Dantherm AS is the

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of several companies involved in the

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, sale, and installation of industrial

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products.

Business model

The company works both nationally and internationally, where they have established factories and sales companies. The company's two main areas are Telecommunications and

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and

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(HVAC). Within their ''Telecom'' business unit, the company is a supplier of cooling solutions for the telecom

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suppliers and network operators. Within their ''HVAC'' business unit, there are several branches: defense,

dehumidification A dehumidifier is an air conditioning device which reduces and maintains the level of humidity in the air. This is done usually for health or thermal comfort reasons or to eliminate musty odor and to prevent the growth of mildew by extracting wate ...

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ventilation, and residential ventilation. The total sale for the Dantherm group represents 464.6 million

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(DKK). (2010), while the number of employees is approximately 537. The company's profit before tax represented a deficit of 44.5 million DKK, (improving over the previous years, when two entries were negative 96.5 million DKK and 293.1 million DKK). In 2011, they expected an operating profit (

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) of 20-25 million DKK, a small profit before tax and a turnover of 500-550 million DKK. The

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of the Dantherm Group is located in Skive.

History

In 1958 E.R. Olsen founded his works under the name Danterm, which was changed to Dantherm. The increase in

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was the main force in the 1950s'

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, which in a few years abolished the high

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seen in the Skive region. This meant that many industrial

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were built, and all needed to be heated and therefore could potentially use fan heaters that Eilert meant to develop. In the 1960s the company became a

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and sales organizations were created in Norway, Germany, France and England. In 1973, the company was divided into Dantherm AS as a

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and Dantherm Trading AS, which would handle the negotiation of company products on the Danish

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. Eilert was always looking for new opportunities, which resulted in his development, in the late 1970s, of a

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in cooperation with low power

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Svend Thøgersen. The dehumidifier was patented and put into production in 1977–88. It was named ''CD'' (Condense Dryer). Dehumidifiers are now one of Dantherm's main areas. In the 1980s—after the

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—much was done in Denmark to be energy efficient. The company developed a cross flow

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that could regain the warm air in the building to heat the fresh cool air while

ventilating Ventilation is the intentional introduction of outdoor air into a space. Ventilation is mainly used to control indoor air quality by diluting and displacing indoor effluents and pollutants. It can also be used to control indoor temperature, hum ...

, instead of discharging heat out of the window. Svend Thøgersen founded in 1983 ''Stelectric'', which started supplying electronics control systems for them. In the mid 1980s Dantherm Norway developed mobile

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and

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equipment for the

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and

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. In the 1990s they ventured into electronics cooling, with telecommunications network as their main marketing area. In 1996 the company established a production facility in

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, United States and in 2001 in

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, China. In January 2016 Dantherm A/S was acquired by Procuritas, and became the foundation of DanthermGroup. In 2018 Troy Berg of Dane Manufacturing, a US based firm, purchased the US telecom division of Dantherm, forming Dantherm Cooling.

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