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art@huber
The Art@Huber gallery was created in memory of our founder, Peter Huber. It combines technology and art in a unique way and tells the story of the history, visions and creative forms of expression that have always shaped our corporate culture. The gallery not only honours Peter Huber's lifetime achievements, but also shows how closely the world of chillers can be linked to art, culture and inspiration.
The end justifies the art work. So, no objections can be made to any work of art that ultimately helps promote the Ministat’s and Tango’s reputation even in the most remote corners of the laboratory world, and the ever increasing degree of recognition that the Huber company has come to enjoy has to be accepted. The mini soccer players of the football club VFR Elgersweier that play for the Ministat (and have scored many a goal) and the youth's choir of the Elgersweier music club who beat the advertising drum for the Tango fortissimo are institutions that set the tone - That is what is called collateral fame.
Tango fortissimo: The first president of Offenburg's municipal orchestra - a cultural expert and a majestic voice within the Offenburg city council - has set the second main proposition of the Tango philosophy to music. "It Takes Two to Tango", station 3.
Tempo needs tango. With quite an uproar, Friedrich Ruf became the German motorcycle champion five times in a row, wearing a protective suit sponsored by the Tango factory (safety first) and doing promotion work for the Tango's speed. That was music in our ears, and we are wild about the commotion. Art@huber, on the other hand is more a feast for eyes and emotions. Tango piano for bon vivants: The cultivated never regret pleasure; the uncultivated do not know what pleasure is (Oscar Wilde). Art@huber tells the story of the Tango factory, as well as the history of the differences and similarities that exist between the Tango-Alemanno and the Tango-Argentino. Guy Respaud's history of the Tango can be admired in the Tango factory's cafeteria and the Tango factory's thermodynamic works of art can be admired at the Manual of Tempering Technology and at www.huber-online. com as well as in thousands of laboratories around the world. A few examples can be found in the second gallery "concrete art". Now, though, it is time to let the hammer and chisel and the graphic art paintbrushes tell their story.
Tango, feathered
Ingrid and Dieter Werres
The settled birds of the Offenburg artists Ingrid and Dieter Werres from the studio in the courtyard are among the most original public creatures in the city. Cast in bronze in front of the historic town hall, they let children play with them. Others sit on a wall projection or on a garage roof, alone or in pairs, and look up and down the streets. Sometimes interested, sometimes bored, but always unobtrusively friendly. As natives of Offenburg, they simply belong here.
For the 20th birthday of Tango Alemanno, also a native of Offenburg, the artists have taught their feathered works of art to dance the tango in perfect form. Subtly designed and perfectly choreographed for the christening of the little tango "Petite Fleur".
In view of the delicate shapes made of fired clay, it goes without saying that neither hammers nor chisels are allowed anywhere near the tango couples. The painter Guy Respaud will therefore continue the message of the feathered tango dancers with a very fine feather and a very soft brush: that you have to be two to dance the tango.
It takes two to tango
Guy Respaud
The second law of tango philosophy dictates that there must be two people to dance the tango. It takes thermodynamics and microelectronics to make a tango work. It takes technology lovers on both sides, tango inventors and tango users, to have fun with it. According to the contract of the Hohe Horn, which is valid as long as the Hohe Horn (534 metres above sea level) stands, the younger of the Huber brothers (Joe) has to build everything that the older (Daniel) can sell and vice versa. It takes two to tango - everything revolves around this law.
The French painter Guy Respaud designed the cover image for the Bioblock Scientific catalogue year after year and observed the conquest of French laboratory culture by the Ministat and the classic Unistat. After the conquest of the laboratory world by the tango, he could no longer be stopped from painting its history. The eight-part gallery in the casino of the Tango Factory is a highlight of his artistic work and, of course, a highlight of tango history. But before that happened, at the suggestion of Pierre Block, who made Huber's temperament technique the number one in French laboratories, he fused tango alemanno with tango argentino and literally intertwined them.
It takes two to tango, Guy Respaud's first motif, caused quite a stir in the specialised press. The really exciting thing about this picture is the pure fact that the painter, out of pure intuition, has hit the exact spot in the tango that makes the difference to the conservative technique. The painter didn't know it, Pierre Block didn't know it and nobody knew what Huber had cooked up. What the Stadtkapelle Offenburg cooked up afterwards, we (word of honour) didn't know beforehand either.
Because, for patriotic reasons, we emphasise at every opportunity that the tango comes from Offenburg, Offenburg city councillor Jess Haberer (vocals), together with city music director Thomas Berger, set "it takes two to tango" by Richard Myhill to new music using the city band and premiered it to great applause in the Reithalle on 21 May 2004. A cultural highlight in the history of tango and now a filler in the tango factory's telephone queue.
The Eternal Tango - a Masterpiece
Kurt Grimm
Opus nostrum nobile esto, utile et bene factum. Our work should be noble, useful and well designed. The first principle of the tango philosophy. The Tango Factory is an architectural masterpiece by the independent architects Wilhelm and Antonia Kasten, Aulendorf. A good reason not to bury the foundation stone 5 metres deep. In keeping with the building and its intended use, the foundation stone is a chiselled tango at the top and the patent specifications are embedded at the bottom to prevent thieves from reaching them. In a protective gas-welded stainless steel capsule W.Nr. 1.4571, that should hold.
The Eternal Tango, carved in stone by Kurt Grimm, stands in the grass as if for real. Charmingly and skilfully set into the foundation by master builder Antonia Kasten and building master Edith Schreiner. Master bricklayer Martin Lamm, President of the Freiburg Chamber of Crafts, stirred the mortar, and after her choreographic masterpiece as mayor of Offenburg, Edith Schreiner became mayor of Offenburg as soon as the tango had grown.
The tango is the basis, the foundation stone of the great Unistats. Thermodynamic works of art that exceed physical limits and artificially fall a hundred degrees below the lowest natural temperature in Offenburg. The Eternal Tango, the stone of those in the know, is a favourite photo motif for visitors to the Tango Factory, whose ten to twenty fit neatly into one picture, from the coldest point in Ortenau. The true foundation stone of the Tango Factory, however, is the international Tango Club, because marble breaks stone and iron. To understand the background and the excitement surrounding the tango, it is helpful and good to follow the noble motifs of the artists in this series.
We thermoregulate and we love curves
Heinz Kaufmann
Performance curves and cooling curves on the 1980/81 catalogue by Heinz Kaufmann, who designed the Huber logo on a beer mat during a morning pint in the "Adler". 1962 - a very old company. But we know that we look younger.
