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ITZER has been developing and manufacturing reciprocating compressors, screw compressors, scroll compressors and pressure vessels for over 75 years. With its headquarters in Sindelfingen, a town west of Stuttgart in south-west Germany, BITZER has 27 sales locations and 17 production facilities, and is further represented in over 90 countries. In 1934 Martin Bitzer founded the company which in 2008 became BITZER SE.
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The company started out by manufacturing expansion valves and two-cylinder reciprocating compressors. In 1961, graduate engineer Ulrich Schaufler took over the company. His son Peter Schaufler currently serves as the company’s CEO. In 2011, annual sales revenues of €632 million were achieved with a payroll staff of 2.966. BITZER is an active shareholder in various companies and in all of its subsidiaries the company insists on an environmental policy
The Germany based BITZER SE is the world’s largest independent manufacturer of refrigerant compressors. Marco Siebel spoke to the chief sales and marketing officer, Michael Bauer, to learn more about two models of screw and scroll compressors that the company has launched in 2012.
that conserves resources and the company has earned a wide variety of certifications. Michael Bauer said “In 2011 we invested €50 million in the expansion of two of our production facilities in China and the US. In China the production facility went up from 15,000m2 to 30,000m2, and in the USA from 15,000m2 to 25,000m2. Our R&D expenditure for 2011 was €18 million, which allowed us to launch among other products two new screw and scroll compressors.”