The company started as a private company in 1963.

Already in 1964, the company started up with the production and marketing of "Heating" apparatus which was patented at that time.

The apparatus became very soon known under the designation EAF. It had been primarily developed for use on board ships all over the world.

One of the first task for the new company was to travel to Greenland (Arctic area) to save a fishing boat's cables and generators after an accident.

Later in 1964 when the company went from a private company to a registered company, the name Arctic Heating AS was established based on the history mentioned above.

Since then, the AEF methods for drying out electric cables, motors, generators, etc. has been widely applied with a high rate of success.

One example to illustrate its efficiency was when one of the world's largest sub sea tunnel projects the Great Belt tunnel in Denmark - was accidentally flooded during construction work in the autumn of 1991.

In collaboration with international experts in the reconditioning of technical installations, Arctic Heating was involved in the overall rescue operation to save the 220 metre long TBMs (tunnel boring machines). With the help of Arctic Heating's know-how and experience and EAF appliances, more than 25 kilometres of cables of various sizes where dried out.

In the period of 1965 to 1975 Arctic Heating developed other products for the shipping industry as well, as: Anchor chain measuring system, High Level alarm system, Piston cooling alarm system, among other equipments. Sold world wide through own distributors whilst we, in the same period, also became a sub supplier to the most important Ships Gear companies in Norway.

In late 70's the shipping crises in Norway started, and the sale was decreasing rapidly. To survive as a small company, we had to change our strategy. To be un -dependent of shipping, we offered our knowledge within developing to the industry in general. We succeeded and during some years we developed advanced measuring systems for the wood industry as well as advanced weighting systems for a lot of different applications.

In the beginning of 1980, the Norwegian banks wanted to move from centralised cheque printing to de-centralised cheque printing.

We was contacted by one of the largest Bank office suppliers of machinery in Norway, and asked if we could develope a new small cheque encoder for the Norwegian market.

In the period of 1982- 1985 we delivered more than 750 cheque printer units in Norway. Thereafter we delivered more than 400 to Sweeden.

The first unit was called JC60 and printed only one code line in OCRB font, later the JC60 was modified to print 1 text line for personalisation as well.

After the first success with the JC60, we started to make a new model who could be sold world wide.

The model name was JC60E, this machine had a printing station with a Daisy wheel which contained all known font's as E13B, CMC7, OCRA and OCRB, so as you can see the machine could be sold world wide because just by selecting a font in the software it could print the font required in your country, in addition it also had 6 print stations for personalisation data.

The JC60E was a stand alone unit, and it was made for small and medium branches.( not heavy duty)

Some customers asked for a heavy duty machine who could print none stop every day, and also be controlled by a PC. We then started to develope JC64, who more or less took over the sale after JC60E.

The JC64 has been in production from 1988 until year 2002, and have now been replaced by our new model called BP64E

The new BP64E can also print all known font as E13B, CMC7, OCRA and OCRB and have 7 print stations for personalisation date, it has a very service friendly mechanical unit, and it is equipped with new design and latest Flash technology.

All our cheque printers uses only Impact printing to ensure highest possible security for the printed cheques, in addition we supply security MICR and Text ribbon, to secure the cheques even more.

As presented, Our Company enjoys broad experience from a wide range of electronic and electromechanical operations, and we are still looking out for new potential partners and customers. As a versatile partner within developing of new products, we offer know how within 3 D construction, software programming as well mechanical solutions and production in small series.

Click here to see pictures of old models of bank printers.