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The following section is an excerpt from Wikipedia's Eberspächer page on 22 December 2020, text available via the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
The Eberspächer Group of Companies, with headquarters in Esslingen am Neckar, Germany, is a privately owned family business that is an international automotive supplier with 80 locations in 29 countries. Customers include almost all major manufacturers of passenger cars and commercial vehicles. It is one of the leading system developers and suppliers of exhaust technology, vehicle heaters and air-conditioning systems worldwide and is also involved in automotive electronics for electronic networking in the vehicles.
Master tinsmith Jakob Eberspächer founded the company in 1865, which soon specialized in metal-framed roof glazing. In 1914 the factory starts operating on the site of its present-day plant in Esslingen. 1931 starts the production of mufflers and 1933 the development of vehicle heating systems. During the post-war emergency Eberspächer produces products such as prostheses, metal cases and small cookers.
Pre-heaters for the VW Beetle went in mass production 1953. In 1960 Eberspächer took over the Neunkirchen metal works in the Saarland and set up a silencer production facility there.
Development of diesel particulate filters for passenger cars begins in 1978. In the 1980s the company invested intensively in internationalisation: production facilities are established in France, Sweden and Switzerland. During the 1990s Eberspächer established further subsidiaries in South Africa, Czech Republic, the US, Brazil, England and Poland.
The electrical auxiliary heaters of the catem subsidiary went in series production in 1999.
In the 2000s the Research and Development Center in Detroit as well as the North America catalytic converter plant came on stream. The firm offered tools for electronic networking with automobile bus systems for the first time in 2008. In August 2014 Eberspächer has transferred its wholly owned subsidiary Eberspächer Electronics GmbH & Co. KG, based in Göppingen, to STAR COOPERATION Group, based in Böblingen.
In 2010 the company acquired Sütrak and enters the bus and coach air-conditioning market. In the same year, it took over of the Prototechnik division of Ricardo Deutschland GmbH, a firm specializing in lightweight design of exhaust systems.
Eberspächer opened in June 2013 new Asia headquarters and production site in Shanghai/China.
In September 2016 the Eberspächer Group acquired a majority stake in the Canadian company Vecture Inc. Eberspaecher Vecture Inc. offers battery management products for industrial applications, medical technology and vehicles.
In 2018 Eberspaecher expanded its expertise as a vendor of thermal management systems. The automotive supplier acquired 100 percent of the shares in French company Kalori SAS. The climate control specialist based in Lyon, France, develops and produces air-conditioning and ventilation systems for commercial and special vehicles.
| Date | Article | Author/Source |
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| 12 March 2015 | Parking Heater Company Pleads Guilty in Price-Fixing Scheme | Department of Justice, Office of Public Affairs |
| 25 June 2015 | Parking Heater Company Sentenced to Pay $14.9 Million Criminal Fine for Price Fixing Scheme | Department of Justice, Office of Public Affairs |
| 25 August 2015 | Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993--Cooperative Research Group on Advanced Combustion Catalyst and Aftertreatment Technologies | Federal Register: DoJ (Patricia A. Brink) |