About Koch Environment
Our Mission
Koch Environmental is a premier full-service environmental test chamber support company. Our team provides service, calibration, maintenance and installations with unmatched quality. We proudly support the professionals who invent, explore, heal, and protect, through the development of new technologies. We respect our industry, our customers, our competitors, the environment, and above all, our employees. We are guided and governed by our core values of innovation, integrity, respect, and sustainability.
Vision
To create an intelligent, benevolent, competitive culture that inspires, equally, the growth of our company and development of each employee. To create an environment where professionals can do the best work of their lives, and be recognized and rewarded. To build a reputation as a company that attracts and retains the most talented professionals in the industry.
Five Generations of Cool – Our History
Jeff and Jake represent the fourth and fifth generations respectively in their family who have worked in the refrigeration industry. Jeff’s grandfather and great grandfather were both icemen, cutting ice out of the lake and delivering it to area homeowners before the advent of mechanical refrigeration.
Our Team
Jeff Koch
President & Technical Manager
Jeff has 40 years of refrigeration experience, and spent his career working in the environmental test chamber industry. Positions held range from refrigeration technician and service manager to project supervisor and technical manager. He’s received factory training from several test chamber manufacturers, and oversees technical training of our staff. Jeff is a 40 year member of RSES (Refrigeration Service Engineers Society).
Jake Koch
Vice President
Jake has worked in the HVAC/R industry for 15 years. He started as a commercial service technician, and moved into service and operations management. He studied business at RIT, and has a background in operations management and business development. Jake is an member of RSES and IEST (Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology).