The Uckermark is a region situated approximately 100 km northeast of Berlin, Germany.

In 1972, manufacturing began at AWP with shut-off valves, regulation valves and check valves for the refrigeration industries. In 1974 safety valves were added to the product range and in 1978 this was further complemented by the introduction of further regulating valves.

Following the reunification of Germany in 1990, AWP was privatized in stages by a state-run trustee’s organization. The production of refrigeration valves was continued in the newly founded company “AWP Kälte-Klima-Armaturen GmbH” with 37 employees.

In 1994 the company began to specialize in customer-specific solutions for compressor packages and it was in this context that the first suction filter combinations were designed and manufactured.
In 2006 AWP became an affiliate of the GEA Group corporation.