Significant expansion of expertise

Hotset, the spe­cial­ist in ther­mo­dy­nam­ics, crowns its 50th year of ex­is­tence with the friend­ly takeover of the tech­nol­o­gy ser­vice provider iQtemp. This ac­qui­si­tion strength­ens the com­pet­i­tive po­si­tion of the Ger­man com­po­nent sup­pli­er and sys­tem de­vel­op­er in the field of in­dus­tri­al heat­ing tech­nol­o­gy and ex­pands its range of ex­per­tise by nu­mer­ous ser­vices re­lat­ed to state-of-the-art tem­per­a­ture con­trol tech­nol­o­gy. Read here which new mar­ket seg­ments hotset can tap in this way.

As a fam­i­ly-owned Ger­man com­pa­ny, hotset is con­sid­ered one of the lead­ing sup­pli­ers and sys­tem providers in in­dus­tri­al heat­ing tech­nol­o­gy. Its re­cent port­fo­lio in­cludes the pro­duc­tion of heat­ing el­e­ments and sen­sors as well as the de­vel­op­ment of cus­tomized sys­tem and project so­lu­tions. The ac­qui­si­tion of iQtemp on June 1, 2023 – just in the year of the company’s 50th an­niver­sary – marks a for­ward-look­ing step in the fur­ther ex­pan­sion of its ex­per­tise and its en­try in­to new mar­ket seg­ments. This is be­cause the in­te­gra­tion of iQtemp ser­vices from the ar­eas of en­gi­neer­ing, sim­u­la­tion tech­nol­o­gy, ad­di­tive man­u­fac­tur­ing as well as vac­u­um braz­ing, dif­fu­sion weld­ing, cor­ro­sion pro­tec­tion and fil­ter tech­nol­o­gy means a sig­nif­i­cant ex­pan­sion of the hotset port­fo­lio of prod­ucts, com­po­nents and sys­tems. “With this ex­pan­sion of ex­per­tise, we are un­der­pin­ning our skills in the fields of con­trol tech­nol­o­gy, sys­tem de­vel­op­ment and process op­ti­miza­tion, and at the same time open­ing up max­i­mum lee­way for the re­al­iza­tion of in­no­v­a­tive, in­tel­li­gent ther­mal man­age­ment so­lu­tions for all tasks in in­dus­tri­al heat­ing and cool­ing tech­nol­o­gy”, says hotset Man­ag­ing Di­rec­tor Ralf Schwarzkopf. On the one hand, this means that the com­pa­ny can sup­port its cus­tomers in plas­tics tech­nol­o­gy, tool­mak­ing, foundry en­gi­neer­ing, pack­ag­ing tech­nol­o­gy, food tech­nol­o­gy and hot run­ner tech­nol­o­gy even more in­ten­sive­ly in their de­vel­op­ment and de­sign work. On the oth­er hand, it can now ex­tend its op­er­at­ing range far be­yond in­to the ap­pli­ca­tion ar­eas of ad­di­tive man­u­fac­tur­ing, sur­face and coat­ing tech­nol­o­gy and ma­te­ri­als en­gi­neer­ing. “As a mat­ter of fact, hotset is in­creas­ing its op­er­at­ing range quite con­sid­er­ably by in­te­grat­ing our en­gi­neer­ing and tech­nol­o­gy ser­vices. What’s more, the fact that our ex­per­tise can be di­rect­ly linked to the re­cent hotset port­fo­lio in many places should re­lease syn­er­gies rel­a­tive­ly quick­ly”, says Car­lo Hüsken, pre­vi­ous Man­ag­ing Di­rec­tor of iQtemp.