Filip: “I had spent years on the inside of the transport refrigeration industry — at a Tier-1 supplier, developing systems for commercial vehicles. I knew exactly how these systems were built, I understood the dependencies embedded in them, and I knew the industry had no interest in dismantling those dependencies because their business model was built on top of them. The trigger was simple: I realised that waiting for someone else to solve this was not a strategy. The electrification of the last mile was accelerating, and the cooling unit on the roof was still the same technology it had always been. In 2019, I decided to stop waiting.”

Dominik: “For me it was a technical conviction that came before anything else. The hermetically sealed refrigeration circuit — the core principle behind the ecos M24 — is not a new idea. Stationary refrigeration has worked this way for decades. What nobody had done was apply it consistently to the transport context. When Filip brought me the challenge, the engineering answer seemed clear: a system that doesn’t leak doesn’t need servicing. Everything else followed from that.”