Variotherm Heating Systems

A World Record with Variotherm - Ironman

The weather was good on July 7th at seven o’clock in the
morning when 2.453 triathletes gathered at the Lake Wörthersee in Klagenfurt. With just a few clouds and a nice temperature it was the ideal conditions for such a competition.

This, however, changed during the course of the race. Bad weather moved into the skies above Carinthia and it rained like cats and dogs.

After an excellent time of 8:06.11, Belgium‘s Marino Vanhoenacker was declared the winner of the IRONMAN Austria triathlon for the third straight year. But the real sensation was the Variotherm-sponsored German triathlete Sandra Wallenhorst. It was not only her first IRONMAN victory; she also set a new world record of 8:47.26. She pulverised the previous record of over nine hours.

It was also an excellent race for Variotherm general director
Alexander Watzek. He finished his first IRONMAN race with a respectable time of 11:45:07.

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New on the team

We are happy to welcome our new colleagues Karl Gruber and Manfred Thallermayr.

Karl Gruber is a veteran field professional who has spent 15 years in sales with heating pumps, wall and floor heating units, as well as biomass units. He will be an asset to our field service and sales team in western Austria.

Manfred Thallermayr graduated from technical school
and is a passionate craftsman. At Variotherm he is working in the finishing department where he can apply his technical talents.

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Ready for Exams

Our annual office outing this time took us to southern Burgenland. In the idyllic village of Neustift an der
Lafnitz the Variotherm team took a “special exam” in agriculture.

In unbelievebly humourous funny exam segments, we had to mow hay with a scythe, saw through tree trunks, milk cows, and make and bake bread.

It was incredibly fun, an excellent spectacle.

After completing their exams, the entire team was ready to relax, which is what we did in the nearby spa at Bad Tatzmannsdorf, where we enjoyed the rest of the day.

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Innovationsteam

How do innovations come about at Variotherm? Is there a technical genius who sits in his little workshop and dreams up brilliant new ideas? Or do all the innovations come from practical working operations?

From left to right: Thomas Baumgartner, Alexander Watzek,
Peter Unterrainer, Herbert Holzbauer, Angelika Fischer

The truth actually lies in a combination of the two. The fact is that Variotherm has a 'dream team' which meets every two or three months and deliberates for hours on innovations. An important part of the input for these meetings comes, of course, from the market and from our customers and partners. This feedback then gives us lots of interesting ideas for the optimisation of existing products and the development of new ones.

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Photo: our organiser Michaela Galavics

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