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España · Spanish air‑conditioning manufacturer active in the 60s‑70s (according to Atecyr)
Klimat is one of the ghost brands of Spanish air conditioning. Its name survives thanks to a single phrase, but from a reputable source: Julio Cano Lacunza, industrial engineer with more than fifty years in the sector and board member of Atecyr, who cites it in his chronicle of the 60s and 70s as one of the four national manufacturers —“Roca, Interclisa, Klimat, Elyte”— that met the demand for equipment when air conditioning began to spread through the singular buildings of large companies, banks, hotels and hospitals. Those were the years when installers (Acoysa, Airesa, Corcho) carried out the major projects and Spanish manufacturers supplied the equipment, almost always with technology licensed from the United States.
Arcadio García Lastra, in another Atecyr article, provides the technical context: by 1959 autonomous air‑conditioning units of 9,000 to 90,000 frigorías/hour, water‑cooled, “and except for a few accessories everything was of Spanish manufacture” were already being produced in Spain. Klimat belongs to that generation: the one of autonomous cabinet units for shops, machine rooms and offices, prior to the Japanese split.
Beyond that, we have not managed to document anything solid: neither the corporate name, nor the city of the factory, nor the license under which it operated, nor the date or reason for its disappearance. Searches in commercial registers and accessible newspaper archives do not return unequivocal results, partly because “Klimat” is today a generic name used by dozens of installers. It is very likely that the brand disappeared with the mid‑70s crisis or in the wave of foreign purchases of the 80s, which according to Cano Lacunza himself left manufacturing “concentrated in foreign companies in the great majority, with the purchase of local companies.” If you have a catalogue, a specification plate, or an advertisement from Klimat, that is exactly the type of piece this encyclopedia needs.
Corporate name, headquarters, factory, license, dates of activity and closure: only the mention of Atecyr as a Spanish manufacturer of the 60s‑70s is present.
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