The Huber lettering never gets old. It's also thanks to the graphic designer of Huber's history, who is a master of curves, that a thermodynamic work of art from 1981, the Ministat, still looks like it was created yesterday after a quarter of a century.
Heinz Kaufmann has clear ideas about form and colour theory. On the other hand, as a lecturer at the Offenburg adult education centre, he seduces housewives and lawyers from the Ortenau region into the wildest forms of watercolour painting. The inventor of the Huber logo also designed the original tango lettering in natural succession. It has since become a definitive cultural asset of the tango world.
More recently, the painter and draughtsman has turned to nude painting just in time, like Tomi Ungerer. And the older the painters get, the more beautiful their curves become.
Tango - a homage
Beatrice Hasler
Beatrice Hasler is an encaustic artist, founding member of the Swiss Tango Club and the first important painter in the history of tango. She works with the latest tempera technique, modern painting and the oldest painting technique.
Encaustic painting reached its peak in the classical era of Greek art - long before the invention of oil painting. Knowledge of this technique was lost in the Middle Ages. The Swiss artist made a new start after the invention of the tango. This work from 1995 marks the beginning of Guy Respaud's tango story. Because of its luminosity, its durability and because of our love of curves (cooling curves).
Older examples of encaustic painting are Egyptian mummy portraits in Room 62 of the British Museum in London and in the National Museum in Cairo, as well as wall paintings from Pompeii and Herculaneum. More recent artefacts can be found in the private chambers of the Huber family. Because of its symbolic power, "Tango" by Beatrice Hasler is displayed in the entrance to the Tango Factory and also in the entrance to the IV. Act in the manual of tempering technique.
After this enchanting and historical introduction, we leave the brush to the French painter Guy Respaud. His tango story on the following 8 panels can be admired in the casino of the Tango Factory.
Elgersweier
Guy Respaud
Elgersweier, the southern part of Offenburg/Ortenau, the headquarters of the Huber company and the birthplace of Tango-Alemanno, was first mentioned in a document dated 3 April 1242, issued by the Bishop of Strasbourg, Berthold von Teck. 750 years later, the tango sets off on its global conquest of the laboratory world. First mentioned in an article in LaborPraxis in April 1988, the French painter Guy Respaud, who has lost his heart to the Ortenau and to the tango, followed the traces.
The first motif of his 8-part tango story shows the still, which is the most common in Ortenau. There are more beautiful stills, but none are more beautifully painted and this one has the advantage of being right in the centre of Elgersweier. Showing strangers the way to the local history museum and the realisation that we can distil. A prerequisite for understanding the cold process of tango.
The tango factory is surrounded by thousands of cherry trees. Raw material for a good 20 small distillers with distilling rights inherited from their fathers to produce Black Forest kirsch. If Black Forest gateau, a speciality of Aunt Anna's, doesn't at least clearly taste like it, it's an imitation. In Alemannic, cherries are pronounced Chriese. In Elgersweier, but only here, cherries are called "Tscherissili". Among the creepy Black Forest masks, the Tscherissili mask on the first panel is friendliness personified. A prerequisite for our international relations.
Under the patronage of the Tscherissili-Narrenzunft zu Klein Paris (the location designation for the 5th season), children in Elgersweier, but only these, are allowed to pick cherries (Chriese, Tscherissili) in the neighbour's field. If they don't tear off any branches and know the slogan: "Tscherissili dschore". This perpetuates the legend that we have French blood (cerises) and gypsy blood (dschore) in our veins. Coquetry, but also a prerequisite for our exports. After the industrialisation of Elgersweier, the tango is the last gypsy from Little Paris among the originals. With refrigerant in its veins. We will keep an eye on him globally.
Roots
Guy Respaud
The mill rattles by the rushing brook, clip-clop. With the second motif of the tango story, the painter Guy Respaud explored the sentimentality, the emotional, but also the technical roots. In 1879, an overshot mill wheel from the 16th century served as a dowry for the miller's daughter Johanna Derendinger from Niederschopfheim to found today's Huber Mill with the miller Emil Huber from Oberachern. Their descendants became master millers, but also master electricians and refrigeration engineers. The last mill wheel generated environmentally friendly electricity until the end of the 20th century.
The thermodynamic offshoot of the Huber family is less concerned with power generation than with effective utilisation and environmentally friendly refrigeration. Industrialisation on the Upper Rhine meant that the Black Forest trout and the North Sea salmon no longer met alive. That has changed. Huber's first contribution to protecting the waters is the Rotostat. It was awarded a federal patent and the Baden-Württemberg Innovation Prize. According to its intended use, the Rotostat is a workstation for rotary evaporators. Historically, it is a Trojan horse. Unnoticed by later pursuers, it is the thermodynamic ancestor of the tango. The rotostat consumes half the energy and no water at all. The subsequent development of the Tango has meant that water-cooled Unistats and Unichillers consume only 1/3 of the cooling water of conventional chillers.
The unspeakably favoured "environmentally friendly technology" is a premature claim because nature has not yet provided all the answers. Whether the snow on Mount Kilimanjaro will soon be yesterday's snow is a very high-hanging question for our significance. However, it can be proven that the voluntary early phase-out of CFCs at the tango factory and the development of energy-saving processes are beneficial to environmental compatibility. Inventiveness and quality from the Black Forest on the way from the cuckoo clock to the tango alemanno is sentimentality and coquetry. But the painter has hit the mark. The tango has not sinned against the hole in the ozone layer and the tango nuevo is the leader of the "greens" among the thermostats. The first with natural refrigerant. The environmental compatibility, the dignity of the tango is unimpeachable.
Tango Querido
Guy Respaud
Thermodynamics and microelectronics - it takes two to tango. The second law of tango philosophy dictates that it takes two to tango. Why is tango called tango? The tango is the dance that reaches the set point the fastest with the greatest precision... five, six, seven and stand!
Conservative technique has evolved in the same way as the first bandoneon with three buttons has evolved. Nothing has changed in terms of the beat or the method. Conservative temperament technology has not changed with the many buttons of microelectronics alone. It was the tango with its small mass and its own thermodynamics that got things moving. The tango can make the best controller sweat and only the best controller can bring the tango to a standstill at the set point.
Guy Respaud, who doesn't shy away from any detail, has, out of pure intuition, hit the exact detail of the tango that makes the difference to conventional technique. The painter could not have explained the prerequisite for the precision and reaction of the tango and the ambitions of the tango inventors any better. This element also conceals the whole secret of why the tango does not steam and smell. On the dance floor, it's a question of deodorant. On the lab bench or underneath it is not just a question of thermal oil (available from Huber Oil) but of technology that prevents odours and the evaporation of expensive liquid in the first place.
