Espar Heater Systems | A World of Comfort

Highlights from the Espar Company History



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