GIWEP was founded in 1987, born out of the "alliance of theory and practice" of the Institute of Industrial Furnaces at RWTH Aachen University and Mannesmannröhren-Werke in Mülheim an der Ruhr. GIWEP was one of the first enterprises in the area of PC-supported process control and optimisation and today still leads the field in this sector.

The current discussion on how to achieve global climate and energy targets demands new strategies and concepts from politics and business. As a company, GIWEP is committed to this objective and with its product portfolio makes an active contribution to environmental protection, and thus also to climate protection.

GIWEP's products, including its process control systems, are an important key to raising energy efficiency, lowering overall energy consumption, and ultimately to reducing CO2 emissions in thermal-metallurgical plants. In this way, plant operators acquire the status of so-called "green plant operators".