History

On June 14, 1976, Evapco, Inc. was founded in Baltimore, MD under the visionary leadership of William E. Kahlert, Wilson E. Bradley and financial advisor John A. Luetkemeyer. Building on Mr. Kahlert and Mr. Bradley's combined 46 years of industrial cooling experience, Evapco began as a manufacturer of forced draft evaporative condensers for the growing industrial refrigeration industry.

Evapco's durable, innovative designs and ability to provide special attention to the different needs of its customers ensured immediate acceptance of Evapco's products domestically and overseas. Within three years of founding, Evapco opened a new facility in California and established a licensing agreement with CCT in Italy, later becoming a wholly owned Evapco operation.

Building on the successful formula of commitment to research and development, quality products, competitive prices and customer satisfaction, Evapco continued to grow throughout the 1980's. Facilities and licensees were strategically opened in South Africa, England, Australia, Illinois and Taneytown, Maryland to better serve the emerging market. Evapco also expanded its product lines to include various styles of evaporative condensers, closed circuit fluid coolers and open cooling towers.

In 1986, Evapco revolutionized the factory assembled evaporative cooling industry with the introduction of the induced draft, counterflow AT cooling tower. The innovative AT design represented the most efficient, space saving, easy maintenance evaporative cooling product ever introduced. Evapco's highly successful AT design was subsequently incorporated into the evaporative condenser and closed circuit cooler product lines as the ATC and ATW models.

By 1990, Evapco moved its world headquarters from Baltimore to Taneytown, where it is located today. Building on its core values, Evapco continued to grow through the 1990's, and strengthened international operations by opening facilities in China and Belgium and a licensee in Egypt. Evapco continued to enhance the product line by engineering several new industrial evaporator product lines featuring patented fin coils. In 1994, Evapco acquired Refrigeration, Valves and Systems (RVS) in Bryan, Texas, adding recirculator packages and pressure vessel products, enabling Evapco to provide all of the major heat transfer components of an industrial refrigeration system. In 2000, Evapco, Inc. opened a new facility in Iowa, further expanding the refrigeration product line with critical air process equipment and rooftop evaporator units.

2005 was another exciting year for EVAPCO, Inc.  A new subsidiary was opened in Lenexa, Kansas.  EvapTech, Inc. will provide large field erected cooling towers for the Power and Heavy Industrial markets.  Also in 2005, Tower Components, Inc. was acquired by EVAPCO.  TCI is located in Ramsuer, North Carolina and makes a variety of heat transfer material that is used in evaporative cooling towers

Evapco's commitment to excellence in research and development has provided years of continual product improvement to the air conditioning and industrial refrigeration industry. Today, Evapco Inc. continues to remain a strong, growing, employee owned company, building on a successful philosophy of quality engineered products and unmatched customer service.