Founded in 2019, MAGNOTHERM is a startup company headquartered in Darmstadt, near Frankfurt. Our international team of over 40 experts has world-leading expertise in magnetic cooling and magnetocaloric materials.
MAGNOTHERM aims to make a significant contribution to reversing the climate crisis and revolutionizing the cooling industry, which currently is responsible for at least 7 % of global CO2 equivalent emissions. Our technology allows cooling and heating with low pressure and is up to 30 % more energy efficient than current gascompression systems, whilst being non-explosive, non-flammable, and easy to maintain. We develop our clean cooling technology for the commercial market in Europe and beyond. Our aim is to meet the rapidly growing global demand for cost-efficient and sustainable cooling applications and offer a path forward for policy makers to help transition away from gas-compression cooling, a technology which has not changed for more than a century.
© MAGNOTHERM The first commercial magnetic refrigerator © MAGNOTHERM POLARIS in the supermarket
Magnetocaloric materials are at the heart of our technology. By exposing these materials to magnetic fields and magnetizing them, the material is instantly heated. This heat is dispersed using a waterbased cooling fluid. The material is then demagnetized, reducing its temperature. The material cools down a fluid, which is then pumped through the cooling application to reach the desired temperature. The process is repeated to maintain the temperature in the required range of cooling.
Since 2023, MAGNOTHERM and the Dresden High Magnetic Field Laboratory use their strengths synergistically with the common aim of building Europe’s first magnetocaloric hydrogen liquefier to demonstrate the feasibility of hydrogen liquefaction on an industrial scale.