It's not just technology lovers, but also cost calculators and bean counters who hold the tango close to their hearts. The tango is passion and rebellion against existing conditions. In rebellion against the existing conditions, Tango and the large Unistats have overcome the handicaps and compromises, the awkwardness of conventional temperature control technology.
Fire and ice- something elementary
Guy Respaud
For a warm place below minus one hundred degrees, the grapes hang pretty high, which is why things can get thermodynamically hot at the coldest point in the Ortenau. The painter Guy Respaud has X-ray eyes and a brushstroke like a modern colour printer. Above all, he has a feel for history and an eye for the elemental. "Fire and Ice" hints at why his heart beats for the tango. Why he has placed the heart of the tango with all its essential elements at the centre: pump, gas separator, evaporator, high-temperature cooler, slide valve, heat sink. Cool. Astor Piazolla's score between penguin and fire salamander ranges from deep tones to hot feelings.
From the distance of the painter, the Offenburg witch is a hint that the tango is an Offenburger, from the Ortenau region. In the family tree of thermostats, this is an important point of differentiation from the competition. The lowest temperature we can remember in Offenburg was minus 20°C, where frozen chickens feel reasonably comfortable. The absolute zero point of the Unistats is a hundred degrees lower, at minus 120°C. On the other hand, all hell breaks loose between 300 and 400°C, as the Offenburg witch shows.
Before the global spread of the tango and the large unistats, the General Tempering Technology Association was a dormant organisation. Tempered between minus 80 and 300°C using conservative methods. Now there is excitement above and below. The Cherissili mask on the first panel of the tango story smiles at this.
Genetic Roots
Guy Respaud
The painter Guy Respaud is the first person to have seen the rainbow over the Kinzig from an acute angle. He thus intuitively hit the limiting curve of the refrigerant in the h, log p diagram, with which the tango achieves the best results. The border between Ortenberg and Elgersweier is the Kinzig, and Ortenberg Castle hovers above it all.
According to the philosopher Helmut F. Spinner, the S-shaped Kinzig arch in the coat of arms of Elgersweier should stand for Spinner on the first panel. According to the Ortenbergers, the Kinzig was supposed to protect beauties from being wooed away. This could not prevent the co-founder of the later tango factory from co-founding the thermodynamic offshoot of the Huber family. According to the painter, the Kinzigbogen is designed to emotionally connect the thermodynamic and historical landmarks of the Ortenau region. In doing so, he has subtly struck the biological root of the tango factory.
It takes two to tango. The second law of tango philosophy dictates that it takes two to tango. And according to autodidactic experience, this is also a prerequisite for starting a family that can not only invent tango, but also propagate it. Ortenberg Castle, originally designed as a backdrop for big dreams, is now even used for weddings. Although the consequences are as unpredictable as ever. The tango-infected co-founder of the later Tango Factory did not live to see the fruits of her labour. But the good spirit hovers over everything. Like the rainbow over the Kinzig.
Thermodynamics
Guy Respaud
Art is beautiful, but it's a lot of work (Karl Valentin). The painter worked on the tango story day and night for nine months. His longest pregnancy. In the meantime, the weekly report no. 103 on cogwheel gears has become a work of art in slanted standard typeface. Guy Respaud is a perfectionist and visionary, as the next (last) panel in the gallery shows, but also a historian and as such is against the gradual disappearance of things when painting.
Let's build a tango. It's not that simple. The savvy party animal will not mistake van Gogh for the centre forward of the Dutch football team, but thermodynamics is not part of education (Schwanitz). "I've never understood the second law of thermodynamics". Everyone slaps their thighs and cheers "me neither". No wonder so many are travelling with half-truths. According to the general idea of conservative temperature control technology, the most accurate controller should automatically produce the best thermostat. We can leave it at that. But the tango would not have come about in this way. The optimism that "I can do what Huber can do" is deceptive. The painter has unearthed the insignia and elementary antiques of tango prehistory and placed them around the nest. This goes back to the judgements of the Bavarian state government and the state government of Baden-Württemberg and extends into the private sphere.
The party animal in the left-hand corner, now buried under magnolias, is actually Otto the dog. Guardian of the original tango factory. Actually Gordy von der Burg Neu Windeck. From the line of Exeter. As old as the Queen's Mum by dog years, but not a grey hair in sight. As first generation Tangoclub members can confirm. The Offenburg shopkeepers in the pedestrian zone know Otto (Gordy) as the dog who carried his own lead and harness (in his mouth). They should be able to, must want to be allowed to.
The clutch of eggs at the bottom of this panel represents the second generation of the tango factory. Now hatched and ready to give wings to the tango.
Plug and play
Guy Respaud
All people are equal before the law of nature, but not all thermostats. Seen from below, from the bath, the general thermostating technique, how it stirs and rows, is the same. With one exception. The microelectronics of the Huber thermostats are based on the electronics kit that came out of the cold in 1979. From Huber and not from the self-proclaimed inventors of microelectronics. From which the 5th main theorem of the tango philosophy was later derived: Plug & Play - we can fix anything. On the other side of the world or five minutes away from the nearest workshop: the advantage of interchangeable plug-in technology is priceless. In any position, at any height and at any time.
The penultimate motif of G. Respaud's tango story leaves the tango to its own devices. Its microelectronics is a story of its own, without comparison (cf. second gallery "konkretes"). This panel refers to the general condition, but also to the small decisive difference.
The new polystat controller from 2003, a masterpiece of plug & play technology, embraces everything except the Tango, which is called Huber. Just as the French painter foresaw from the perspective of Jules Verne. Guy Respaud has discovered that the octopus has a brain in its belly. It cannot be denied that in 1979 the decision in favour of Plug & Play technology was not only made from the brain, but also from the gut.
Big eyes
Guy Respaud
The former polystat controller, the smallest controller in general temperature control technology, has dominated the largest armada of conventional thermostats since 2003, sailing away from all others. There seemed to be only one thing the pursuers could do about it: larger display windows to distract a little from the exclusive Plug & Play technology.
The Ministat-Unistat-Tango developers could not let this stand. In 2008, the big eyes of the Compatible Control thermostats promptly have a screen almost as big as the Tango, and only Ingrid Bergmann's eyes are more beautiful.
Excitement in the camp of the persecutors (you're getting on my nerves, kid) and especially in the camp of the supporters. Fright and delight. Guy Respaud, who had long foreseen all of this, created a monument to Plug & Play technology and himself in the very first rapture. It is swarming with friendly little animals and the pretty orchid embraces everything that is called Huber and has big eyes, apart from the tango. Thanks for the flowers Guy Respaud!
