ENER-G, the Manchester-based sustainable energy firm, has bought Budapest’s Kipszer Klima Controll, an air-conditioning supplier catering to customers in central and northern Europe.
Kipszer Klima Controll (whose customers include the Hungarian Parliament building), specialises in creating ‘pure space’ environments for clean room applications including hospital operating theatres and laboratories.

Klima Controll was acquired from the family of Imre Koszta, who will continue to run the business with Zoltan Ballago as project director and Zsolt Racz as service manager.

Imre Koszta said “Klima Controll is a skilled, experienced and well-resourced operation. This gives us the ability to expand across central Europe and beyond – providing an enhanced portfolio of technologies and services to increase our share of the international energy, heating and cooling market.”

ENER-G already owns a Hungarian firm, the cogeneration company ENER-G Energia Technológia, which was acquired in 2006.

ENER-G's group managing director Derek Duffill, Peter Szabo and Balazs Marialigeti of ENER-G Energia Technológia, will join the Klima Controll board.

ENER-G, a UK-owned subsidiary, provides renewable and energy efficient power generation and management worldwide. The acquisition of Klima Controll brings ENER-G’s major transactions to four in ten months, following its purchase in renewable, geothermal heating and cooling specialists Ground Source Solutions in April 2008, energy metering and control business Switch2 in December 2007, and the utilities services company CMR Consultants in October 2007.

ENER-G has a turnover of more than £70m and employs 650 people in the UK and overseas.

ENER-G's group managing director Derek Duffill said “Klima Controll's strong technical skills and comprehensive turnkey solutions will deliver powerful synergies as a result of operating alongside ENER-G. This is a key acquisition for us in an increasingly important European region and I am confident that it will drive further growth.”