Bitzer wins Acrex Award for Green Products

21.04.2016 -

Bitzer the specialist in refrigeration compressors has gained its excellent reputation as long-standing company with ingenuity, reliability and quality over more than 80 years. The fact that the CSVH3 series won the Acrex Award of Excellence 2016 emphasises Bitzer’s position as a driver of innovation within the entire industry and proves that if it’s green on the outside, it’s green on the inside.

140 years of Armaturenwerk Altenburg

18.12.2019 -

Founded in 1879, Armaturenwerk Altenburg (AWA) is one of Europe s leading manufacturers of valves, sight glasses and fittings for refrigeration and air conditioning technology. Now the 140th anniversary of this traditional Thuringian company is being marked.

New Cutaway Model of Refrigerant Pump for Ammonia Training

03.07.2019 -

Since the opening of the Schaufler Academy in February 2016, Bitzer’s international training centre also offers ammonia training. To promote practical experience, Hermetic donated a cutaway model of an NH3 pump to the Schaufler Academy that will be used in each NH3 (R717) training from now on.

Experts get Together at the Art of Compression Colloquium 2018

06.07.2018 -

For the fifth time, The Schaufler Foundation has organised the international Art of Compression Colloquium. On 16 May, at the jointly organised event by TU Dresden and Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, researchers came to the museum Schauwerk Sindelfingen in Germany, to discuss the refrigeration, air-conditioning and heat pump technology of the future.

Rainer Große-Kracht Elected as the New Chairman of ASERCOM

14.02.2018 -

On 12 January, during the annual general meeting of the Association of European Refrigeration Component Manufacturers (ASERCOM), Rainer Große-Kracht was elected as its new chairman of the board. With a degree in mechanical engineering, he has worked for more than two decades in the refrigeration and air conditioning industry. As the Chief Technology Officer and a member of board at Bitzer, the specialist in refrigeration compressors, he has now represented the company in the ASERCOM association for 6 years.

New Training Course: Converting Refrigeration Systems with R404A and R507A for Use with Low-GWP Refrigerant

15.12.2017 -

Bitzer has been promoting the development of compressors for refrigerants with low global warming potential (GWP). The specialist in refrigeration compressors has now developed a new training concept: on 28 November, at the Rottenburg training centre, company experts explained for the first time how to convert systems for use with low-GWP refrigerants such as R448A and R449A.