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Fan manufacturer begins US expansion
This is the largest single investment in the company's history.
US. In the past eight years it has risen to 230. This figure is set to reach 800 with 11 sales
offices serving all of North America. Ziehl-Abegg’s US managing director, Mirco Herrmann, said the company is a world leader in the field of ventilation and drive technology, as well as the corresponding control
technology.
"In addition to data centres, areas of applica-
tion for these products include heating and refrigeration systems, clean rooms and agricul- tural systems,” he said.
The new plant is about 20 kilometers from the existing site. The building, which covers an area of 46,500 square meters, is expected to be ready for occupancy in 2024. The existing pro- duction plant will then be relocated to the new site in 2025.
The production plant will have a high level of vertical integration to provide customers with a high degree of flexibility and short delivery times. Winding machines, welding robots and CNC machines have been installed for this purpose.
There are plans to set up a development hub with a laboratory which will utilise an extensive system of air measurement and motor test rigs.
GERMAN MANUFACTURER OF electric drives and fans, Ziehl Abegg, is investing $100 million in a new production facility in the United States.
The company will boost production and sales activities in North America with the construc- tion of a plant in Winston, Salem.
Ziehl Abegg CEO, Dr. Marc Wucherer, said it is
the largest single investment at one location in the company's 113-year history and is the result of strong growth in Mexico, Canada and the US.
“Growth in North America has enabled the Greensboro (North Carolina) site to increas- ingly accelerate its rate of expansion since its inception in 2004.
A decade ago, Ziehl-Abegg had 40 staff in the
From air cooling to liquid technology and heat reuse
INDUSTRIAL COOLING COMPANY,
Frigel Firenze S.p.A, and Neurok Thermocon Inc., a leading provider of passive liquid cool- ing products for data centres, will demonstrate a 350kW Modular Data Centre (MDC) with liquid heat transfer and heat reuse at Data Centre World this month.
Data Centre World will be held in London on 8-9 March, 2023.
The 350kW MDC combines Loop Heat Pipes based Passive Liquid Cooling from Neurok Thermocon and the most effective Adiabatic Cooler from Frigel.
It has industry standard size with up to 1008 OCP servers inside placed within 12 racks. With no pumps or drip connections inside this product is able to serve all types of data centres (colocation, cloud and HPC) the most efficient way with no risk of leakage and no complicated maintenance.
Firenze S.p.A. global sales manager for the heat rejection system division, Riccardo Petris, said the Frigel adiabatic cooler represents the leading technology in the area of heat transfer from data centres.
“When passive liquid cooling moves heat from inside the servers to outside the rack we work as a perfect team to eliminate heating issues and maintain the strictest possible eco- logical standards,” he said.
Passive Liquid Cooling appeared recently on the crossroad of multiple trends in the data centre industry. The growing power of chips and servers requires a transition from air cool- ing to liquid cooling, but ecological limits and data centres practice need a simple solution with minimal energy and water spending.
Loop Heat Pipes technology created an abil- ity to have data centre cooling with liquid cool- ing and heat reuse and the most advanced
The passive liquid cooling solution combines all of the latest trends in data centre technology.
adiabatic cooler enabled to make 350kW Modular Data Center real.
"We believe that Loop Heat Pipes based passive liquid cooling is the way to change the data Centre paradigm from wasting energy and water to being a green source of heat,” the CEo of Neurok Thermocon, Vadim Asadov, said.
“We also hope that Loop Heat Pipes will be able to serve the most power chips, both cur- rent and future for the next decade." ✺
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