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Danfoss celebrates 75th anniversary in 2008

The global industrial group Danfoss – one of Denmark’s largest compa-nies – celebrates its 75th anniversary this year. In 1933, the company was founded as a small single proprietorship by engineer Mads Clausen.

Danfoss in brief
The Danfoss Group is a leading company within the research, development and production of me-chanical and electronic components and systems. Danfoss’ technologies create quality of life for people all over the world. Clean water, heating and cooling are vital for our well-being. With a wide range of products and high-tech solutions within refrigeration and air conditioning, heating, water and motion controls, Danfoss delivers many indispensable functions in private homes and in the in-dustrial sector.

Its products meet customers’ needs within areas as diverse as food preserving, productivity, energy-saving, environmental improvement and comfort. The resource-saving products are essential for the future of a world where there is an increasing focus on consideration for the environment and the scarce resources of nature.

Ever since the company’s foundation, regard for the individual, respect for nature and its values, and environmental and social responsibility have characterised the company and its activities. To-day, with the Danfoss Group as a global industrial company, they continue to be the fundamental elements of its basic values – thanks to the Clausen family.

A few words about the company's history
With his first product, the expansion valve for refrigeration systems, Mads Clausen founded the company "Dansk Køleautomatik & Apparat-fabrik" in 1933. The name Danfoss was embossed on all of the products and, in 1946, the company name 'Danfoss' was registered. During the first year of the business, 466 valves were sold. In the following year, sales quadrupled and the growth contin-ued.

Mads Clausen realised at an early stage that the prerequisites of growth and stable employment were a wide product range and a large international market share. And in 1939, the first agent con-tract was signed with the company Itho, based in Holland. In 1942, valves were produced under a license in Sweden and agents were set up in Spain and Sweden. In 1943, the company celebrated its 10th anniversary with 179 employees and 37 different products. The first 100% owned sales company was set up in 1949 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and agents from 21 countries met at the "Danfoss Convention 1950" the year after.

In the years that followed, Danfoss expanded substantially. In 1953, employee no. 1,000 was en-gaged and, in the following year, the company took on employee no. 2,000. From the period follow-ing World War II and in the 1960s and 1970s, Danfoss set up production and sales companies around the world.

Danfoss remains a family-owned company, headed by Mads Clausen’s son, President and CEO Jør-gen M. Clausen, with his brother, Peter J.M. Clausen, chairing the Bitten and Mads Clausen Founda-tion – the Group’s controlling body.

Danfoss in figures
At the moment, the group has more than 70 factories in 25 countries, 114 sales companies and 116 agents and distributors worldwide. Danfoss employs more than 22,000 people around the world.

Email: uk.drives.sales@danfoss.com