Gentherm Incorporated (Gentherm), incorporated on March 23, 2005, is a global technology company engaged in the design, development, and manufacturing of thermal management technologies. The Company has two segments: Automotive and Industrial. Its products provide solutions for automotive passenger comfort and convenience, battery thermal management, remote power generation, patient temperature management, environmental product testing and other consumer and industrial temperature control needs. Its automotive products can be found on the vehicles of nearly all major automotive manufacturers operating in North America, Europe and Asia. It operates in locations aligned with its customers' product strategies in order to provide locally enhanced design, integration and production capabilities and to identify future thermal technology product opportunities in both automotive and other markets. Its expertise in thermal management is focused on two general areas: managing the thermal conditions of people and objects and managing the thermal energy conversion to electrical energy.
The Company's technologies include Thermoelectric Technologies, Resistive Heaters, Electronics, Automotive Cable Systems, Air Moving Devices, Refrigeration Systems and Other Technologies. Its thermal products manage the thermal conditions of people and objects using its internally developed advanced thermoelectric device (TED) technology. Its Resistive heater technologies comprises wire, carbon fiber or positive thermal coefficient (PTC) heating elements, which deliver heat to people and objects. It manufactures and supplies electronics to its core thermal seat comfort, interior comfort and thermal convenience products. It produces automotive cable systems used to connect automotive components to sources of power. It offers cable systems as integrated parts of its products and also as standalone components for other automotive applications, such as oxygen sensors. Its cable systems business includes both ready-made individual cables and ready-to-install cable networks. Its quiet air moving devices, including its blower and fan designs, are essential to all of its products that require air movement. Its refrigeration systems are used in environmental test chambers to cool various products.
The Company's products include Seat Comfort, such as Climate Control Seat and Heated Seat; Thermal Convenience, such as TrueTherm Cup Holder and TrueTherm Storage Unit; Interior Comfort, such as Heated Steering Wheel and Heated Door and Armrest; Battery Thermal Management (BTM); Remote Power Generation; Patient Temperature Management Systems; Environmental Testing Equipment and Testing Services; Heated and Cooled Sleep Systems, and Heated and Cooled Office Chair. Its Climate Control Seats (CCS) products utilize technology to regulate temperature and enhance the comfort of vehicle passengers. The TrueTherm cup holder applies its TED technologies to keep beverages of automobile drivers and passengers either warm or cool. It has developed a range of cup holder models with varying degrees of functionality, designed to be packaged in multiple configurations to accommodate different console environments. Its dual independent design provides separate temperature settings in each holder allowing the driver and passenger to individually maintain a heated or cooled beverage.
TrueTherm storage units provide for food or beverage cooling for the global automotive market. Using TED and other technologies, the TrueTherm cool storage unit provides temperature control independently from a vehicle's heating and air conditioning system. It can be custom designed to accommodate tight interior spaces and provide additional cooling capacity to those having long work commutes or transport multiple passengers. TrueTherm cool storage units are available in the front floor console of several sport utility vehicle (SUV) vehicles. Heated steering wheels deliver heating comfort to automobile drivers through resistive wire elements, similar to those used in its seat heater products. Its thermally conductive door panel armrest and center console armrest are powered by technologies used in its seat heating products. Its BTM system can provide precision battery cooling on pack or cell-level using patented TED technology. The BTM system maintains the temperature of the lithium-ion battery or other chemistry battery within an acceptable temperature range without the use of chilled liquids or refrigerant loops. It is a provider of remote electric power generation systems, primarily serving upstream and midstream oil and gas markets. Using its industrial TEG technologies, its generation systems deliver ultra-reliable power for long-term unattended operation in geographically remote applications that are critical to its customers' operations, such as wellhead automation, valve automation and cathodic protection of pipelines.
The Company designs and produces turnkey systems that are customized for application, load, power and fuel source, and location requirements. Other applications for its remote power generation systems include mobile telecommunications, security and surveillance and scientific monitoring. It provides a full line of patient temperature management systems designed to manage patient body temperatures in operating rooms, recovery rooms, intensive care units and other areas of hospitals, as well as for use in the home healthcare market. It provides standard and custom designed environmental test chambers that execute reliability tests by subjecting products to environmental extremes, such as temperature, humidity, altitude, and vibration. Its heated and cooled sleep system solution incorporates its Climate Control Sleep System (CCSS) technology.
Automotive
The Automotive segment comprises the results from its global automotive businesses and individual convenience products. Operating results from its automotive seat comfort systems, specialized automotive cable systems and other automotive and non-automotive thermal convenience products are all reported in the automotive segment because of their complementary focus on automotive content and/or individual comfort and convenience. Automotive seat comfort systems include seat heaters, variable temperature CCS designed to provide individualized thermal comfort to automobile passengers, and integrated electronic components, such as blowers and electronic control units, that utilize its electronics technology. Specialized automotive cable system products include ready-made wire harnesses and related wiring products. Other automotive products include the automotive steering wheel heater, heated door and armrests, heated and cooled cup holders and thermal storage bins.
Industrial
The Industrial segment represents the combined results from its remote power generation systems business, its patient temperature management systems business, its environmental testing equipment and services business and advanced research and product development division. The advanced research and product development division is engaged in projects to improve the efficiency of thermal management technologies and to develop, market, and distribute products based on these new technologies.
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The company trades on NASDAQ exchange. The company headquarter is located in Michigan, MI. The company was established in the 1968.| Ticker | THRM |
| Long Name | Gentherm Inc |
| Short Name | Gentherm |