News & Articles

February 26, 2009

United Metal Products Accepts Invitation to Join the Western Cooling Efficiency Center

As part of United Metal Products’ commitment toward continually developing energy efficient, cost saving evaporative cooling technology, they have accepted an invitation to become an affiliate member of the Western Cooling Efficiency Center at the University of California Davis. One of the main goals of the WCEC is to “reduce cooling system electrical demand and energy consumption […]
February 17, 2009

Steve Kinkel Addresses Association of Energy Engineers on Environmental Benefits of Evaporative Cooling

Steve Kinkel, the CEO of United Metal Products, recently gave a presentation to the Association of Energy Engineers (AEE) highlighting six reasons why evaporative cooling is the green solution for “big box” cooling. Below is a slightly modified summary of the environmental benefits that Kinkel mentioned: Evaporative cooling is nature’s own method of cooling. Evaporative cooling systems […]
February 17, 2009

The ERU™: An Innovative Solution for Wet Bulb Energy Recovery

United Metal Products’® Wet Bulb Energy Recovery Unit (ERU) works differently than other energy recovery systems by exchanging air at the wet bulb temperature as opposed to the traditional dry bulb or sensible exchangers. These units are perfect for commercial and industrial applications in regions with a high dry bulb temperature and relatively low wet bulb temperature […]
February 17, 2009

Chil-Pak’s® “Easy Button Approach”

Chil-Pak’s® skilled team of highly trained engineers have already done the time consuming work by creating compact fully integrated, “plug and play,” central plant systems. By using the most powerful engineering tools available, Chil-Pak’s® design-manufacture team can quickly create customized, application specific, engineered solutions for all types of commercial/industrial facilities. Chil-Pak’s® innovative engineering along with their “easy […]
February 16, 2009

The Vision Behind Chil-Pak®

‘‘The vision behind Chil-Pak® is to provide engineers, building owners, and contractors with a fully integrated packaged central plant in a simple cost effective ‘plug and play’ unit. Not only do we streamline the entire design build process, but we create high quality, energy efficient, systems by implementing our brand-neutral, application-specific philosophy in the design and manufacturing […]
February 13, 2009

Chil-Pak®: Leading Manufacturer of High Quality Packaged Central Plants (Part 2)

Chil-Pak® is a manufacturer of high quality, innovative, environmentally friendly, packaged central plants with a strong commitment to customer service. As a leading provider of packaged central plants Chil-Pak® offers a wide range of cutting edge, green cooling/heating solutions to meet the most demanding HVAC needs of commercial and industrial facilities. Chil-Pak’s® ability to provide high performing, […]
February 13, 2009

Chil-Pak®: Manufacturer of Integrated Central Plants

Since opening their doors for business in 2001, Chil-Pak® has provided commercial/industrial building owners, engineers, and contractors with high quality, energy-efficient, packaged central plant cooling and heating systems. Chil-Pak® was founded as a sister company of United Metal Products® (USA) and Flutec Engineering® (Mexico) by bringing together the vision and interdependent skills of Daniel Dominguez, Steve Kinkel, […]
February 12, 2009

Maintaining Evaporative Cooling Equipment Efficiency

One effective way to maintain optimal cooling performance from your evaporative equipment is to regularly change the media.  As the cooling season rapidly approaches in the Western United States now is an excellent time to consider purchasing replacement evaporative cooling media.  A convenient way to obtain high quality media is through  CoolingMedia.com.  They are an authorized seller […]