ESBE is a leading European manufacturer of hydronic solutions. The Swedish industrialist Johan August Skogsfors founded ESBE back in 1906 In the town of Reftele in Småland. What was to be a crucial step in ESBE’s history was the design and construction of a small central heating system with attached radiators. The invention made it possible to spread the heat throughout the house without keeping a fire lit in all the house’s cockle stoves. In 1935 the first mixing valve was introduced to the market, and “Skogsfors Bruk” was shortened to ESBE (S and B).