| Industry | Heating, ventilation and air conditioning and Renewable Energy |
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| Founded | 2001 |
| Headquarters | Remscheid, Germany |
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| Revenue | € 2,314 Million (2010) |
| Employees | 12,423 (2010) |
| Website | www.vaillant-group.com |
Vaillant Group is the name of an internationally operating heating, ventilation and air-conditioning technology concern based in Remscheid, Germany. This international company has approximately 12,400 employees, a turnover of about € 2.3 billion and is one of the leading suppliers in the industry. The Vaillant Group is a world market leader in the segment of wall heaters. The Vaillant Group manufactures its products in 14 sites in eight countries and sells them primarily through its own sales companies in over 80 countries.
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Johann Vaillant put with a specialist installation craft the foundation for today's Vaillant Group. In 1894 Vaillant reported the gas water heater "closed system" for a patent, thus creating a new market segment. With the furnace was first heated water hygienically, without any combustion gases struck down in the water. Vaillant developed their first central heating boiler in 1924. In 1961 Vaillant introduced the Circo-Geyser, the first company worldwide to put a wall mounted central heating boiler on the market. Saunier Duval took over the Belgian companies Bulex heating and Renova in 1970.
1995: Vaillant brought its first self-developed and manufactured fired wall heater to the market. In 2001, Vaillant took over the British competitor Hepworth-Group. The brands of the new group will remain separate in European markets. In 2004, the Vaillant Group put its new module plant in Trenčín/Slovakia into operation. 2006 the production of heat pumps in Gelsenkirchen was launched. The Vaillant Group acquired a majority interest in the Turkish heating and air-conditioning specialist Türk Demir Döküm Fabrıkaları. In 2008 the first own production of solar collectors in Gelsenkirchen was opened. Vaillant sealed cooperation with the Japanese technology company Honda for the development of gas-powered micro-cogeneration units for use in detached houses.
2010, market launch of the world’s first zeolite gas heat pump. It increases the efficiency of customary gas-fired condensing boilers by more than 20 per cent.
The company is wholly owned by the family.
A total of eight brands are under the umbrella of the Vaillant Group: Vaillant (1874, Germany), Saunier Duval (1907, France), awb (1934, Netherlands), Bulex (1934, Belgium), DemirDöküm (1954, Turkey), Glow-worm (1934, UK), Hermann (1970, Italy) and Protherm (1991, Czech Republic).
The 11 production sites of the Vaillant Group are distributed in seven European countries and China. In Germany alone there are four locations: Remscheid, Gelsenkirchen, Bergheim and Roding. In Slovakia the production takes place at the two sites Trenčín and Skalica. Other locations are Nantes/France, Belper/UK, Bozüyük/Turkey, Bergara/Spain and Wuxi/China.
The Vaillant Group produces energy efficiency products for heating, cooling and water heating. Technologies based on renewable energies such as solar thermal and photovoltaic systems, heat pumps or pellet heating appliances play an increasing role. Offerings also include hybrid systems that combine various components such as solar collectors, hot water heater and controller intelligently. The product portfolio also includes combined heat and power generation equipment, air handling units for low-energy, wall-hung and freestanding heaters on the basis of gas or oil, gas and electric water heaters, air conditioners and radiators!
In addition to the sustainability report, the Vaillant Group publishes regularly an annual report with information about the company's development, the staff magazine ‘Life’ as well as the compendium of ‘Energy, Facts and Figures’.