Ice age
Fritz Bleichert
Belief in the tango can move icebergs and the artists Vera Eisberg (four stops further on) and Fritz Bleichert can melt icebergs with their thoughts and colours*. Imagination is something that many people cannot even imagine. The coldest point in the universe is the Bose-Einstein condensate. The coldest point in Ortenau is the tango factory. The temperature here is minus 120 °C. It was in this environment that the Ortenau artist Fritz Bleichert created the woodcut "Ice Age". Because he can already imagine the next cooling period in the face of global warming and beyond. Abstract, of course, and the deeper the Huber. As the second gallery "konkretes" unmistakably shows, it all began in the imagination.
*) The artist, Fritz Bleichert, can also melt the hearts of the proudest women and even aluminium, and in his capacity as a universal genius he can transform sophisticated music into form and colour. You have to see it.
Water and ice
Eberhard Stefani
"Water and Ice" by Eberhard Stefani and "Fire and Ice" (Elementary) by Guy Respaud serve the second act in the temperature control technology handbook as an overture to the subject of refrigeration technology and energy. It is very obvious that the majority of German specialist refrigeration companies are up to a penguin, a polar bear or at least a snow crystal. But all this has little to do with the tango. The tango is more than the sum of its details and more than ordinary refrigeration technology.
Water and Ice was commissioned by Eberhard Stefani for a milestone birthday and is a nod to the fence post. Daddy Cool is an Aquarius. Fits. The members of the HochdasBein dance club, not the least among the roots of tango alemanno, are of the opinion that there are other important things besides tango. But the fact remains: the international tango club is our highest authority.
Filetes: We owe the following two pictures, framed in beautiful filetes, to the 2002 tango calendar, published by Boletin del Tango in collaboration with Edition Graph Druckula (the legend lives on). "In the beginning, the filetes were used to decorate horse-drawn carts and simple lorries. The fruit and vegetable merchant, the dairyman, the water carrier, they all had their carts painted. They made a kind of painted frame, the filetes, as a decoration, put some flowers on the surfaces and on the large side surfaces there was often a popular saying, often a quote from a tango text or the title of a tango. It was very common to find dialect texts inside the filetes, a refrain from a song, a little piece of wisdom, a short joke, or sometimes even sayings of dubious quality". (Jorge Muscia, Boletin del Tango No.25)
Mama, do you see me?
Graph Druckula
Jorge Virulazo, the only one of his famous father's five sons to carry on the tango tradition. Here he gives a performance in front of his mum and relatives with Yésica Améndola, 12, whom he trained. Masters don't fall from the sky. This eloquent motif goes some way to explaining why we attach great importance to youth work and why we enjoy it so much. The six master refrigeration technicians at the Tango factory have trained more than 80 refrigeration technicians and have twice won first prize in the state.
No Need to Hurry, It's Not a Waltz!
Graph Druckula
In dubio pro tango. The tango alemanno process - the tango aleman, as it is known in Spanish - is designed for speed but also to conserve resources. Described in detail in the tempering technique manual. Tango, which only goes to the heart, is energetically more favourable than waltz and disco fox, which go to the balance, the pump and the calves. The optimistic image of the couple on the pza. Dorrego is a hint that the Tango Argentino is also a method that conserves resources.
No corras, el tiempo no se acaba. Why hurry, time is not running out.
Eternity lasts the longest
Vera Eisberg
They have sworn eternal love for tango and have clearly done well with it. The tango club sends its regards. Vera Eisberg's tango couple show in a self-explanatory way that tango promises reliability and longevity and saves energy in the long term. Because it follows its own rules and gets down to business much faster than others. Reaction calorimetry, which also has no time to waste, sends its regards. Using the example of combinatorial chemistry (planned coincidence), "Bild der Wissenschaft" has provided the explanation that the time factor is of existential importance for the jewel thief as well as for the pharmaceutical industry.
Tempo needs tango. It is now (planned coincidence) a worldwide reality that the tango and the large unistats are of existential importance for combinatorial chemistry as well as for reaction calorimetry. Forever lasts the longest and time never ends. However, under the influence of Tango, the time of conventional temperature control technology for higher tasks is finally over.
Tango Fuego
Manfred Wegel
Tempo needs tango. With this message on his right and left thigh, particularly beautiful to look at in the bends, Friedrich (Friedi), the neighbouring boy from Elgersweier, who advertises the speed of the tango, has already become Baden-Württemberg champion eight times and German champion five times. As a 6-year-old with 50 cbcm and as a 13-year-old with 250 cbcm. A chair of fire. It should be noted, however, that the Huber company does not provide the motorbike, a hot item, but the protective suit. Safety first.
The tango couple in the Offenburg riding arena is almost as fast as Friedi and visibly faster than the artist's camera, because the couple's protective suits are of lightweight construction. The fire of Tango Fuego is not intended to advertise the voluntary fire brigade, but rather the energy-saving measures of modern clothing technology and modern temperature control technology. One pound of ball gown equals one pound of jewellery. Fitting clothing saves fabric and also indirectly reduces unwanted weight (ballast).
The lightness of the tango and the large masses of conventional tempering technique, nothing but ballast, have kept tango followers at a distance for twenty years. You shouldn't get too close. It can take hours to reach low temperatures with an ordinary thermostat. In contrast, with the Tango or a larger Unistat, which have often become world champions with five hundred to one thousand K/h *), there is often only enough time for a cup of tea.
The tango couples of Graph Druckula and Vera Eisberg (above) stand for energetically economical dance technique. But it also depends on the tempo. The Baden revolution in tango has produced a temperamental technique that achieves maximum speed with minimum energy expenditure. And the Friedrich drives away from everyone (Offenburger Tageblatt).
*) A bit much for Ferrari & Co. But we don't calculate in kilometres, but in Kelvin per hour.
Tango, up close
Gertraud Bleyh
In a waltz, against the centrifugal force, a newspaper should just fit in between. In Gertraud Bleyh's tango, nothing fits between them because of the force of attraction. The deviation could not be smaller.
Ortenau artists are dedicated to finding the reason for the wafer-thin gap in the tango. The distance between the target value and the actual value in the Tango Aleman is perhaps a hundredth of a degree. It doesn't get any thinner than that. International relations are comparably close. The attraction of the tango to temperature-dependent living creatures in the laboratory is unbroken.
The attraction of the tango to the visual arts is self-explanatory. The most important thing in these morally weak times is to arouse enthusiasm (Picasso). The enthusiasm of the tango club and the supernatural customer loyalty to the tango factory are of course also rooted in the centrifugal force, in the flight movements of neglected customers who are endlessly pursued with newly painted but old-fashioned "novelties".
