André is a self-employed refrigeration engineer, Hendrik has built up a small online business alongside his A-levels and imports textiles and garden furniture from the Far East. André has a garage full of unused components and intact second-hand appliances. To clean out the garage, he contacts Hendirk through a mutual acquaintance. The two sit down together and realise that the subject of refrigeration technology does not yet exist on the internet and start importing refrigeration technology tools from Asia under the brand name "Kellermann". This quickly goes so well that the previous individual projects of the two are abandoned in favour of Kellermann and they found the Kellermann Klima GbR.

The products are shipped from the former farm of Hendirk's parents. At first, a few shelves in the disused horse stable were enough, and the range initially comprised only about 50 different items - mainly tools such as flanging tools, fitters' aids, etc. After a lot of trouble with suppliers from the Far East, Hendirk and André decide to include tools from European suppliers in the range in order to meet the quality demands of professional craftsmen. At Chillventa 2010, the first contacts are made with Wigam and Mastercool. In order to integrate these extensive catalogues into the assortment, the first employee was hired, Jose Luis Rodriguez - who has been with us until today and is responsible for our purchasing.

At the beginning, our self-image was completely clear: we do refrigeration online. Print catalogues and field service belong to the old world, we are building the new one. Over time we have learned: bullshit. Whether online or offline, people always work together. And that's where it helps to know each other - and that's where it can also help to have a 2 kg catalogue to look up quickly. So in 2013 we started to publish a catalogue (at that time 7500 articles) and since 2014 we have also been serving our customers via a field service.

With the growing turnover and the increasing complexity of our assortment (at the end of 2015, we had 11,500 articles from 65 suppliers in our assortment), we are reaching various limits. Our ERP system is not growing with our needs, the warehouse is getting too small again, the corporate structure as a GbR is unfavourable and the webshops could also do with an overhaul. So we take out the wrecking ball and redo everything within a huge project: a new ERP system with scanner-based warehousing and a thousand other great functions, doubling the warehouse space, Converting into a GmbH (limited liability company), General overhaul of all Webshops. This keeps us busy for almost the whole of 2015 and large parts of 2016, but makes us fit for the future.

The energy we invested in the conversions the year before is paying off. After intensive work, we have well-developed processes, which excites our customers and allows us to grow stronger than ever before. We are now a full-range supplier for the refrigeration sector and are allowed to accompany various larger projects.

A new decade is dawning, time for change. In 2020, we will launch our newly designed online shop with many new improvements. In the course of the new shop, we are expanding even further and will now also be available in five different languages. Kältepartner is now available to our international customers in Italy, Spain, France, England and the Netherlands in the respective languages. Furthermore, we have further reduced our delivery times. From now on we offer our customers the possibility to receive our goods directly from our suppliers all over Europe. This saves you unnecessary waiting time and the goods reach you even faster.