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Founded in 1947 by Paul Wallet with
its head office and production site near Paris, Airwell,
then called L'Air Conditionné Entreprise (ACE), was the
first company to design and produce air conditioning
units in Europe. Its first cooling systems were designed
to cool down industrial processes rather than people.
Only three years later, however, ACE started to produce
direct expansion air conditioners for residential and
light commercial applications which were especially
designed for the severe climate conditions in the French
African colonies and Middle East countries.
Since then, the Airwell product range
has been known for its high reliability, efficiency and
quality standards and the company hasn't stopped
growing. In contrary to its competitors, Airwell has
always focused on air conditioning products, which is
certainly one of the reasons for the company's world
wide success.
The first air conditioning units
manufactured under the Airwell brand in 1950 were window
type units. Today, the company's product portfolio is
known to be one of the widest in the market including
all types of air conditioning equipment covering
residential, commercial and industrial applications:
mobile and window type units from 4 to 7 kW, terminal
fan coil units up to 80 kW in case of direct expansion
systems and up to 135 kW in case of water cooled
systems, air cooled condensing units up to 150 kW, air
cooled and water cooled water chillers up to
respectively 1646 kW and 1000 kW as well as water source
heat pumps, roof tops and air handling units. Including
altogether more than 600 models, the Airwell product
range meets the demands of private households, large
residential, commercial and industrial applications as
well as of niche markets such as propeller fan chilled
water units.
Besides Airwell, the most important
brands of the Airwell Group are Electra, Fedders and
Wesper. Products sold under the Airwell brand covering
the complete range of residential and commercial
applications in different markets. The products sold
under Wesper brand name are mainly commercial products,
while Electra products are mainly residential ones.
Airwell Group recently acquired the Fedders brand which
is used to fulfil customers product needs in the US
residential and unitary markets.
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Airwell-Fedders North America, Inc.
offers a full line of heating and air conditioning
products. All heat pump and air conditioners are 13 SEER
rated. The furnace line offers models of 80% single
stage and variable speed two stage in the 80% as well as
the 95% models. The room air line covers the range of
5,000 through 32,000 btus and includes portables,
through the wall and room air with both heat and cooling
modes.
Fedders has been a recognized name in
the heating and air conditioning community for many
years. Beginning as a room air company, Fedders has
evolved to a full line of residential products.
Fedders was purchased by The Airwell
Group of Paris France, a subsidiary of ELCO Holdings,
Ltd. in March, 2008. It has been a time to regroup and
more importantly, define Airwell-Fedders North America's
vision to insightfully move forward in the marketplace.
The company has met this challenge with an innovative
approach of meaningful programs and products designed to
differentiate itself from others in the industry.
In addition, The Airwell Group has
given Airwell-Fedders North America a mandate to match
the parent company's worldwide commitment of becoming
the preeminent environmentally friendly HVAC
manufacturer in the western hemisphere. It's a tall
order but one which the company has made the commitment.
The industry will be seeing more and more innovation
from Airwell-Fedders with our products and programs as
we move forward to reach this mandate.
Headquartered in Monroe Township, NJ,
the company's distribution center is in Edwardsville,
MO. Manufacturing is accomplished in factories located
in Barlassina, Italy, Pons, France, Tilleres, France,
Shenzhen, China, Rishon Le Zion, Israel, and Aires Del
Sur, Argentina.
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