Tell me how you tango and I'll tell you what kind you are. Kirk Douglas snatched the women, John Wayne carried them like packages, and James Steward fiddled with them like he was looking for the instruction manual. The Tango rips the actual value to the target value faster than anyone else, but treats its customers like raw eggs at every turn, with every movement. There is absolutely no fiddling about with the settings. Self-explanatory, intuitive user guidance with touchscreen and graphic functions allows you to familiarise yourself with the Tango even without an instruction manual.
Self-explanatory about the attraction of the artist: Gertraud Bleyh
Made for the Tango from head to toe
Guy Respaud and Marlene Dietrich
For obvious reasons, we're all about the tango from head to toe. And unistats and unichillers. That's our world. And polystat and ministat. And nothing else. Marlene Dietrich was the first to sing it and Guy Respaud was the first to paint it. The transparent nylon-coated legs of "Cécilia" show the painter's keen eye and precise hand. No photography, every thread is real. Marlene Dietrich loved to demonstrate the miracle of chemistry (the miracle of the DuPont company). Every girl on the Rio de la Plata and the Kinzig has a pair of them or at least a close friend who raves about them.
The DuPont company is not the only one that raves about tango. Virtually all chemical and pharmaceutical companies are represented in the international tango club.
"Cécilia" is painted by Guy Respaud after a design by Ineke Stutvoet. The tango-infected photographer followed the tango couple on the flag of the tango club for six months.
Petite Fleur
Doris Michel
The little flower by Doris A. Michel is an allusion, because "Petite Fleur", played on the clarinet by Sidney Bechet, is a tango. "Petite Fleur", played by Benedikt Huber on the Bb clarinet, can be heard alternating with Jess Haberer and the Stadtkapelle Offenburg (it takes two to tango) in the telephone queue of the Tango Factory. The little tango "Petite Fleur", which saw the light of day on the occasion of the company's 40th anniversary, is above all a reference to the women in the history of tango.
The Lucerne artist is married to the first Swiss tango missionary Fritz Michel, who was the first to cross the Rubicon (near Basel) with the tango in 1988. According to Mark Twain, without women, humanity would be rare, very rare, and without the influence of women like Doris A. Michel, the tango would also be very rare.
It's good to have alternatives
Tomi Ungerer
"That's the difference", says the cat to the dog, "I would never touch dog food". Offenburg publisher Peter Reiff has given Tomi Ungerer's typically telling drawing the best possible title: "It's good to have alternatives"
There is no better way to describe why the Tango Club is comparatively well catered for. It's good when researchers and lab technicians in need of temperature have alternatives. In dubio pro tango, but the Tango Club does not live from tango alone, but from the exclusive comfort of its members being able to choose between the new technology of Tango Nuevo and the conservative (refined) temperature control technology of Ministats. That is the difference. The Tango factory does not live from Tango alone, but from the many thousands of Polystat, Ministat, Unistat and Unichiller users and sympathisers around the globe who pro domo ensure that the sun never sets on the Tango world. It may stay that way.
Dr h. c. Tomi Ungerer is regarded as one of the most important contemporary artists in his field. He is an Officer of the Legion of Honour, recipient of the Federal Cross of Merit, Commandeur of the "Ordre des Arts et des Lettres" and is one of the "500 most influential people in the world".
The Tango factory is considered one of the most influential thermostat manufacturers in the world, has been awarded the Dr Rudolf Eberle Prize and, following the debut of the little tango "Petite Fleur", is one of the TOP 100, the hundred most innovative companies in the German SME sector.
Tango infection
Helga, Loretta, KiK and GO
For the general, conservative temperament technique, the tango infection is a clinical picture, but one that makes the tango club feel good. This coincides with the worldwide euphoria in the salons of Tango Argentino, which has long since spread to Ortenau. Conversely, this has not harmed the spread of Tango Alemanno, as the risk of infection is also quite high on the fringes of the tango club. Alexandra Baumann-Krantz, editor "Gallery Ortenau". (always know what's going on), infected and ignited by Silke Beba in the "KiK", has amusingly explained the course of a tango infection.
But: "You wouldn't believe how hopeless it is when you're looking for a man to dance the tango with"... This must also have been the reason why the Tango Alemanno only appeared on the thermostats' parquet floor a hundred years after the Tango Argentino. Like the fox in the henhouse, because until then the general rule in the industry was "no matter what is played, I dance the waltz". That has changed. You can find the reason for this in the second gallery "konkretes". If you ever have time...
The revolution of the Tango Aleman
Paul Flora
The Tango Aleman revolution is a thermodynamic one. But it has also long since become an emotional one. The tango club is our highest authority, because tango club members really are king. On the occasion of Huber's 40th anniversary, 2500 visitors from the Ortenau region were infected by the imperial weather and turned the open day into a public festival. People think back fondly. "I thought of you when the Tango Notturno..." sings Pola Negri, and Dr Fliedner, former head of culture for the city of Offenburg, immediately thought of us when he came across the drawing "Tango Notturno" by the famous Tyrolean artist Paul Flora. Signed by hand. Impossible to give something like this away without being infected.
The tango couple
Peter Link
The tango couple of the well-known Offenburg photo artist Peter Link is one of his most beautiful contortions. He has documented in a tangible but aesthetically perfect way that the tango infection is a healthy disease.
The tango continues to spread. Since 1996 it has been a "cultural asset of the nation" in Argentina and in 1998 the Buenos Aires City Council passed a law stating that the tango should be "protected, preserved and spread". This is also the concern of Offenburg's local council, which in May 2004 called on the king of voices and the town band to proclaim the second main sentence of the tango philosophy "it takes two to tango". Tango has been a World Heritage Site since 2009 and the little tango "Petite Fleur" has been causing a new stir ever since.
Thermodynamic works of art
art@huber
You have to mistrust intentions, even good ones, but especially your own (Johannes Gross). The Tango Club does not live solely from fine art as found in museums, but from thermodynamic works of art created in the studios of the Tango Factory. Visitors to this gallery have already come up with the idea that they are being seduced along this surreptitious route from the fine art of the painters ("abstract") to the fine art of the Ministat-Unistat tango makers ("concrete"). You are right. Now that you are in this position, relax. It will be exciting.
The thermodynamic-hydraulic cardiovascular system of the Tango is a work of art crafted by local refrigeration engineers and stainless steel welders. The following objects from the studios of the Ministat-Unistat-Tango builders are recognised works of art in thermodynamics and microelectronics. This gallery only shows pieces of art that have not been invented and built anywhere else in the world in this form and technology.
