SPECIALISTS IN COOLING TECHNOLOGY A
lan Nissen is the CEO of a company that was founded by his great-grandfather, Julius Nissen, in 1921. Nissens began by making car radiators and is now one of Europe’s largest manufacturers of engine cooling products. From the 1980s, under Alan Nissen’s direction, the business diversified and began to produce cooling solutions for a broader range of machines. Nissens today has two divisions, one for automotive spare parts and another, the 50 Industry Europe
The Danish company Nissens AS manufactures radiators, oil coolers, heat exchangers, charge air coolers and condensers for the automotive sector and produces complete cooling solutions for various industrial applications such as excavators, generator sets and mining and forestry equipment. Nissens is also a major supplier of cooling solutions for the wind turbine industry.
OEM division, which makes cooling solutions for manufacturers of wind turbine generators, buses, earth moving machines and other on- and off-road machines. “We started as a local company in Denmark, but over the last decades we have developed into a global company with production plants in Slovakia and China,” stated Mr Nissens. “We decided to build our factory in Slovakia in 2003, and it was ready by 2005. We need the factory in China because our
biggest customers are expanding into China and want us to serve them in the region from the region.”
Offshore wind Denmark is famous for its pioneering role in the renewable energy industry. The Nissens OEM division moved into wind power as long ago as 1988 and produces cooling systems for wind turbine generators. As a wind turbine generates electricity it also produces heat.
