Highlights from Espar company history |
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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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