History

Setting up a specialized sales team.
Centrifugal and axial fans dedicated to the industrial, agricultural and naval sectors.

1916 - 2016: 100 years serving climate engineering professionals
At the end of 2015 VIM employed 180 people for a turnover of 50.4 million euros.

The company has more than 3,500 active installation clients in construction and HVAC, including large French groups, the main installer groups and regional independents.
Thus, tens of thousands of ventilation, air treatment and smoke extraction installations are carried out each year in France and Europe with VIM equipment.

Building on significant development, VIM is building its new 16,000 m head office².
More than 10 million euros are invested in buildings, industrial and logistics tools.

The first AHUs with rotary exchanger (CAD O Integral) developed by the VIM R&D team left the production lines in 2013.

At the end of 2000, the electrical equipment multinational ABB, then owner of VIM , sold the company to the Spanish group Soler & Palau (S&P), a pure player in the ventilation sector.

S&P, already present in the residential VMC and VMP market, is thus strengthening its position to become one of the leaders in France.

VIM complements its own ranges with those developed by S&P, in particular for axial fans, ventilation boxes and technical fans.

Founded in 1969, this company develops and manufactures single and then double flow VMC groups with exchanger for residential use. It will also market heat pumps and thermodynamic water heaters using extracted air in the 1980s following the second oil crisis.

The Aubergenville factory was permanently closed in 1989 and production transferred to Azay-le-Brûlé, birthplace of Aéroplast. The VIM organization will be ISO 9001 certified from 1995 and the production site ISO 14001 from 1998.

In 1985, VIM bought the series ventilation division of Jeunont Schneider and thus strengthened its expertise in professional kitchen ventilation.

In 1961 VIM carried out one of the first VMC installations in collective housing in the Tours de la Défense.

Following in particular the acquisition of Solyvent-Ventec in 1970 by the group, VIM 's commercial and then industrial activity was refocused on ventilation and smoke extraction of residential and non-residential buildings.

In 1936, VIM was bought by Svenska Fläktfabriken, a Swedish industrialist created in 1918 which would complete the French range with filtration, heating, humidification, air conditioning, dust removal and drying equipment.

VIM will remain under the Swedish flag (Fläkt / Asea) then Helvetico/Swedish (ABB) until 2000.

The factory is based in Aubergenville (78). It will shelter more than 25,000 m² covered, the manufacture of industrial fans, air handling units, air heaters, water batteries, metal VMC boxes, but also axial fans, ducts, accessories, etc.

At the beginning of the 1930s, VIM equipped several cinemas with air conditioning, including the Normandy on the Champs Elysées.
Many hospitals and department stores followed until 1940 when activity ceased and resumed after the war.

VIM Ventilation Industrielle et Minière was founded by Jules Beuzit and a central engineer Raymond Laponche to supply ventilation equipment to mines, heavy industry and later to ships.