Contrary to the usual conventions of the fine arts, which attach great importance to unique pieces, and because we also have to make a living, most of the objects can be found in their thousands*) in the better families of the laboratory world. There are around ten thousand copies of the Ministat alone, the baby of the refrigerated thermostats. Ministat, Tango and the large Unistats are probably better known than the Huber company.
*) approx. 100,000, as of 2010
According to legends (Wikipedia), the famous Black Forest kirsch was first distilled in Elgersweier (first gallery). The schnapps kettle is the most common distillation apparatus in the Ortenau region. The distillation apparatus most commonly used in research and therefore also in the Tango Club is the rotary evaporator. Originally operated with an electric heating bath, a water-cooled condenser and a water jet pump. This, driven by drinking water and with a direct outlet into the sewage system, contributed over decades to the fact that North Sea salmon and Black Forest trout no longer met alive.
The ROTOSTAT is Huber's first contribution to water conservation. A federal patent and winner of the Baden-Württemberg Innovation Award. The only thermostat that regulates and evacuates and also heats and cools at the same time, because both are required simultaneously for distillation. According to its intended use, the rotostat is a workstation for rotary evaporators. Historically, it is a Trojan horse. Unnoticed by later followers, it is the thermodynamic ancestor of the tango.
Originally, it is also the microelectronic ancestor of the Tango. Six months after the award ceremony, the Offenburg Technology Park is founded, and one of the first new founders at the TPO receives one of his first orders to develop the first microprocessor from the Huber company (Z80) for the rotostat.
Thermodynamics and microelectronics - in that order - it takes two to tango. 20 years later, the Offenburger Tageblatt "A funding concept with resounding success".
Sufficiently advanced technology can no longer be distinguished from magic (Arthur C. Clarke). In fact, various origins of the Huber tempering technique are so subtle that competitors often only cry out years later.
Cui bono, for whose benefit? The rotostat, the previous feat, triggered the tango thermodynamically and, because it needed it itself, also helped the tango to become today's microelectronics. Unfortunately, the run on the tango has led to a slower reproduction of the rotostat. Which you can laugh about (because of the success of the tango) or cry about. But the solution is coming. The Rotostat is getting something back, namely the best microelectronics and the most convenient operation imaginable.
So the final Rotostat waits like a rabbit in a top hat, while the ROTACOOL gives a taste of space and room economy. The original Rotostat won an award because of its capabilities and because it takes up no extra space at all, including all its refinements. Not completely invisible, but an excellent example of extreme power density (watts/cbm), which is almost infinite. To bridge the gap and as a consolation for patient Rotostat fans, this feature has been carried forward in advance by the Rotacool.
The ROTACOOL is a co-product of Heidolph (for the naming) and Huber (for technology and design). The most original cooling device for rotary evaporators up to 3-litre flasks. With an output of 450 watts and hardly noticeable, because as you can see after clicking on the picture, the additional space requirement is zero. Heidolph and many customers had not expected this. However, the inventors of the Ministat-Unistat-Rotostat-Tango do not consider it disreputable to be asked for miracles.
In Baden, where milk and honey flow but no oil, we live mainly from saving energy. But we also live on air and love and a good drop of wine. In vino veritas... Alcohol is healthiest in wine.
In the Ortenau region around Offenburg, where legend has it that babies are born with tartar in their stomachs, and in Alsace around Colmar and Riquewihr, you will find the oldest Roman wine-growing regions and the oldest applications of early tango technology. In the centre of it all is the tango factory, where tango alemanno has been cultivated since the end of the 20th century. In tango veritas, but only after relevant experience had been gathered from the Baden-Alsatian viticulture and brandy distillery. The first wine cooler from the Huber company was used by the Fessenbach winegrowers' co-operative to precipitate tartar at minus 4 degrees Celsius. This is also the optimum temperature at which fuselage substances are filtered out when refining spirits. Huber distillate coolers in France use the same process to refine perfume, which of course brings us back to luxury foods. In small quantities. The first large Huber distillate cooler was used by the Weiss company in Gutach to cool large quantities to minus 4 degrees C and reheat them to bottling temperature, which others had already been able to do before. With electric, gas or oil heating. A reason to get involved?
We have always intervened where there is something to be gained thermodynamically or even just energetically (we have also intervened to close the hole in the ozone layer). Whether the snow on Mount Kilimanjaro will soon be yesterday's snow is a very high hanging question for our significance. However, it can be proven that the voluntary early phase-out of CFCs in the tango factory (hole in the ozone layer) and the development of energy-saving processes are beneficial to environmental compatibility (greenhouse effect). The distillate cooler of the early Tango technology, with refrigeration heat pump and heat recovery, consumes 1/10 of the energy of the conventional method.
In tango veritas... The thermodynamics resulting from the wine and brandy coolers, as well as the rotostat, prove that the tango is not from bad parents.
Huber thermostats are faster than others, but this is only possible with the fastest controller. The electronic masterpiece of Huber thermostats and chillers is the Plug&Play technology. Exclusive since 1980, three to four heads for large families with 20 to 50 different members. In 2003, the masterpiece of this idea led to 300 completely different, small and large (namely all conventional) Compatible Control thermostats and Unichillers being controlled by a single, identical, interchangeable microelectronics. In three versions, simple, convenient and dialogue-capable, with different levels of comfort, which can be interchanged at any time. No fuss and no downtime, no fitter and no significant costs. Two or three simple steps. If you press on it with your mouse hereyou can best see what you should believe.
There is no question that the competitors, who all come from this side, also have excellent controllers. With foolproof operation. However, the electronics kit that came in from the cold (at least you can say that) is priceless. Five minutes to the nearest workshop or the end of the world. For a quarter of a century with a 3-year guarantee (so as not to jeopardise quality and durability).
The latest feat, and therefore the real masterpiece of Plug&Play technology, combines the old world of conventional thermostats with the new world of Tango at the critical point of user guidance. At the end of this biggest operation in Ministat-Unistat Tango history, the entire Huber fleet, with a few exceptions of simple chillers, will be controlled by only two physically different controllers. Compatible Control for the Old World and Unistat Control (which is also a Compatible Control) for the New World of Unistats. Plug&Play and according to the same rules for the pilots who have to work with it day after day. And for the children who come tomorrow and don't have time to learn.
Historically speaking, the polystat regulator from 2003 is only a temporary highlight of the exclusive Plug & Play technology. Initially, it is also a provocation.
