W. Baelz & Son

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W. Baelz & Sohn GmbH & Co.

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legal form GmbH & Co. KG
founding 1896
Seat Heilbronn , Germany
management
  • Andrea Balz
  • Florian Balz
Branch Measurement and control technology , heat technology
Website www.baelz.de

W. Baelz & Sohn GmbH & Co. is a family company based in Heilbronn with over 100 years of tradition. In the field of measurement, control and heating technology, the company is one of the leaders in Germany and is specifically geared towards solving complex tasks in industrial systems as well as in heating, ventilation and air conditioning in general. One focus is on saving energy and simplifying steam and hot water systems. The company's headquarters are in Heilbronn. Further branches are located in larger cities in Germany as well as in Vienna , Paris and Beijing .

history

Baelz was founded by Wilhelm Bälz in Düren in 1896 and is still in family hands today. Before founding the company, Wilhelm Bälz manufactured handcrafted copper products in a shop with a workshop for household and trade. He realized that the manual production was no longer sufficient for the industry and founded the company W. Baelz in Düren together with a friend. After differences of opinion about the further development of the company, Wilhelm Bälz moved his part of the company to Heilbronn in 1914. In favor of Heilbronn, there was, on the one hand, that the city of Heilbronn sold inexpensive pastureland here and, on the other hand, that Wilhelm Bälz originally came from the Swabian town of Bietigheim-Bissingen . In the immediate vicinity of Wilhelm Bälz, Mr. Koepff built a gelatine factory. This is how the street of the parent company, Koepffstraße, got its name.

In the first decades the company specialized in the planning and execution of steam systems for the processing industry. The processing of copper was expanded to include iron and steel. Due to the effects of the Second World War, the company had to be almost completely shut down. During the air raid on Heilbronn on December 4, 1944 , the company's buildings on Koepffstrasse were completely destroyed.

After the end of the Second World War, operations slowly resumed and the destroyed buildings were gradually rebuilt. With the help of his son Helmut Bälz, heat exchangers and electrically and pneumatically driven valves were developed mainly for steam and thermal oil systems, which even then implemented the closed steam-condensate cycle. The company holds numerous patents in this area , which have been regularly adapted to the new requirements of the market. Among other things, the vertical heat exchanger in connection with the closed steam / condensate circuit was designed and patented by Baelz. This development is still state of the art in heating systems today.

In the early 1960s , the jet pump with adjustable nozzle and drive was developed and introduced into HVAC systems. Baelz also has numerous patents on elements of jet pump technology and their special forms of application in systems, in order to guarantee the innovative pioneering role also for the future. In the 1970s, Baelz received several awards from the state government of Baden-Württemberg for jet pump technology as a particularly economically valuable product. Due to the continuous further development of the jet pump over the years, Baelz is still the leading provider in this area and has made a significant contribution to improving the energy efficiency in systems. In 1978 , the Baelz Foundation was established to promote engineering training at universities in Germany in the field of practice-oriented control technology , especially building technology . This combination of theory and practice has contributed to the development of modern building and energy technology to this day.

Products

The company's product range covers the entire spectrum of measurement and control technology, including a .:

While heat transfer stations, fittings and regulators are manufactured in the plant in Heilbronn-Biberach , the subsidiary BS Nova Apparatebau GmbH in Siegen takes on the construction of the heat exchangers and steam generators.

Publications

  • Renate Kilpper: Regulated jet pumps in building technology , Modern Building Technology, Berlin 2010, pp. 26–28.
  • Uwe Bälz: Energy-efficient heating for individual heating comfort , Renewable Energy, Gleisdorf 2009, p. 10.
  • Marc Gebauer: Hydrodynamic water-heat distribution with six control loops and only one circulating pump , heating, ventilation and air conditioning, 2007, pp. 6-7.
  • Marc Gebauer: Regulated jet pumps in building services , heating, ventilation, air conditioning, 2006.
  • Marc Gebauer: Potential savings through control technology , EuroHeat & Power, Brussels 2004.
  • Hans Hesselbacher: Ade circulation pump , Chemie Technik, 2000, pp. 188-189.
  • Hans Hesselbacher: The economic efficiency of jet pumps in heating systems , Haustechnische Rundschau, 1976.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin : Baelz Foundation of October 9, 2009