Highlights from the Espar Company History
   
Espar
   
1865

Jakob Eberspächer founds in Esslingen am Neckar a craft enterprise for metal-framed roof glazing

1914 The factory starts operating on the site of the present-day plant and of the research and development centre
1929

An example of the glazing of large public buildings: Milan railway station

1932/1933 Heater and silencer production commences
Post-war years
1953/1954

Pre-heaters for the VW Beetle go nto quantity production and the one millionth silencer leaves the Eberspächer factory

1971 The Eberspächer exhaust technology center in Neunkirchen is expanded
1975

The Eberspächer B1L air heater sets new standards on the market

1980 - 1990 Eberspächer invests intensively in internationalisation. Commercial vehicle particulate filters are produced. The new Research and Development Centre in Esslingen is built.
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.

1996 Quantity production of close-coupled catalytic converters with especially high efficiency
1999

World premiere in series - with electric auxiliary heaters from Catem, an Eberspächer subsidiary

2002/2003

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.

2004

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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