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Kelvion, headquartered in Bochum, is an international manufacturer of industrially used heat exchangers for a wide variety of market segments. As part of the former GEA Heat Exchangers, Kelvion was part of the GEA Group until October 31, 2014.

Company profile
Kelvion is headquartered in Bochum, Germany. With 47 sales and production locations worldwide, Kelvion is an international manufacturer of industrially used heat exchangers for a wide variety of market segments. In 2019, the company employs around 5000 people.

The name Kelvion is a tribute to Lord Kelvin, who formulated the laws of thermodynamics..

History
The origins of Kelvion go back to 1920, when Otto Happel founded Gesellschaft für Entstaubungsanlagen mbH, GEA for short. In the early decades, the company greatly expanded its business activities in the field of heat exchange, leading the industry early on with its innovations in the field of heating technology and setting technological standards.

n 1999 GEA was bought by mg technologies (successor of Metallgesellschaft), which was renamed GEA Group AG in 2005. In 2010, GEA bundled all of its heat exchanger activities into a GEA Heat Exchangers ("HX") segment. GEA Heat Exchangers GmbH formed the holding company for this segment.

On June 20, 2013, the GEA Group announced that it was divesting the GEA Heat Exchangers segment. From January 1, 2014, HX Holding GmbH acted as the segment's holding company.

In April 2014, the sale of the GEA Heat Exchangers segment to the German-Swedish private equity firm Triton Partners, was announced, being effective November 1, 2014. The sale was successfully completed on October 31, 2014 with economic effect from January 1, 2014.

On November 9, 2015, HX Holding GmbH announced the new name Kelvion for its heat exchanger business. The remaining business areas of the former GEA Heat Exchangers segment will operate under different names and a different market presence:


 * DencoHappel bundles the area of heating, ventilation and air conditioning technology
 * Enexio focuses on cooling tower components and ash and water treatment

In September 2018, Rocore, a manufacturer and supplier of heat exchange products in the USA, officially became part of the Kelvion Group. Triton Partners had already acquired the company in October of the previous year.

Products
Kelvion's products include plate heat exchangers, compact finned tube heat exchangers, single tube heat exchangers, shell and tube heat exchangers, transformer cooling systems and cooling towers. The company serves market segments in the areas of power generation, oil and gas industry, chemical industry, marine industry, heavy industry, air conditioning and environmental technology, food industry and sugar processing, refrigeration technology and transport.