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1865 |
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Jakob Eberspächer founds in Esslingen am Neckar a craft enterprise for metal-framed roof glazing |
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1914 |
The factory starts operating on the site of the present-day plant and of the research and development centre |
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1929 |
An example of glazing of large public buildings: Milan railway station |
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1932/33 |
Heater and silencer production commences |
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Post-war years |
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Eberspächer produced toys, prostheses, doctors' cases |
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1953/54 |
Pre-heaters for the VW Beetle go into quantity production |
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1971 |
The Eberspächer exhaust technology centre in Neunkirchen is expanded |
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1975 |
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The Eberspächer B1L air heater sets new standards on the market |
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1980ies |
Eberspächer invests intensively in internationalisation. |
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1995 |
The modular Hydronic product family is presented: A comprehensive pre-heater range for passenger cars and commercial vehicles. Eberspächer is the first company worldwide to bring a fuel-burning auxiliary heater for compensating the thermal deficit in low fuel consumption diesel cars onto the market. |
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1996 |
Quantity production of close-coupled catalytic converters with especially high efficiency |
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1999 |
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World premiere in series - with electric auxiliary heaters from Catem, an Eberspächer subsidiary |
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2002/03 |
A big step: The Technical Center in Detroit and the catalytic converter factory Eberspächer North America (ENA) come on stream. The international presence of Eberspächer is also expanded in the Czech Republic, France and China. First delivery of the new, smaller Hydronic II heater generation |
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2004 |
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Quantity delivery of particulate filters With Martin Peters (since 2000) and Heinrich Baumann (since 2004) the fifth generation of family managing partners is in the management team |
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2005 |
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A new and convenient generation of controls for all air and water heating units: Standard remote control EasyStart "R" , programmable remote controls EasyStart "R+" and Timer EasyStart "T". |
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The ActiveSilence system is presented: effective noise-deadening and versatile sound design via noise reduction technology. |
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New heating as original equipment: the Hydronic II with quick-starter. Full heating power (5 kW) after just 25 seconds. |
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2006 |
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The newly developed "Fuel Processor" is presented, which can independently deal with the entire thermal management for an exhaust system, thus making exhaust emission control significantly more efficient. |
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2007 |
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Take over of what was previously a Daimler subsidiary, PUREM Abgassysteme GmbH & Co. KG in Unna (called Eberspächer Unna since February 2008). With this step, Eberspächer integrated a leading system integrator for the treatment of commercial vehicle exhaust into the company. |
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Eberspächer offers car-makers auxiliary heating suitable for bi-fuel vehicles or for auxiliary heaters as original equipment. Eberspächer presents integrated SCR concepts for nitrogen oxide cleansing for diesel cars, to meet future requirements in the USA (EPA 10) and Europe (Euro 6). |
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2008 |
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Introduction to the market of the new, particularly powerful generation of the Hydronic M II commercial vehicle heating system, with a long service life. The Eberspächer project team was awarded the VDI innovation prize for value engineering. |
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With retrospective effect to the 1st January, Eberspächer takes over catem Holding from Herxheim, the worldwide market leader for electrical auxiliary heaters, as well as the catem subsidiary DEVELEC, a developer and manufacturer of power electronics for vehicles. |
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Foundation of Eberspächer Electronics GmbH & Co. KG, Göppingen, on 1st June. The new subsidiary is expert on automotive bus systems, especially on FlexRay – a new communication standard of the international automotive industry.
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More informations
Annual Report 2007
Company profile