The smallest controller in general temperature control technology dominates the largest armada of conventional thermostats, which has sailed away from all others. There seemed to be only one thing the pursuers could do about it: larger display windows that would give the tiny polystat controller a run for its money.
When the competition retreats, it retreats. The Ministat-Unistat Tango developers only backed off in order to be able to take a better run-up. In 2008, the big eyes of the Compatible Control thermostats at the epicentre under the Huber exhibition tower promptly caused a stir, because the latest feat has a screen almost as big as the Tango, and only Ingrid Bergmann's eyes are more beautiful. Excitement in the camp of the persecutors (you're getting on my nerves kid) and especially in the camp of the supporters. A dream in seven languages that frightened some and delighted others.
Nobody can look up a staircase like Rhett Butler (Clark Gable), but never before could you read so much out of the eyes of an ordinary thermostat. The little controller with the big eye was the last trick, but the next one follows immediately, because the new Compatible Control Pilot literally jumps out at us to bring the little tango "Petite Fleur" (at the end of the gallery) to life.
Thermodynamics and microelectronics - it takes two to tango. It wouldn't have been a tango the other way round. The second law of tango philosophy dictates that it takes two to tango. It does not dictate that thermodynamics should be more important than electronics. But the best controller does not make a winner out of a lame duck. If the lady doesn't want to or can't, the best tango dancer can want what he wants. On the other hand, the best thermodynamics and the most ingenious refrigeration technology cannot show what it can do if the leadership is asleep.
The Tango has become the fox in the henhouse because it is x times faster for thermodynamic reasons, and of course it also needs to be controlled x times faster. The Unistat Control unit of the Tango Nuevo not only regulates many more (internal) temperatures than others, but also, for example, stepper motors for high-temperature cooling, cooling water, refrigerant pressures and, more recently, pump pressure. These are tasks that are not found at all in conventional technology and are few and far between in the lagging movement to catch up with the tango. On the other hand, the other side has not failed to find its Achilles' heel in operation. Petty malice maintains enmity. That's the end of this theatre.
When the grumbling reached the good Lord, he decreed that young blessed people should be optionally equipped with keyboards instead of harps (from Traxler's short stories) and, by decision of the Swiss Tango Club in Spiez (the Tango Club is our highest authority), the Tango Nuevo at the end of the gallery was given the same easy-to-use Compatible Control thermostats (above) and Unichillers. With rotary encoder and three buttons. But also a touchscreen with graphic functions and online help. Not an option, but standard for the planned eternity.
And the Tangoclub saw that it was good - creation story. It's never good enough, but after the biggest operation in Tango history, anyone who knows the Ministat or the Tango will be able to operate any other Huber thermostat or Unichiller intuitively straight away. Of course, the Tango is never finished. The endless possibilities of the screen alone will keep the software people at the Tango factory and many Tango fans who depend on it awake at night.
The feat of the original Ministat from 1976 goes back to the Nordic cool wish of the Eppendorf company: "please half as big" (as others). The first Ministat on a beer mat was created that same evening. This refrigeration dwarf proves that the Huber company, which also builds the largest refrigerated circulators, once started out very small.
The Ministat from 1981 was a feat of extreme power density that had never been equalled (by others) before or since. Everybody's darling. Whoever has the Ministat keeps it ... always.
After a quarter of a century of cool reenactments, in 2003 the top dog of the miniatures comes in velvety matt blasted stainless steel and with two big brothers. Each is the smallest (and the finest) in its class. Aesthetics at work: the feat of the all-stainless steel miniature is designed for eternity and for delicate laboratory fingers. You only need to run your cleaning cloth or bare hand over the edge of the kettle to believe it.
Enthusiastically received by old owners and newcomers alike, the three Ministats have literally broken down open doors. The only thing missing was that the Ministat could be controlled with the same controller as all other Compatible Control thermostats.
Voilá: At Analytica 2008, the all-stainless-steel Ministats come with the masterpiece of Plug&Play technology. Let's hear it!
A thermostat does not have to be able to do a somersault. That would amount to over-engineering. Nevertheless, it should have something special if it wants to be called Huber.
The unique flexibility of the Tango makes it possible, for example, to control the temperature of a closed system on even-numbered days and an open bath of any size on odd-numbered days. An impossibility for conservative technology, which, with the notable exception of the Variostat, has nothing like this to offer.
A bathroom to suit the task at hand for every occasion. Today like this, tomorrow like this. Extending baths that are too small in compact thermostats can lead to the expense of a ship's hoist. To avoid this, the exotically built Variostat is the only conventional bath thermostat with a loose bath tank. Although it is only one of the options in the Huber range and must be hushed up by the other side because of its uniqueness, it will probably remain the case that the Tango and the large Unistats for large capacities and the Variostat for small capacities are the experts for any bath.
With the new Compatible Control on its nose, with a screen and graphics right in the centre of its face, the Variostat will continue to lead the way in the future, in the interests of its inventors and, above all, its users.
He feared the tango above him and the ministat below him and nothing else in the world. He was the godfather of the tango and gave his name to the exclusive principle of the unistate. There was nothing better. Everything that could be imagined to improve the classic Unistat has been measured against it. It was also the inspiration for the all-stainless steel Ministat and thus dug its own grave. For the first time, the Ministat has managed to do what none of its countless pursuers have managed to do for 27 years: to beat the Unistat technically and surpass it in terms of power density. This means that the first famous Huber veteran, a first-class draught horse, could be taken out of circulation (the boy is alive, the horse is dead - Heinz Erhard). No nostalgia: the Unistat cc is taken out of the line of fire, but built in ambush until the last Unistat fan has succumbed to the more beautiful Ministat.
A faithful defender of the classical unistat (the godfather) from the critical faction in the tango club (constructively speaking) has temporarily succumbed to the impression that various users have the tango because it is so beautiful (the tango). A dubious compliment, when legions of both camps are desperately endeavouring to keep the conventional business and not leave it to the other side.
"What can Sigismund do about it...", what can the tango do about being so beautiful? Lab technicians who don't have a Lamborghini in their yard don't have the Tango because it's so beautiful, but because a classic thermostat is technically inferior and would be more expensive than cheaper with a lot of peripherals. If there are alternatives, you should make use of them. In any case, nobody at Huber is thinking of devaluing classic technology. On the contrary. According to the Tango Factory's species protection agreement, all findings from Tango development are also evaluated and utilised for their usefulness for the Unichillers and for the conventional technology of the Compatible Control thermostats. The latest example:
Six months before the Tango Nuevo is ready to be served, all Compatible Control thermostats are equipped with adjustable pumps. In dubio pro Tango, but even if more and more super high-tech top models from the alliance of Tango followers will soon be able to operate height-adjustable fountains, ordinary Huber thermostats have long been able to regulate the set pressure (and not just the speed).
