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The company Weider stands for highly efficient heat pumps. These heat pumps extract around 80% of their energy from the ground or from groundwater and require a further 20% in the form of electrical energy in order to raise the extracted thermal energy to a higher level.
The independent heat pump test centre in Winterthur already acknowledged the company's class-beating performance results in 1996. In 1997 Weider was awarded the state prize for energy research.
Strengths of Weider Heat Pumps
• Clear focus on customer requirements (=energy efficiency)
• Continuous product innovation
• In-house development and production
• High depth of value created inside the company (only raw materials are purchase from third parties)
• Self-developed and self-manufactured electronic control system for the heat pump
• Heat pump as a modular building block system
• More than 30 years of experience in the field of heat pump technology
Markets
The core markets of the company are Austria, Germany and Switzerland. Additional export markets are currently being established.
Weider heat pumps are sold exclusively via authorised retail partners. Consequently, gas/water/heating installation engineers and heating planners are two of the main target groups. They are provided with continuous training by Weider in relation to the design and installation of heat pump systems. This ensures that the house owner is given the best possible advice and that the best possible system is installed.
Company History
| 1958: |
Founded by Fritz Weider (graduate engineer)
Production of welding transformers
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| 1963: |
Change of name to a private limited partnership with Walter Weider (brother of the company founder)
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| 1977: |
Start of production of heat pumps (pioneering company)
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| 1979: |
Sales cooperation agreement with Hoval |
| 1984: |
Sales cooperation agreement with Heizbösch |
| 1988: |
End of the 1980s: collapse of the heat pump market in Vorarlberg ('cold load plan') |
| 1991: |
Start of the 1990s: collapse of the heat pump market –
gas and oil surplus (oil price USD 10 per barrel)
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| 1996: |
'Best in test' in test series carried out by the heat pump test centre in Winterthur |
| 1997: |
State prize for energy research |
| 2000: |
Company taken over by Dipl.-Ing. Lucas Rupp |
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60 heat pumps produced per annum. The largest system
delivered a heating output of 30 kW at this time.
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| 2002: |
'Best in test' in test series carried out by the heat pump test centre in Winterthur (groundwater heat pump with a coefficient of performance (COP) of 6.8)
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| 2009: |
Turnover up by a factor of 10 since the takeover in 2000,
20 employees, approx. 500 heat pumps per year, turnover EUR 2.6 million, systems now produced up to a heating output of 120 kW.
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1st place in the Vorarlberg class in the "Small Businesses" category
at Austria’s Leading Companies |
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Heat pump measuring programme run by the state government of Vorarlberg, best system with a seasonal performance factor of 5.09 (i.e. 1 kWh of electricity delivers a heating output of 5.09 kWh)
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