History
 
1962Unidad Hermética was founded by Mr. Antoni Forrellad. Created with Spanish and French capital, with the aim of producing compressors under Tecumseh Products Co. (USA) license.
1965The agreement for Tecumseh license was signed for the design of L, P and S ranges.
1972Spanish shareholders acquired 100% of Company’s capital.
1975The new factory is being built in Sant Quirze del Vallès - Barcelona.
1976The new factory in Sant Quirze del Vallès started operations, raising its production to 2 Million compressors per year.
1983Tecumseh license did not renewed and a new agreement was signed with Hitachi Ltd for D range.
1988Unidad Hermética joints Electrolux Compressors Group with the aim to supply compressors mainly to the Household Refrigeration market, while keeping Commercial Refrigeration compressors as a secondary business.
1989The company had deeply reorganized achieving a new competitive positioning in the market. Cubigel was created as the organization for Commercial Refrigeration global activities for Electrolux.
1998Commercial Refrigeration market gained relevance due to the contraction of Household market.
2000High Efficiency Ranges were launched with electronically controlled devices.
2003The company was acquired by Appliances Components Companies Group (ACC).The GD30FDC model was launched for mobile applications.
2004Cervera new factory was opened with a productive capacity of 1,1 Million compressors per year. The new X range was launched.
2006100.000.000 compressors manufactured
2009AIAC acquires ACC Commercial Cold Division and Cubigel Compressors, S.A. is founded.
 
 
 
 
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