A global engineering company has set up local operations with the establishment of Frigel Australia.
The new company is based in Melbourne and provides sales, service and engineering support for the region.
Frigel director Marcus Sutch said Australia has been one of the few successful economies in the developed world over the last four years.
“With its strong appreciation for innovative and clean technology, Frigel has been perfectly positioned to offer our Australian and NZ customers a comprehensive engineering solution that meets their high environmental and efficiency demands,” he said.
The move is part of expansion plans that has seen the company increase its presence in the Asia Pacific region.
In 2011, the Italian-based company opened a modest 1500sqm manufacturing plant in Bangkok to service and supply its growing customer base in the region.
Nearly two years later and with continued growth, Frigel has purchased land in one of Bangkok’s trade free zones and is now building a 9000sqm engineering and manufacturing plant which will be completed in mid-2014.
Frigel’s plans in Australia are to continue the sales and marketing of its Ecodrygel family of adiabatic coolers as well as its range of industrial chillers.
The success of its Ecodrygel coolers lies in its worldwide patented adiabatic chamber, Sutch said.
“This allows the cooler to operate with remarkably low energy and water consumption across a wide range of environmental and climatic conditions, making it a superior alternative to traditional cooling systems like evaporative cooling towers, with their challenges such as legionella control and high chemical usage,” he said.
Ecodrygel coolers operate in a closed-loop “clean” water circuit.
“The innovative geometry of humidifiers which form the adiabatic chamber guarantees high relative humidity of the air crossing the hydrophilic coated fins and heat exchanger coils, thus maximising the efficiency of the cooler,” he said.
“Additionally, Frigel employs high efficiency brushless EC fan technology as standard to achieve the lowest noise profile driven by stringent guidelines as applied in the building industry today.”
Sutch said the Heavygel and Microgel family of industrial chillers is unique and versatile.
“For example, the Microgel, when used as a dedicated machine side chiller in a plastic injection moulding application, is able to deliver constant high pressure and flow to the process, resulting in turbulence and optimal heat transfer,” he said.
“Turbulent flow and temperature control accuracy are the key ingredients to efficient cooling, whether in a mould or any other type of heat exchanger. Consistent and repeatable cooling parameters result in the elimination of product hot spots and increased product quality, cycle-to-cycle and cavity-to-cavity.
“All Microgel products are specifically engineered to achieve these results.”
Locally, Frigel’s Ecodrygel cooler is being used at Frankston Hospital in Victoria.
Frigel Australia managing director, Roger Ong, said what sets the company apart is its innovative reengineering of the critical infrastructure of process cooling and control.
“Our equipment offers our customers the lowest environmental impact, lowest operating costs and the longest lasting equipment in the industry with a return on investment between 1.5 to five years depending on each customer’s specific application,” Ong said.
“Specifically, we aim to provide a complete engineering solution for all our customers.”
For more information visit www.frigel.com or call 03 9587 8047.