Eurovent
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| Abbreviation | Eurovent |
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| Motto | Europe’s Industry Association for Indoor Climate (HVAC), Process Cooling, and Food Cold Chain Technologies |
| Formation | 1958 |
| Type | Trade association |
| Legal status | Non-profit company |
| Purpose | Representative of the Indoor Climate (HVAC), Process Cooling, and Food Cold Chain Technologies industry |
| Headquarters | Head Office Brussels, Diamant Building |
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Region served
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EMEA |
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Membership
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17 national trade associations (members), 24 corresponding members, 7 associate members |
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Official language
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International |
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President
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Alex Rasmussen |
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Main organ
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Eurovent General Assembly |
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Staff
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6 |
| Website | https://www.eurovent.eu |
| Remarks | Secretary General: Felix Van Eyken |
Eurovent is Europe’s Industry Association for Indoor Climate (HVAC), Process Cooling, and Food Cold Chain Technologies. Its members from throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa represent more than 1.000 companies, the majority small and medium-sized manufacturers. The organisation’s activities are based on highly valued democratic decision-making principles, ensuring a level-playing field for the entire industry independent from organisation sizes or membership fees.
The below article provides information on Eurovent's:
History,
Structure (members, decision-making bodies),
Services (Technical and regulatory affairs, industry representation, Product and Issue Groups),
Other activities (events and exhibitions), and
Its two independent subunits Eurovent Certita Certification and Eurovent Market Intelligence.
Eurovent is one of the oldest industry associations of its kind. The association as we know it today, is the result of the merger of the associations CECMA, the European Committee of Constructors of Air Handling Equipment, and CECOMAF, the European Committee of Refrigeration Equipment Manufacturers, in June 1996.
The association represents an industry that started to develop in the 1950s, at a time when the market for heating and refrigeration systems started to grow rapidly. Simultaneously, the European Economic Community was founded and marked the start of a unified regulatory system for goods and services.
European manufacturers of air-handling technologies felt the need for in-depth cross-national coordination and information exchange, leading to the foundation of CECMA (later Eurovent) in 1958. Its founding members were national industry associations from Belgium, France, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands.
Simultaneously, associations from the same countries representing the refrigeration equipment industry formed the European Committee of Refrigeration Equipment Manufacturers (CECOMAF), which closely cooperated with CECMA from the very beginning.
These associations were set up with two main objectives. First, to jointly develop working terminology in order to enhance communication. Second, to develop ‘codes of good practice’ or ‘recommendations’ in Technical Committees and to implement those as national standards. The latter process formed the basis of the European industry’s self-regulatory system, which, to date, is still a commonly used procedure in situations where no national or European standard is available.
In the course of the constant enlargement of the European Union, CECMA and CECOMAF expanded accordingly, with national associations joining from both EU andnon-EU member states, such as Denmark, the United Kingdom, Switzerland and Sweden. Around the same time, in 1964, CECMA changed its name to Eurovent.
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