carl H. Schmitt, and Jürgen Köhler received the German Environment Prize , the highest endowed environmental prize in Europe, from the German Federal Environment Foundation . This honored the company's commitment to the development of innovative and environmentally friendly air conditioning and refrigeration systems for vehicle construction.
In 2013 Konvekta AG received the Busworld Innovation Label for the development of an air conditioning system that is operated with the refrigerant CO 2 . This award was presented at the Busworld in Kortrijk, Belgium .