Many successful entrepreneurial stories began either randomly or with humble beginnings in a home garage. KRONOTERM is no exception. The company, initially named Termo-tehnika, was founded by Rudi Kronovšek thirty years ago. Right in his own garage. Rudi Kronovšek was a visionary and developer with a sense of entrepreneurship and a pioneer in the field of heat pumps since 1976. While employed in a large Slovenian household appliances company during that time, he developed the first generation of serially produced sanitary heat pumps in Slovenia. His desire to explore numerous possibilities for using heat pumps led him to establish his own company.
The beginnings were not always easy, but with exceptional support from his wife Cvetka, Rudi slowly and successfully paved his way in heating technology. The first production line of sanitary pumps followed, and a few years later, the expansion of the company from a single workshop and garage to larger business premises, which were decisive and necessary for the establishment of a new line of heating heat pumps. In 2010, the management of the company was taken over by his son Bogdan, who continues Rudi’s passion for the development of heat pumps. “Creativity drives me. Making things that benefit others, creating something new that is not generic,” says director Bogdan Kronovšek. With the new generation came the time for a new brand and later the renaming of the company. Our successes outgrew the then-current facilities, and in 2015, we moved to large production facilities just steps away from the previous ones, which also house one of the most modern laboratories in this part of Europe. The laboratory, over 300 m2 in size with two testing chambers, enables cutting-edge research, essential for the development of new and even better heat pumps.