The Ministat-Unistat tango factory is not a beauty farm, but is committed to technology. It is important to be informed and not to confuse Ministat and Tango and not ordinary and Huber thermostats. Finally, the Manual of temperature control technology was written for this purpose.
The ball is round so that it can move in three dimensions. The record is round so that it can rotate. Or so the world believed until 1978, when the first record in a square shape was released. The title: It takes two to tango.
A thermostat is a thermostat because it only has to be a thermostat. Or so the world believed until the first article about the tango appeared in 1988. In rectangular form. The title: New temperature control system shows progress in thermodynamics.
The tango makers are cooling specialists because everyone knows the direction upwards. Why bother, you can get down from 300 or 400 degrees on your own according to the 2nd law of thermodynamics. Or so the world believed until the first high-temperature unistat appeared in 2000. In round form. The title: CC400.
Because it is a Compatible Control Thermostat based on the exclusive Plug & Play principle and can heat up to 400°C, but can also cool intelligently. No artificial architecture to win a beauty prize, but to tidy up what the heating specialists had overlooked. The trick of the CC400 is its ability to cool in a controlled manner without wasting cooling water, without stinking and without behaving like a steam engine. That's what went down best. And of course the elegant shape. Made of stainless steel. Our work should be elegant, useful and well designed. Otherwise it would have no place in this gallery.
The deeper the Huber. The Tango factory has been building the smallest refrigerated circulator in the world for a quarter of a century and the largest for 10 years, which can weigh up to 4 tonnes. Five kW of cooling capacity at -100 weighs more than a hundred kW at -5°C.
Brrr... (with 15 r...) has taken the business magazine "Hidden-Champions" as a teaser to reveal the secret of the Huber temperature control technology. A good title, because for a warm place below minus one hundred degrees, the stakes are pretty high. The tango factory's deep-freezing machines are among the most unstocked items in the laboratory, but what research needs down to minus 120 degrees, the tango factory builds with serene reliability, and hundreds of tango paramedics from the tango mission around the world ensure that no tango club member gets cold feet.
Ultimately, the feat of the large Unistats with two-stage compressors and two- and three-stage cascades is demonstrated by their ability to function for years on end. The refrigeration engineer is happy and satisfied when he has set a thermostatic expansion valve to half a degree (Chapter II, verse 2). But the thermostat league calculates in millikelvins, which makes ordinary refrigeration engineers shiver. The director and ensemble of the tango story have reinvented neither the wheel nor the spinning motion. They have just put the blinkers on differently. Which has made many neglected, temperature-challenged creatures feel good. In both abstract and concrete terms. And, of course, consistently according to the second law of tango philosophy: thermodynamics and microelectronics - it takes two to tango. The art of the tango results from the alternative details and a hundred "little things". In both disciplines. As tango master Kenny Gregson explains the importance of elementary details on his bagpipes: "If it weren't for this strange stick, as you say, this instrument would sound no better than an ordinary piano".
Tango fortissimo! The Tango Alemanno, as it was christened by Laborjournal to distinguish it from the Tango Argentino, is what it has always been, and yet everything is new, which is what many tango club members wanted. The Tango Nuevo, as it is to be called to differentiate it once again, will continue to be the benchmark for effective temperature control technology and environmentally friendly refrigeration.
Tempo needs Tango. Even among the "highly dynamic temperature control systems" that appeared ten years after the Tango, nothing has been faster. Meanwhile, the Tango is picking up speed once again. What has been promised by many for many years under the flowery term "adaptive control", the Tango Nuevo brings to the point much faster for the first time.
Finally, the Achilles heel identified by opponents, who were increasingly concerned about the usability of the Tango, has been closed. That is now a thing of the past. The Tango Nuevo and the new large Unistats have the same, much-praised simple operation of the Compatible Control thermostats and Unichillers. With rotary encoder and three buttons. But also, as decided by the Swiss Tango Club in Spiez, a touchscreen with graphic functions and online help. Double, but Ministat and Tango, Minichiller and even the largest Unistats and Unichillers follow the same rules. The ease with which children can operate thermostats can no longer be surpassed.
Safety first. Tango and the large Unistats are safety thermostats in themselves. We take it for granted that thermostats have to endeavour to control the temperature as precisely as possible. We take it as a compliment that conservative thermostats have become faster thanks to smaller baths following the global spread of Tango. Although this has brought with it the new problem of expansion. The tango doesn't care. The mastery of expansion is a well-known tango trick. The latest feat of the Tango Nuevo is the regulated pump, with which the pressure in front of sensitive equipment can be set and precisely maintained for the first time. Many glass reactors will be grateful.
A planned coincidence: the new Compatible Control with the big eye suddenly makes it possible to bring the little tango to life, and its name should ring a bell with unblunted tango fans: "Petite Fleur"... that's a tango!
Petite Fleur... Petite Tango... the little tango. Dreamed with my own eyes for years. A reference to Sidney Bechet, just as the Tango Nuevo is named after Astor Piazolla.
The Tango is originally the smallest cooling/heating thermostat among the Unistats, which all work according to the Tango principle and are praised, feared and persecuted as "highly dynamic temperature control systems". In Olympic terms, the Unistats have been amongst themselves for many years and are completely open in terms of performance. The performance below this has been the playground of the ministats and their pursuers until the appearance of the little Tango. Now, however, the box is rattling.
In 2008, the Huber company is 40 (young enough) and the Tango is 20 (old enough) and in the anniversary year, the little one was still making eyes at the Tango Club and flirting with the fact that he is not from bad parents. By all appearances, he will also honour the first principle of tango philosophy: Opus nostrum nobile esto, utile et bene factum. Our work should be noble, useful and well designed. What a coincidence: 6 weeks after the little tango's grand entrance at the ACHEMA in Frankfurt, the tango factory is one of the 100 most innovative companies in the German SME sector in 2009. Peter Huber Kältemaschinenbau scored particularly well in the climate of innovation. A nice compliment to the tango makers and above all to the international tango club, which has stirred up, driven and inspired the tango developers for 20 years.
This brings us to the provisional (!) end of this gallery of thermodynamic works of art. We are almost there, the manager proclaims cheerfully. The break-even point can already be seen on the horizon. The manager has not considered the peculiarity of the horizon, which recedes exactly by the step you take in its direction (Johannes Gross, notebook, last episode, last piece). Petite Fleur has turned out to be a pretty baby, but certainly not our last piece. We will continue.
