History
| 1967 - | Kanthal buys a license from USA |
| 1970 - | Start of Foil division |
| 1973 - | Start of Norells Sweden AB in Västeras, mainly producing "domestic" application of heating elements |
| 1975 - | First Commercial product : Piglet heater |
| 1981 - | First break through into Automotive Industry, rear view mirror heater delivered to Britax Wingard UK to Ford |
| 1984 - | Start of Waterbed production |
| 1986 - | Norells sells 1 million rear-view mirror heaters |
| 1990 - | Opening of Production Plant in France, to be inside EU |
| 1992 - | Split of Kanthal and Calesco |
| 1994 - | First delivery of RVM heaters into US Market |
| 1995 - | Opening of Norells US Office |
| 1996 - | Norells sells 5 Million heaters per year |
| 1998 - | NIBE buys Calesco |
| 1999 - | Norells sells 10 million heaters per year |
| 2000 - | Calesco starts a Production unit in Poland |
| 2001 - | Calesco takes over Norells Reorganiztion of US Office in Chicago Calesco-Norells sells 15 million heaters per year |
| 2002 - | Transfer of Norells Sweden facility (Head Office, Sales, R&D, Production) from Västeras to Kolbäck |
| 2003 - | Closing down of Norells France, transfer of production to Poland |
| 2004 - | Calesco starts a production unit in China |
| 2005 - | Calesco signs an Exclusive Sales and Distribution Agreement with Muth Mirrors Systems for Europe |
| 2006 - | Calesco reaches 20 million heaters per year |
| 2007 - | New factory site in Shenzhen, China Norells France becomes Calesco France and moves to Lyon in July |
| 2008 - | 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 |
| 2009 - | Calesco integrates into Backer group and Calesco Norells North America becomes Backer Heating Technologies |
DISTRIBUTOR FOR NIBE ELEMENT
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>> CALESCO
CALESCO´s business concept is to develop, manufacture and market thin flexible circuits for resistance heating or electric conducting. Calesco today supplies components to OEMs (original equipment manufacturer). MORE>
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>> BACKER
OEM - Produces large volumes of heating elements for OEM customers in Domestic appliances, residential heating, household appliances and industrial markets etc. MORE>
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>> DANOTHERM
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