Gentherm Incorporated

Gentherm Incorporated, formerly Amerigon, is an American thermal management technologies company. Gentherm created the first thermoelectrically heated and cooled seat system for the automotive industry. Called the "Climate Control Seat" system, it was first adopted by the Ford Motor Company and introduced as an option on the model year 2000 Lincoln Navigator in 1999. Today it is available on more than 50 vehicles sold by Ford,^[4] General Motors,^[5] Toyota^[4] (Lexus), Kia,^[6] Hyundai,^[4] Nissan^[4] (Infiniti), Range Rover and Jaguar Land Rover.

Gentherm Incorporated

Formerly	Amerigon
Company type	Incorporated
Traded as	Nasdaq: THRM S&P 600 component
Industry	Automotive
Founded	1991; 34 years ago (1991) in California (as Amerigon) 2012; 13 years ago (2012) (as Gentherm, Inc.)
Headquarters	Novi, Michigan , U.S.
Number of locations	30+ (2017)
Area served	Worldwide
Products	Climate control seat Medical devices Electronics
Revenue	USD $985.683 million (2017) $917.600 million (2016)
Number of employees	14,000+[1]
Subsidiaries	Etratech Cincinnati Sub-Zero Gentherm Global Power Technologies
Website	www.gentherm.com
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Currently, the company is a developer and marketer of thermal management technologies for heating and cooling and temperature control devices for a variety of industries.^[7]

Gentherm is publicly traded on Nasdaq under the symbol THRM and is headquartered in Novi, MI.^[8] Gentherm's thermoelectric technologies are based on the Peltier Effect, the 1834 discovery that passing an electric current through a sandwich of two dissimilar metals will make them hot on one side and cold (the lack of heat) on the other.^[9]

History

Since 2005, Gentherm has been partnering with BMW^[10] and Ford^[10] on a project that is backed by the U.S. Department of Energy^[10][11][12] focused on the development of an automotive thermoelectric generator (ATEG) that converts waste exhaust heat into electrical power based on the Seebeck Effect.^[13] A prototype of the ATEG was named one of the most promising innovations for 2012 by Car and Driver magazine.^[14]

In December 2014, the company announced that it will open a new automotive plant in Prilep, North Macedonia, and that will employ 1,000 people. This is Gentherm's first facility in Macedonia.^[15]

Gentherm has 30+ locations in the following countries: China, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Mexico, Morocco, North Macedonia, South Korea, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, and Vietnam.