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HVAC Contingency Planning: Minimising your risk of downtime

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Contingency Planning: If heating, cooling(HVAC) or hot water(DHW) to your facilities are disrupted, have you got a back-up plan? What would be the operational, logistical, financial and legal financial or legal impact, if you weren’t prepared? Having an HVAC and DHW contingency plan in place will ensure you can carry on business as normal, whether … Read more

Process cooling in the summer – 5 key questions for protecting your production

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The British summer is an unreliable season and hot weather tends to surprise us – usually during the working week when we have little time to enjoy it! Like overheating the engine in your car, the loss of cooling capability from industrial chillers and cooling towers during hotter weather can create huge problems for manufacturers … Read more

Production contingency planning – it’s all in the preparation

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Keeping your production running efficiently is essential for remaining profitable and keeping your customers happy. To safeguard your production process and prevent equipment from failing, preventative maintenance plans should be followed with a contingency plan in place, should the worst happen. Even the highest quality equipment can fail when not looked after correctly. In 2015, a … Read more

Don’t Fit and Forget – equipment servicing is essential

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Temperature control for commercial buildings and offices is vital to controlling energy consumption, and delivering effective cooling to employees and business-critical applications, such as IT server rooms. Although recent years have witnessed a focus on building controls and their integration into the wider building management system (BMS), facilities managers can overlook the critical maintenance of … Read more

Production Maintenance – Your Headache-Free Guide

Process cooling and heating for manufacturing industries including plastics, food, beverage, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, rubber, packaging and metal processing.

There’s nothing quite like production downtime or a process heating and cooling system that’s struggling to cope to give engineering and production managers a headache. Dave Palmer, Strategic Accounts Director at the leading temperature control specialist ICS Cool Energy explains how to protect your production and minimise the risk of downtime. When it comes to process … Read more

The Importance of Water Treatment

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Protect your production from downtime Your system water quality affects the longevity of your process equipment, parts and components. As soon as water starts running through your system, it’s changing the properties within, so it’s essential it is checked regularly and treated correctly. British Standard BS 8552:2012 recommends quarterly analysis of closed water systems, however … Read more

The Importance of Being Prepared – 5 Top Tips

Top 5 tips for business continuity in the commercial building sector Planning for the worst can seem like a daunting task but understanding how your business and its facilities will cope in a disaster is incredibly important. Here Russ Baker, UK Sales Director of the hire division at ICS Cool Energy, outlines why a business … Read more