Climate Technologies has reinvented itself in recent years as a company that works in both the automotive and green-tech sectors.
Today the Farmington Hills-based company is growing at a healthy clip while it continues to develop both ends of its business. Its revenue is up 15 percent in the last year, enabling it to hire another engineer in that time. It now employs six people.
"It's the rebounding of the automotive industry primarily," says Walt Zimmerman, CEO of
Climate Technologies.
The 44-year-old company got its start providing temperature and humidity-control services for the automotive suppliers. The rebounding automotive industry has helped beef up that business. It has also gotten work from larger organizations, such as hospitals and universities.
Climate Technologies has also been developing a new way of cutting pollution emissions. The climate-control technology captures toxic gases and concentrates them so they can be used in things like fuel cells. It's now working on a next-generation version that integrates natural gas into the mix to make it more efficient.
"It's a large step forward," Zimmerman says. "It makes the technology appealing to people with pollution-control issues."
Source: Walt Zimmerman, CEO of Climate Technologies
Writer: Jon Zemke
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