| 1967 |
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Kanthal buys a licence from USA |
| 1970 |
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Start of Foil division |
| 1973 |
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Start of Norells Sweden AB in Västerås, mainly producing "domestic" application of heating elements |
| 1975 |
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First Commercial product: Piglet heater |
| 1981 |
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First break through into Automotive Industry, rear view mirror heater delivered to Britax Wingard UK to Ford |
| 1984 |
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Start of Waterbed production |
| 1986 |
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Norells sells 1 million rear-view mirror heaters |
| 1990 |
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Opening of Production Plant in France, to be inside EU |
| 1992 |
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Split of Kanthal and Calesco |
| 1994 |
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First delivery of RVM heaters into US Market |
| 1995 |
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Opening of Norells US Office in Chicago |
| 1996 |
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Norells sells 5 Million heaters per year |
| 1998 |
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NIBE buys Calesco |
| 1999 |
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Norells sells 10 million heaters per year |
| 2000 |
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Calesco starts a Production unit in Poland |
| 2001 |
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Calesco takes over Norells |
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Reorganisation of US Office in Chicago |
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Calesco-Norells sells 15 million heaters per year |
| 2002 |
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Transfer of Norells Sweden facility (Head Office, Sales, R&D, Production) from Västerås to Kolbäck |
| 2003 |
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Closing down of Norells France, transfer of production to Poland |
| 2004 |
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Calesco starts a production unit in China |
| 2005 |
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Calesco signs an Exclusive Sales and Distribution Agreement with Muth Mirrors Systems for Europe |
| 2006 |
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Calesco reaches 20 million heaters per year |
| 2007 |
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New factory site in Shenzhen, China
Norells France becomes Calesco France and moves to Lyon in july |
| 2008 |
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April: Calesco moves its Logistics Department for Europe to Backer-OBR, Poland
October: Calesco moves its Logistics Department for Asia-Australia to Shel-Nibe, China |
| 2010 |
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Calesco becomes a business unit within Backer BHV. Calesco Norells Inc. becomes Backer Heating Technologies Inc. |