Technibel 🇫🇷

Technibel was for decades the other great French air‑conditioning brand alongside Airwell and CIAT. Founded in 1958 and based in Reyrieux, in the Ain department, about twenty kilometres north of Lyon, it specialized in air‑conditioners, aerothermal units, chilled‑water groups and, later, air‑to‑air and air‑to‑water heat pumps. Its splits and consoles from the eighties and nineties, with sober lines and thick sheet metal, still appear in shops and homes in southeastern France.

In 1992 it was bought by the Italian Argoclima, which was seeking market share in the cold water groups and the know-how of that technology; for more than twenty years Technibel was Argo's gateway to the French market and shared with the Gallarate factory the engineering of the Sanyo era. On February 27, 2014 Argoclima, amid market instability, sold it to the Swedish group Nibe Industrier: the company was then billing 12 million euros with 25 employees. Nibe integrated it into its climate division and, finally, the commercialization of products under the Technibel brand ended in December 2023, closing 65 years of history.

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