History
Events and changes that have transformed and improved ApenGroup
The book entitled “LA STORIA SIAMO NOI” (WE ARE THE STORY) describes fifty years of Apen Group’s business activities, including with the company’s establishment under the name Thermovür in 1967, and its merger with Aermax in 1973.
It’s the story of a family business that has endured over time, designing, producing and selling heating products in an innovative way, monitoring the changes taking place around the world, and adapting to meet the new needs in terms of energy savings and respect for the environment.
With this book, ApenGroup wanted to highlight the fact that a Company is not merely made up of products and a market presence, but above all people.
The ApenGroup timeline, from the early years to today
The events and stages that have distinguished and characterised our history, in chronological order
RESEARCH, INNOVATION, AND ECOLOGY.
A SOLUTION FOR EVERY NEED
We’re constantly evolving. The market, the experiences, the difficulties have made us stronger and more committed to facing new challenges, new technologies, new countries.
We want to defend the values we believe in to be able to improve environmental comfort, attention to people and the use of energy.
We also want our company to contribute to a better future!
Initiatives and projects are always being shared with our followers.
In 2017, APEN GROUP S.p.A. commemorated the 50th anniversary of its establishment at the Alfa Romeo Historical Museum, where six floors of history seek to draw connections between the past, present and future. The event highlighted the evolution of a family business, whose two founding partners, both with the same name and surname, “Angelo Rigamonti”, pioneered this adventure back in 1967, with great courage and enthusiasm.
That same enthusiasm and passion has been passed down and shared by family members who joined the company at a later time, as well as by all the staff and collaborators.
STRIVING TO REACH NEW GOALS
We’re constantly evolving. The market, the experiences, the difficulties have made us stronger and more committed to facing new challenges, new technologies, new countries. We want to defend the values we believe in to be able to improve environmental comfort, attention to people and the use of energy. We also want our company to contribute to a better future!
CONSOLIDATION
In 1998, the company developed its Plus series modulating gas suspended heaters, which are CE approved and feature a high efficiency stainless steel exchanger, premixed gas burner, and forced draught with low NOx emissions. It was precisely the product innovation associated with this type of product that would later lead to the design of the Kondensa series. In 2001, the company introduced the AQUASPLIT: an outdoor boiler with a combined fan heater.
In 2008, the company reaffirmed its technical capabilities in the field of air conditioning with the introduction of various products on the market, including the suspended Kondensa condensing heater, air handling units, and Roof-top monobloc machines with built-in condensing heat exchangers.
APENGROUP IS BORN
The two companies create a single company, which will benefit from the wealth of knowledge of the two brands and the know-how now internalised by the company: APEN GROUP SPA is born, a group of companies for new energies. Apen Group today.
RESEARCH IN THE HEATING SECTOR
Research and the expansion of the sector
The heating sector is evolving rapidly, the building boom and the need to keep everyone warm leads to the need for different and innovative products: floor-standing boilers, wall-mounted boilers, gas burners, gas-fired wall-mounted warm air heaters, and gas radiators.
AERMAX
Thermovür is supported by the company AERMAX for the marketing of floor-standing warm air heaters and burners, particularly for the foreign market.
THE ORIGINS: THERMOVÜR
The company – founded under the name Thermovür – began its great adventure with the production and sale of oil and gas burners. The founding partners are two brothers-in-law with the same name and surname, “Angelo Rigamonti”, with the assistance and extraordinary professionalism of their father/father-in-law Emilio Rigamonti.