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The small village of Tarm in Denmark is home to a company that warms homes in more than 50 countries
around the world. The products of the HS-TARM Company can be found throughout Europe, the Middle East,
Australia, Canada, and The United States. This is a company with a long history of keeping people warm.
Rasmus Soerensen, a blacksmith servicing the horse and wagon trade, founded the business in the early 1900’s.
His son Hans joined him, and expanded the small firm’s offerings to include wood stoves and eventually
central boilers that could be connected to remote radiators with pipes. The younger Soerensen, whose
initials “H.S.” were eventually incorporated into the company’s name and logo, manufactured his first
real boiler in 1927. |
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Baxi A/S Factory -
Tarm Denmark |
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The site of the tiny shop has grown over the years, but the dedication to hydronic heating has
never varied. Now more than 300 craftspeople work in a modern facility to serve the markets of the
world. The company makes 60% of the home boilers in Denmark. The guiding principles of the Soerensens
still guide the company’s product development and manufacturing. Quality control and attention to
detail are finely honed components of the HS-TARM identity. The company embraces all facets of machine
tool technology that can improve the fit and finish of HS-Tarm boilers, and matches them with human
attitudes that insure that the emphasis is always on quality. A million dollar laser steel cutter
has recently been installed to improve the already legendary fit and finish of the company’s products,
but the finest equipment, they know, is only as good as the people at the control switches. To this
end, HS-Tarm has become an ISO 9001 certified company. The ISO (International Standards Organization)
audits and assures the highest standards in quality, materials and workmanship. |
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The disruption in the supplies of fossil fuels, combined with environmental realities,
has motivated the company to design products that give the consumer the best chance of
achieving energy independence. No one knows how world events will affect fuel prices and
availability, but the HS-TARM owner knows that he will be prepared for any eventuality.
Rasmus and Hans Soerensen would approve. Although the company’s experience has spanned
many decades and has encompassed tens of thousands of home heating situations, the principles
of making quality products that keep people warm have changed very little over time. |
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In 1993 HS-Kedler-Tarm A/S was acquired by The Baxi Group. Baxi’s origins can be traced back to
an 1866 iron foundry in Lancashire town of Chorley in the United Kingdom.
Up until the 1930’s the company specialized in kitchen ranges, heating stoves, bakers ovens,
and castings for the textile industry. The company introduced the Baxi name for the first time
in 1935 by coming out with a controllable under-floor draught system for solid fuel heating. |
In 1963 Baxi developed warm air central heating technology fueled by gas. By 1966 Baxi was becoming
well-known with consumers in the UK when they introduced their most famous product, the space saving
Bermuda gas fired back boiler.
In 1983 the company was sold to the workforce for the equivalent of one year’s profits and became an
employee owned partnership. In the 1990’s Baxi began acquiring a number of European companies
becoming Europe’s leading manufacturer of domestic boilers and other heating products. |
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