History
1973
Company's development:
- Foundation by Eugen Schwarzkopf
and partners
- Begin in Lüdenscheid,
Am Wendelpfad
- Building up agencies in Spain
and France
Product's development:
- HHP with and without thermocouple
and resistance sensor
1975
Company's development:
- Service as company's philosophy
Product's development:
- Building up wide range
of accessory
1977
Company's development:
- First Fair participation
(Hannover-Fair)
Product's development:
- HHP with copper tip
1978
Company's development:
- Introduction in the North European
Market Denmark, Sweden, Norway
Product's development:
- Coil heater for the use in hot runners
- Presentation of cabinet heater
1979
Company's development:
- Move to Wefelshohler Straße
1981
Company's development:
- Participation in FAKUMA
Product's development:
- WRP Ø 3,3
1982
Company's development:
- First contacts with the Asian
market (Japan)
Product's development:
- WRP/K in copper with
integrated cooling
- WRP Ø 3,8
1983
Product's development:
- HHP with power distribution and
integrated resistance sensor
1985
Company's development:
- Foundation of hotset
Corporation (USA)
- Building up agency in Japan
Product's development:
- HHP with outer cooling
- HHP Ø 4, development of
air stream heater (LSE)
- WRP/Mini Ø 1,8, F 1,3 x 2,3
for 230 V with clamping band
- WRP/K with cooling
1986
Product's development:
- First flat coil heater
1988
Company's development:
- Agency in Hongkong, New Zealand
and Austrich
- First CAD-device
Product's development:
- WRP/Maxi with head
1989
Company's development:
- Technology advice for keeping
the competitiveness
Product's development:
- WRP/Mini with axial screwing
- WRP/Maxi without head
1990
Company's development:
- Move of WRP production to
Hoffmeisterstraße
- Agencies in Turkey, Singapore,
Argentina and India
Product's development:
- Sealed heater (GMH) for
die casting and machine
nozzle BMD
- WRP/Q
1991
Company's development:
- hotset takes care of the issue air,
water, ground pollution prevention
as well as the packaging order of
1st December 1991
Product's development:
- WRP/Mini with axial screwing
- WRP/Q 3 x 3
- humidity-resistant inner construction
HHP and LHT
1992
Company's development:
- Conversion from data
technology to personal computer
Product's development:
- Bi-metal Mini
1993
Company's development:
- Start of the changeable organisation
Product's development:
- Ceramic outer insulation against
heat dissipation for WRP
- WRP/M
- Termination of VDE-testing LSE
- Bi-metal heater
1995
Company's development:
- Reorganisation of production
HHP/LHT in assembly-line
production. With almost the same
number of employees 21 % more
turnover than 1991 can be achieved
Product's development:
- Patent application of hotflex
the first flexible tubular heater
- The first bendable HHP goes
in production
1996
Company's development:
- DIN ISO 9001
Product's development:
- New generation temperature
controllers
- WRP/Mini CSA-approved
1997
Company's development:
- Internet presentation
- Considerable investments in
PPM-system
(production-planning-management)
- First trainings in India about
heating elements
Product's development:
- First GMH as assembly
- WRP/Mini with protective spring
1998
Company's development:
- 25-years-jubilee
Product's development:
- First plugable connection for WRP
1999
Company's development:
- First European conference with
agencies Introduction of integrated
standard software PSI-Penta
Product's development:
- Development of hotslot Middle
nozzle for zinc processing
2000
Company's development:
- Ralf Schwarkopf becomes second
managing director
- WRP-production with more than
100 employees
- New organisation structure
- DIN ISO 9001:2000
Product's development:
- Heating of 3D-moulds with hotflex
2001
Company's development:
- Internal quality auditors
- Eugen Schwarzkopf terminates the
active hotset-life
- re-audit DIN ISO 9001:1994
Product's development:
- New temperature controllers
serie RR 600
- HHP for Hot-Box-process
- WRP connection head
- Extrusion heating
2002
Company's development:
- Investment on Malta
Product's development:
- hotslot®
Square tubular heater
- Humidity-resistant WRP-head
2003
Company's development:
- 30-years-jubilee
- production optimisation ProFit
- movement with total production
in Hueckstraße
2004
Product's development:
- hotspring®
- lock-system axial clamping for the
heating nozzle
- hotspring®/F/1,8x3,2
- new series hotcontrol temperature
controllers C248 and C296
2006
Company's development:
- Introduction of the
hotrod®-Express-Service
- Certification for Russia-Export
- Introduction of CPro
(Customer Project Management)
Product's development:
- hotspring® Q/3,0 x 3,0
Ø 3,3; F/2,2x4,2 IP 68
with waterproof connection zone
- hotspring® Ø 4,0
2007
Product's development:
- hotcast® magnesium nozzle
- hotspring® spike-system
clampable reflection tube
2009
Company's development:
- Relaunch of the new website
2010
Company's development:
- Foundation of
Hotset America Corporation
President: David J. Cieslica
Product's development:
- hotcast Sprue Nozzle
2012
Company's development:
- Re-certification according to
DIN EN ISO 9001:2008
2014
Company's development:
- Foundation of HIPL India Pvt Ltd
General Manager: Raghavendra Rao
- Certification according to
DIN ISO 9001:2008 of
Hotset Heating Elements
(Suzhou) Co. Ltd.,
- Move to a new building of
Hotset Malta Ltd.
Product's development:
- Z-System
2015
Company's development:
- Move to a new building of Hotset
Heating Elements (Suzhou) Co. Ltd.
- Re- certification according to
DIN EN ISO 9001:2008
Product's development:
- hotspring Ø 3.0mm
- hotflex (more than 100 different
dimensions in stock)
- hotrod 1/8” (3.1mm)
2016
Company's development:
- A new Logo and a new Claim
- Hotset Malta Ltd. is
Energy Efficiency Partner
as per Directive 2012/27/EU
2017
Company's development:
- Change of name to Hotset GmbH
2018
Company's development:
- New Administrative Building for
Hotset America Corporation
- Certification according to
DIN EN ISO 9001:2015
Product's development:
- High-temperature heating
cartridges (up to 1,000°C)