Cooling News & Trends

The Air-Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Institute (AHRI) announced the launch of its upgraded Directory of Certified Product Performance, a real-time online directory that includes more than 7.2 million listings of all AHRI Certified® products. "AHRI's online directory was more than ten years old, and in need of an upgrade to support expanding reporting requirements as regulators at the federal, state, and local levels increasingly relied upon AHRI for accurate and unbiased data on...

Eurotunnel releases official data demonstrating energy savings of 33 percent after the first season of operating a new cooling system for maintaining requisite temperatures in the landmark Channel Tunnel. The operator saved 4.8 GWh and approximately € 500,000 in 2017 courtesy of the new cooling system – equivalent to saving enough electricity to run 1,000 households. The newly released data from the operation of the new cooling system will dramatically boost Eurotunnel’s sustai...

With the Wilo-EMU TRE 312, the Dortmund-based pump manufacturer has developed a highly efficient submersible mixer, which convinces an optimum thrust output figure, high operational reliability, and long service life, thus perfectly complementing the product portfolio of slow-speed Wilo submersible mixers. For unrestricted usage The new TRE 312 submersible mixers are used with fluctuating water levels (SBR), in MBBR processes In the case of wastewater treatment plants, inflows can vary accordi...

Victaulic, the producer of mechanical pipe joining solutions, has launched the industry’s first grooved piping system designed exclusively for chlorinated polyvinyl chloride/polyvinyl chloride (CPVC/PVC) pipe. Created for use on Schedules 40 and 80 CPVC and PVC pipe, the system includes a full line of Installation-Ready™ couplings, fittings and pipe preparation tools. Victaulic’s new solution offers the fastest, cleanest installation method for CPVC/PVC pipe and eliminates sev...

Phoenix Manufacturing has been making evaporative cooling products since 1975. The Phoenix based company designs, manufactures and distributes its products both nationally and internationally for homeowners and businesses. Phoenix Manufacturing a provider of customer service, product quality and engineering innovations. This includes mobile evaporative coolers like the Mobile Aerocool, Master Blaster, Patio Pal and Shop Blaster. “The evaporative cooling market is pretty mature, so our de...

Phoenix Manufacturing, Inc. (PMI) announces a new twist for an old established product line. PMI is bringing the highest level of customer service by offering factory assembling and pre-wire services that save time and money on all your commercial/industrial jobs. FAC (or Factory Assembled Coolers) speed up the installation process with ready to install coolers direct from the factory. The FAC option provides the benefits of receiving the order fully assembled and factory tested by a team a tra...

Phoenix Manufacturing, Inc. (PMI) announces a new addition to the company’s evaporative cooler line up. UL Classified and UL Listed models for both the PMI Trophy and Pro Series coolers are now available. The primary difference between a UL Classified and UL Listed model is that the Listed version uses GlasDek (fire and smoke rated) rigid media. High Efficiency Coolers In addition, Pheonix offers a U.L. version of these 2 models with the standard media when an application is defined as...