API Schmidt-Bretten is a medium-sized enterprise with regional roots, where personal commitment is recognized and encouraged. At the same time, we are a globally active company within the international API Heat Transfer Group.
We are committed to a clear promise to our customers: We create the best solutions for each individually. Thanks to our broad product range, we can adapt to specific customer requests even at very short notice. Maximum flexibility, maximum competence, maximum reliability.
is the year that an extraordinary success story begins with a patented cooler invention by Wilhelm Schmidt.
employees in Bretten alone contribute all their skills and a wealth of experience to the benefit of our customers.
continents - Europe, Asia and America - are the basis of the international API Group's manufacturing capacities.
If you trace the historical development of API Schmidt-Bretten, it becomes clear that we are just as regional as we are international - a medium-sized company with regional roots and, at the same time, a globally active player within the international API Heat Transfer group.
Against this background, we have divided our historical development into two chapters: API Schmidt-Bretten and API Heat Transfer.
Establishment of the Schmidt company in Bretten as a pioneer in the heat transfer industry
Coventry Radiator (later Covrad Heat Transfer) is founded in Coventry, UK
Serck Radiators Ltd. (later Serck Heat Transfer) is founded in Birmingham, UK
American Precision Industries is founded in Buffalo, NY, USA
Basco is founded in Buffalo, NY, USA as a manufacturer of shell and tube exchangers
American Precision Industries acquires Basco; the two companies form today's API Heat Transfer
Thermal Transfer Products is founded in Racine, WI, USA
Thermal Components, Inc. is founded in Montgomery, AL, USA
General ThermoDynamics (later acquired by Thermal Components) is founded in Franklin, WI, USA
Thermal Components is acquired by the ThermaSys Corporation
Founding of ARUP (tubing manufacturer) in Dortmund, Germany
API Heat Transfer opens the Airtech plant in Arcade, NY, USA
ThermaSys acquires ARUP
API Heat Transfer acquires Schmidt
ThermaSys acquires Thermal Transfer Products
API Heat Transfer enters the Asia-Pacific market with a manufacturing center in Suzhou, China
The Suzhou plant doubles in size and begins manufacturing all product lines
The Buffalo plant is expanded to offer additional manufacturing capabilities
ThermaSys acquires the Covrad and Serck Heat Transfer companies
ThermaSys acquires the Covrad and Serck Heat Transfer companies
A second Airtech plant is opened in Arcade, NY, USA
API Heat Transfer and ThermaSys Corporation merge
Opening of a third production facility in Suzhou, China
