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Over the last few years as companies have become more aware of the energy usage of their data centers, United Metal Products has been helping them to reduce their OPEX by designing and applying several different cooling solutions. One of the broader categories of systems designed for the mission critical facility by United Metal have been those […]

Over the last few years United Metal Products has been approached by several technology companies and colocation companies that have multiple facilities to provide data center cooling solutions. Through United Metal Products’ work with these clients several unique processes have been developed that are allowing these clients to grow their infrastructure with fewer headaches. One of these […]

One of United Metal Products strengths is coming alongside engineers and owners to help translate the functionality that is needed for a facility’s cooling system into a quality, factory built piece of equipment.   This has been especially true in the data center market.  As more and more end users recognize the environmental and OPEX benefits of eliminating […]

United Metal Products recently shipped the last units for a Fortune 100 Entertainment Company’s multi-site data center project.  By taking advantage of United Metal Products “Design Assist Program for the Application of Evaporative Cooling Technologies to Data Centers”  the end user was able to ensure that each of their data centers unique cooling needs were addressed. To […]

A Fortune 10 financial company has chosen United Metal Products Indirect-Direct Solution for their Data Center Cooling infrastructure. The client was in discussion with several other manufacturer’s but found United Metal Products mission critical team to be the most knowledgeable and helpful in designing the needed system. United Metal worked with the Fortune 10 company to take […]

Many enterprise data center owners have been seeking to capitalize on the increased recommended temperature range put forth by the ASHRAE TC 9.9.  One of the cooling strategies that is regularly being applied by these data center owners  to take advantage of the new temperature range is evaporative cooling.  Many conferences and seminars have rightly promoted evaporative […]

By now most people involved in cooling of data centers have heard the energy efficient wonders of evaporative cooling espoused.  In fact, one manufacturer has taken to paying thousands upon thousands of dollars to place their name on the back of a popular mechanical engineering magazine where they trumpet their evaporative cooling units.  However, it is important […]

A while ago at a conference there was a general contractor who was lamenting about a data center project that he had just completed.  The project had taken his team months longer to go online than initially planned and this was due to in part to the delay of the central plant being completed. However, the general […]

In an effort to lower PUE of their data center facilities, several organizations have sought out the expertise that United Metal Products has in the area of evaporative cooling technologies.  Several years ago it would have been unthinkable for most organizations to consider using evaporative cooling to control the climate in their data centers.  However, ever since […]

United Metal Products has worked with mission critical end users and the engineering community to develop evaporative cooling solutions specifically for data centers.   The uniquely engineered Data Pak allows data centers to take advantage of all the energy efficiency gains of mechanical free cooling while addressing the risk that has been associated with some types of adiabatic […]