Acc austria gmbh (founded in 1982 based in fürstenfeld, branches in germany, china and the usa) today belongs to the secop group (formerly: danfoss household compressors), subsidiary of the munich industrieholding group aurelius, and provides high quality acc cubigel (ex - electrolux) full-thermal coolant compressor for household refrigerators. with the development of the kappa compressor acc austria took over the technology lead on the refrigeration compressor market in 2001. due to the expansion of production associated with the new development, a doubling of the production volume could be achieved between 2001 and 2005. nowadays, acc austria produces approximately 7 million compressors a year, around 95% of the refrigeration compressors produced are exported abroad. the company is an important supplier of international oems and thus represents an excellent addition to the secop portfolio. acc austria gmbh, europe's largest manufacturer of hermetic cooling compressors with approx. 750 employees in fürstenfeld (production site and corporate headquarters for research and development) has one in 2013 sales of about 167 million euros generated. together with secop, acc will expand its research and development efforts in order to continue to keep the technological leadership in the field of compressors with solid and variable speed for household appliances. this will also be available in the future compressors that meet the highest demands on energy efficiency and low noise. the construction of the type number of acc - cubigel (ex - electrolux) compressors is as follows: evaporation temperature: lbp (-35 to -10 ° c) , mbp (-25 to 0 ° c), hmbp (-25 to + 10 ° c), hbp (-15 to + 10 ° c), vhbp (0 to + 25 ° c)