News & Articles

July 28, 2009

CEO Steve Kinkel’s article on Indirect-Direct Evaporative Cooling featured in the ACHR News

Steve Kinkel, CEO of United Metal Products, recently published an article on the benefits of Indirect-Direct Evaporative Cooling in the Air Conditioning, Heating & Refrigeration (ACHR) NEWS publication. One of the most practical ways to increase a company’s bottom line and practice sustainability is in the area of cooling. Many companies assume their only option with regards […]
July 22, 2009

A Simple Explanation of How Evaporative Cooling Works

When you walk along the beach in San Diego and feel a cool breeze coming off the water, this is a great example of evaporative cooling. However, if you go inland 50 miles, you will feel a very real difference because of the high dry bulb temperature with no evaporation taking place. Evaporative cooling takes place when […]
July 21, 2009

The Green Cooling Solution for Cooling Large Warehouse Facilities

Below is an excerpt from a recently published article on cooling large facilities: “What do large distribution centers, warehouses, Wal-Mart, Sam’s Club, Costco, and Lowe’s all have in common? These facilities are all part of what have commonly become known as the big box stores in the construction industry. One would have to admit that over the […]
July 20, 2009

Four Key Advantages of a Packaged Central Plant vs. Built Up Mechanical Room

When considering whether a facility should go with a built up mechanical room or a Chil-Pak® packaged central plant the following four things should be considered: Initial Cost-Chil-Pak® is able to provide facilities with an effective central plant solution at 10-15% the cost of a traditional built up mechanical room. Reduced Lead Time-Because the engineering and system […]
July 20, 2009

Have you Checked the Media in the Evaporative Cooling Equipment on Your Facility Recently?

One of the easiest ways to achieve optimal performance from evaporative cooling equipment is to perform routine maintenance including regularly replacing the cooling media.  CoolingMedia.com provides a quick, efficient, and convenient way to purchase the media for your evaporative coolers.  For customers that have high volume needs CoolingMedia.com offers bulk pricing.  Visit CoolingMedia.com in order to take […]
July 7, 2009

Technology Advancment = Financial Savings

As it becomes more and more apparent that the data center world will be facing governmental regulation the IDU (indirect-direct unit) is an excellent environmentally friendly cooling solution.  The IDU uses a two stage cooling process to maximize energy effectiveness without sacrificing cool supply air temperatures, at half the energy cost of A/C or compressurized systems. United […]
June 28, 2009

Chil-Pak’s® Packaged Central Plant: A Perfect Compliment for Containerized Data Centers

Chil-Pak® offers a fully integrated packaged central plant that is an excellent compliment for containerized data centers. The Chil-Pak® packaged plant provides data center owners with a modular, scalable, and redundant cooling solution for their facilities. Because Chil-Pak’s® packaged plant is designed by an interdependent team of highly trained engineers, they are able to offer several competitive […]
June 26, 2009

Looking for Energy Efficient Solutions for Data Center Cooling?

With over 30 years of experience providing energy efficient cooling solutions, United Metal is the natural choice when it comes to providing green cooling solutions for data centers.  The solution based cooling designs that United Metal Products offers provides mission critical facilities with a range of choices to meet their specific needs. “United Metal Products is offering […]
June 12, 2009

United Metal Products on Twitter

In order to better serve our clients United Metal Products can now be followed on Twitter at http://twitter.com/UnitedMetal
May 27, 2009

CEO Steve Kinkel’s article on Energy Efficient Cooling for Big Box Facilities featured in the ACHR News

Steve Kinkel, CEO, and Harold Simmons, Special Projects Director, of United Metal Products recently published an article entitled “The Green Solution for Big Box Cooling” in the ACHR News.  In the article the authors give the following six reasons why evaporative cooling is the “green solution” for providing temperature control in big box facilities: NATURE’S OWN COOLING […]