Highlights from 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 glazing of large public buildings: Milan railway station

1932/33

Heater and silencer production commences

Post-war years

Eberspächer produced toys, prostheses, doctors' cases

1953/54

Pre-heaters for the VW Beetle go into quantity production

The one millionth silencer leaves the Eberspächer factory

1971 

The Eberspächer exhaust technology centre in Neunkirchen is expanded

1975

The Eberspächer B1L air heater sets new standards on the market

1980ies

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

2002/03

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

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