Reflection of Nefit in Deventer and the IJssel. by Bart Ros

About "Reflection of Nefit in Deventer and the IJssel."

by Bart Ros

About the artwork

The company is the result of a collaboration between Gieterij Ubbink and the Crane Company from Chicago, to meet the rapidly increasing demand for gas fittings. It was set up in 1948 with Marshall Aid under the name NV Dutch-American Fittingfabriek, later changed to Nefit.

In 1965 the Crane Company became the owner of the company and production of a cast iron central heating boiler began. In 1979, the company was taken over by the management through a management buy-out. After the energy crisis, the production of energy-efficient high-efficiency boilers began, of which the Nefit Turbo was the first in 1980.

In 1987 the company was split into a foundry and a heating division. In 1992 they merged with Fasto, after which the Nefit boilers were also manufactured in Buinen. In 1994 the foundry was split off and continued as Nefit Industrial. The shares of the heating company came into the hands of Buderus from Wetzlar, after which the name was changed in 2000 to Nefit Buderus BV.

The takeover of Buderus by Bosch in 2004 created the BBT Thermotechnik GmbH group, of which Nefit is a part. Nevertheless, the name was changed back to Nefit BV in 2005. In 2006, the municipality of Deventer awarded its prize for culture and science, the Gulden Adelaar, to Nefit because of the great social importance of a quarter of a century of innovation in the development of high-efficiency boilers. [1]

On Wednesday, November 25, 2009, it was announced that Bosch intended to move production