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Home » Danfoss Icon Turns 75

Danfoss Icon Turns 75

September 13, 2018
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In 1943, the founder of Danfoss, Mads Clausen, invented the world's first radiator thermostat. Seventy-five years later, the product is more relevant than ever in a world trying to control the temperature.

In Europe alone, there are over 500 million radiators with manual and unregulated valves. If you installed radiator thermostats on them all, Europeans could save 12 billion euro and 130 TWh of energy every year. The upgrade would reduce Europe's annual CO2 emissions by 29 billion tons – and the investment would pay for itself in just two years. That is according to a report from the European Building Automation Controls Association.

“The first prototype of the world's first radiator thermostat was tested in my father's office. It was the birth of the world's first thermostatic valve for controlling the temperature in a room. The actual marketing began in 1952, when the radiator thermostat was launched as a device that saves money and makes centrally heated rooms more comfortable, and from there on it just took off,” said Jørgen Mads Clausen, chairman of the board at Danfoss.

The product was patented and gave Danfoss a leading position when the company began mass production of the radiator thermostat.

Visit www.danfoss.com.

 

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