GEA Heat Exchangers /GEA Bloksma B.V.

Pieter Bloksma - A coppersmith by profession.


In 1920 Bloksma was founded by Pieter Bloksma, a coppersmith by profession. He started up his business in a small cellar, located in the centre of Amsterdam (The Netherlands), repairing radiators. After a few years he began, together with four of his sons, the production of radiators. In the thirties a complete network of workshops was founded by Bloksma.

At the end of the forties Bloksma started the design and production of shell & tube heat exchangers.  Production facilities were moved from Amsterdam to Diemen for air-cooled heat exchangers and Zutphen, where the production of shell & tube type coolers was concentrated.

In 1979 Bloksma moved and concentrated the production in Almere, located in the centre of the Netherlands.

Since 2008 Bloksma has been a part of the worldwide acting GEA Group AG in Bochum, Germany, and is now named GEA Bloksma B.V.

Bloksma has built up a respected name in the field of heat exchangers for oil, water and air purposes for a variety of  applications such as diesel engines, gearboxes, hydraulics  booster- and separator modules, turbines, transformers and compressors.