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Spilling steam engine ready for shipment to Australia

Spilling: always on the team with its customers.

The Spilling employees do not just view themselves as a strong team within the company, these experts also build and retain a trustworthy relationship with their customers, which is at all times geared to sustainable success.

Whether it's processing a project, manufacturing or services – Spilling customers can rely fully on the extensive expertise of the Spilling and the personal commitment of each individual. So it's little wonder that so many companies have remained loyal to Spilling already for many years.

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Spilling uplifts innovations to corporate culture.

In the over 100 years of its history, Spilling has always remained a small business with family character. This also helps explain the strong motivation of the Spilling team. The employees identify themselves with the company and its unique products. They advance the further product development and work on meaningful additions at all times. Ultimately Spilling has always seen itself as an innovative company that takes its own independent technical route.

This comprises, besides the further development of the reciprocating engine to modern expansion machines, also the product line expansion to include single and multi-stage steam turbines. The result: a versatile steam power portfolio with efficient solutions for the most diverse range of industrial and municipal operators.

Spilling Worldwide

Spilling has been supplying sustainable energy systems all over the world since 1950. Spilling has successfully implemented countless projects with its customers on all continents.

Sustainability and environmental protection

And Spilling also assumes responsibility when its comes to the environment: The company contributes valuably to saving resources and reducing CO2 emissions with its products for decentral energy generation in the sector of combined heat and power plants, for converting biomass into electricity and for heat recovery.

Spilling - 130 years of successful company management

2020

Latest company project: Spilling enters into research on thermal energy storage. The project is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Economics.

2019

The Spilling steam compressor convinces in additional industrial sectors as a heat pump for providing process steam from low-pressure exhaust steam. The idea of steam recycling continues to gain momentum.

2018
With the Spilling steam compressor, the complete recycling of process steam is finally achieved. At a paper mill in Sweden, the Spilling product is put into operation in a closed cycle.

2016
The first steam compressor for the USA is delivered and commissioned.

2015

For the first time, an autarkic steam cycle is being implemented for the pilot plant of a pressurized fluidized bed drying system with a Spilling steam compressor. The leakage losses are compensated by condensate injection.

2014

The Spilling steam turbines have proven their worth and are now being successfully used in numerous applications in various sectors such as the chemical industry, steel industry, building materials industry, food industry and waste incineration.

2010

Spilling supplies steam turbines for ORC plants for the first time.

2007

Spilling gas expansion engines are increasingly conquering the industry and are now successfully used in numerous companies in the steel, chemical and mineral oil industries.

2006

A further milestone has been reached: Spilling can now also offer steam turbines for the conversion of waste heat into electricity. One of their outstanding features is their suitability for saturated steam operation.

1999

In all series of steam engines, Spilling is now focusing on the introduction of dry-running technology (oil-free steam).

From 1978

The Spilling engines are continuously further developed and are now also used internationally as natural gas expansion engines in the utility industry to exploit the pressure gradient between the gas transport pipeline and the consumer network.

1956

Spilling builds the first steam compressor, thus laying the foundation for future developments.

Since 1950

Spilling produces with the steam engine reliable combined heat and power plants, that are successfully used in over 50 countries around the world.

1945 to 1950

Spilling can quickly pick up speed again after the war and, with the Spilling modular steam engine, makes a name for itself as a flexible driving machine for generators and working machines.

1930 to 1945

Spilling has always positioned itself successfully in the market with the continuous development of systems. For example, the open steam engine is further developed to an encapsulated steam engine with forced oil lubrication.

1918 to 1936

Spilling designs and builds new piston steam engines for ship propulsion.

1890

A ship machinery repair business is founded in the Hamburg free port on Kleiner Grasbrook. This is the birth of the Spilling company.

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Steam turbines

Gas expansion engines

Steam compressors

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