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51% Reduction In Cooling Running Costs & Flex Membership For Injection Moulding Company

Injection moulding company benefits from equipment, maintenance, and system upgrades with the flexibility of an operating expense. The Challenge An injection moulding company, located in Basingstoke and specialising in the manufacturing of products for the automotive industry, recently encountered a critical breakdown of their chiller. This unexpected challenge not only prompted the need for a … Read more

Transforming Manufacturing Efficiency at West Midlands Machining Centres

For 25 years, two machining centre plants located in the West Midlands, have been dedicated to precision engineering and playing a key role in supplying components to leading truck and bus builders across the UK and Europe. In 2022, their operational efficiency faced a critical challenge due to unreliable cooling systems, threatening production continuity and … Read more

Hull Hospital Saves Energy & Cuts Emissions With Retrofitted Heat Pumps

ICS Cool Energy multi-pipe chillers and heat pumps took over from the hospital’s gas boilers, reducing heating system’s gas consumption by almost 69% in the first five months of operations, and helped Hull Hospital on their way to carbon neutrality. The Challenge For the hospital, maintaining the right temperature, humidity, and air quality is essential … Read more

Heat Pumps As Renewable Alternative To Traditional Gas Fired Boiler

The Challenge A public college was awarded funds as part of the UK Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme (PSDS) to carry out heat decarbonisation and energy efficiency measures in three buildings located in their campus in central Britain. Using an old heating system based on traditional gas fired boilers, they were looking for a more sustainable … Read more

New outlook on free cooling in the window industry

ICS Cool Energy’s Dry Air Liquid Coolers can run alongside a pre-existing chiller

The Challenge Plastics manufacturing cooling is among the most demanding and challenging of processes, renowned for high energy demands. UK and global legislative initiatives such as the CRC (Carbon Reduction Commitment) Energy Efficiency Scheme are creating additional impetus and pressure for businesses to find ways to save energy and reduce their carbon footprint. A window … Read more

Manufacturer Of Plastic Components For Automotive Tests Industrial Free Heating (I-FH) Units Hire As Replacement To Gas Boilers

The Challenge One of the leading plastic manufacturers in Europe specialising in production of automotive parts was considering heat pump technologies to replace their existing 1.5MW gas boiler heating system. For advice and available options, they reached out to the ICS Cool Energy team. During the site and system inspection, the ICS engineering team also … Read more

Data Centre Uses Sustainable Heating Hire To Conduct Tier 3 Chiller Cooling Performance Tests

The Challenge A data centre customer needed to conduct a one month-long full-load test of their chillers to receive Tier 3 certification. Not being able to secure enough heat load from their operations, the data centre was looking for an external source of heat to conduct the necessary tests. The Solution Considering renting electric heaters, … Read more

Manufacturer Of Dental Products Secures Sustainable Process Heating For The Winter

The Challenge Responding to the market uncertainties related with rising gas prices and potential shortage, one of the leading manufactures of high-end dental products and technologies decided to move away from gas-boiler heating systems. With sustainability and decarbonization goals being an important factor in their decision-making process, the manufacturer wasn’t looking at other fossil-fueled heating … Read more

Plastic Packaging Manufacturer Future Proofs Their Heating System Replacing Fossil-Fuelled Equipment With Heat Pump Technologies

The Challenge A manufacturer of plastic packaging and containers decided to future proof their operations addressing the rising costs of fossil-fuel energy and concerns about its availability and environmental footprint. To do so, they reached out to the ICS Cool Energy team with a request to re-design the existing heating system based on high-efficiency heat … Read more

Leisure Centre Drop Gas-Fired Boilers In Favour Of Heat Pumps

The Challenge The ICS Cool Energy hire team was approached by a leisure centre looking for a more sustainable alternative to replace one of the two gas-fired boilers used to heat the swimming pool facilities. During the replacement planning, the second of the aging boilers broke down requiring a new heating source within less than … Read more