STIEBEL ELTRON Gesellschaft mbH

About STIEBEL ELTRON

STIEBEL ELTRON Gesellschaft mbH, based in Hörsching near Linz, is the Austrian subsidiary of the internationally active, family-owned STIEBEL ELTRON Group, whose parent company is Dr. Theodor Stiebel Werke GmbH & Co. KG. Since 1924, the Group has been developing and manufacturing electrical, hot water and heating appliances as well as systems for the use of renewable energies: air-source, brine-source and hot water heat pumps, instantaneous water heaters, drinking water and buffer storage tanks, ventilation systems with heat recovery, integral ventilation units as well as fresh water and apartment stations. Manufacturing takes place in the company's own production facilities in Holzminden, Eschwege, Freudenberg, Hameln and Höxter (Germany) as well as in Poprad (Slovakia), Arvika (Sweden, Thermia AB), Ayutthaya (Thailand) and Tianjin (China); nearly all thermoplastic components are produced in Eschwege, and storage tanks are enamelled in steel. Customers include residential construction, commercial buildings, educational institutions and the real estate industry. The Austrian branch handles sales, consulting, quotation service, commissioning, factory customer service and training of trade partners.

Site

A-4063 Hörsching

Processes

Consulting and planning, Heat pump quotation service (free quotation), Factory customer service (repair, maintenance, emergency service), Commissioning, Maintenance contracts, Training for trade partners, Product registration and 5-year warranty on complete systems, Recycling/take-back system (packaging, old appliances, batteries)

Materials

Enamelled Steel, Thermoplastic (Plastic)

Certificates

ISO certification quality management, ISO certification environmental management, ISO certification energy management, ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 50001

Founded

1924

Industries

Building services, Building technology / decarbonisation of the real estate industry, Residential construction (single- and multi-family homes), Commercial buildings, Educational institutions, Educational institutions (classrooms)

Materials and Processes

Sites

Quality

STIEBEL ELTRON is certified to ISO standards in the areas of quality management, environmental management and energy management. A 5-year warranty is granted on complete systems; the factory customer service handles commissioning, maintenance and repair with documented protocols.

History

1. 1924

   Founding of ELTRON Dr. Theodor Stiebel on 5 May 1924 in Berlin-Kreuzberg; invention and production of the ring immersion heater

2. 1927

   First foreign branch in London

3. 1929

   Branch office in Zurich opened

4. 1934

   Relocation to Berlin-Tempelhof, around 150 employees, annual turnover of one million Reichsmark

5. 1939

   350 employees, annual turnover of 3.2 million Reichsmark

6. 1943/1944

   Berlin plant destroyed by bombing; relocation to Holzminden, production resumed from April 1944

7. 1946

   Resumption of hot water appliance production with 400 employees

8. 1949

   New hydraulic instantaneous water heater DH18

9. 1952

   Production of galleys for passenger aircraft

10. 1957

    Coffee machines for airliners and small storage tanks

11. 1960

    Death of company founder Theodor Stiebel

12. 1962

    More than 2,200 employees

13. Development and production of heat pumps (for over 50 years, i.e. from around the mid-1970s)

14. First fully electronic instantaneous water heater

15. First integration of heating, ventilation, cooling and hot water generation in one appliance

16. Opening of the Energy Campus in Holzminden

17. 2001

    Start of production in Ayutthaya, Thailand

18. 2004

    Production site Tianjin, China

19. 2018

    Acquisition of Thermia AB, Sweden

20. 2026

    50 years of heat pumps from STIEBEL ELTRON; launch of the wpnext product family with natural refrigerant R290