Company History
- The first plant in North America purpose-built for one thing, making plate heat exchangers.
We are one of the world’s leading manufacturers of plate heat exchangers, and have more than 75 years of experience in developing and supporting them. Our specialty is helping our customers to find solutions for their heat exchanger challenges, and supplying the best in technology to accomplish those answers.
1851. Eduoard Ahlborn founded the Ahlborn Company to produce agricultural machinery.
1930. Ahlborn Company designed and manufactured its first plate heat exchanger.
1979. Ahlborn became a part of Global Engineering Alliance (GEA), a publicly traded company based in Bochum, Germany.
1995. GEA Ecoflex created to focus on gasketed plate heat exchangers under the Ecoflex name. We continued to support the Ahlborn products, and even now supply parts for Ahlborn plate heat exchangers, a tribute to the quality and longevity of our work.
1998. After supplying plate heat exchangers to our American customers for decades, we opened GEA Ecoflex North America, our first US sales office in Louisville, Kentucky.
2005. GEA acquired FlatPlate Inc. (York, Pennsylvania) and WTT America (Bohemia, New York), manufacturers of premier brazed plate heat exchangers, enabling the company to become a one-stop-shop for plate heat exchangers.
2007. We opened our new multi-million dollar US headquarters in York, Pennsylvania, a state-of-the-art facility for developing and manufacturing plate heat exchangers. This is where we make the cutting edge brazed and gasketed plate heat exchangers that ship all over the world.
2008. GEA acquired ViEX, a Toronto-area manufacturer of fully-welded plate heat exchangers, completing our ability to supply any plate heat exchanger with a single phone call.
2008. FlatPlate Inc, WTT America and Ecoflex North America combined into a single company, GEA PHE Systems North America. Together with GEA ViEX, we manufacture in North America the full range of brazed, gasketed and welded plate heat exchangers for the North American market.
With our expanded operations, we continue to improve on our vision of “Leading Technologies, Individual Solutions”.
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