Gentherm Incorporated

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Gentherm Incorporated
FormerlyAmerigon
Company typeIncorporated
Nasdaq: THRM
S&P 600 component
IndustryAutomotive
Founded
  • 1991; 33 years ago (1991) in California (as Amerigon)
  • 2012; 12 years ago (2012) (as Gentherm, Inc.)
Headquarters
Farmington Hills, Michigan
,
U.S.
Number of locations
20 (2017)
Area served
Worldwide
Products
  • Climate control seat
  • Medical devices
  • Electronics
Revenue
  • Increase USD $985.683 million (2017)
  • $917.600 million (2016)
Number of employees
11,000[1]
Subsidiaries
  • Etratech
  • Cincinnati Sub-Zero
  • Gentherm Global Power Technologies
Websitewww.gentherm.com
Footnotes / references
[2][3]

Gentherm Incorporated, formerly called Amerigon, is an American thermal management technologies company. Gentherm created the first

Kia,[6] Hyundai,[4] Nissan[4] (Infinity), Range Rover and Jaguar Land Rover
.

The company today is a developer and marketer of thermal management technologies for heating and cooling and temperature control devices for a variety of industries.[7]

Gentherm is publicly traded on Nasdaq under the symbol THRM and is headquartered in

Peltier Effect, the 1834 discovery that passing an electric current through a sandwich of two dissimilar metals will make them hot on one side and cold (the lack of heat) on the other.[9]

Since 2005, Gentherm has been partnering with

Seebeck Effect.[13] A prototype of the ATEG was named one of the most promising innovations for 2012 by Car and Driver magazine.[14]

In December 2014, the company announced that it will open a new automotive plant in

North Macedonia, and that will employ 1,000 people. This is Gentherm's first facility in Macedonia.[15]

Gentherm has 20+ locations in the following countries: Canada, China, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Malta, Mexico, North Macedonia, South Korea, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, and Vietnam.

References

  1. ^ "GENTHERM INCORPORATED : Shareholders Board Members Managers and Company Profile | US37253A1034 | MarketScreener".
  2. ^ "Annual Reports". Gentherm. 2017-12-20. Retrieved 2018-04-19.
  3. ^ "Gentherm Incorporated (Formerly Amerigon) - MarkLines Automotive Industry Portal". www.marklines.com. Retrieved 2018-04-19.
  4. ^
    Forbes.com
    , 4 April 2012.
  5. ^ St. Antoine, Arthur. "Backdraft. Troubled by gas? Try cooling your fanny", Motor Trend, Page 28, September 2006. www.motortrend.com.
  6. ^ “Heated and ventilated seat system for the 2011 Kia Sportage”, "Auto-Power-Girl Blog", 13 May 2010.
  7. ^ GS Analytics. “Will Gentherm Be Able To Leverage Benefit of W.E.T. Integration and Investments in New Electronic Business”, Seeking Alpha. 8 September 2013. Retrieved on September 26, 2013.
  8. ^ Kosdrosky, Terry. "Amerigon’s Potential Raises Its Profile", The Wall Street Journal New York, 5 April 2006.
  9. ^ O’Dell, John. “Want Cool Air? Take a Seat”, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, 18 July 2001. Highway 1, G1-2.
  10. ^ a b c “Gentherm to adapt passenger-car thermoelectric generator to heavy vehicles“, SAE Vehicle Engineering, Warrendale, PA, 1 October 2012.
  11. ^ Laird, Lorelei. “Could TEG improve your car's efficiency?” Archived 2011-07-19 at the Wayback Machine. DOE Energy Blog. August 16, 2010]
  12. ^ “Researchers Try to Convert Car’s Exhaust Into Power”, Associated Press, 13 August 2008.
  13. cleantechnica.com
    . Retrieved May 16, 2020.
  14. Car & Driver
    , December 2011.
  15. ^ "Gentherm To Expand Production Capacity In Europe with New Manufacturing Facility In Macedonia" (Press release). Gentherm Inc. December 16, 2014.

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