Topics - Evaporative Cooling

United Metal Products® is a manufacturer of commercial HVAC equipment with a proven track record of excellence and a strong commitment to customer service. As the industry’s leader in outside air energy recovery and evaporative cooling technologies, United Metal Products® specializes in developing innovative solutions while maintaining high standards of quality. This commitment to providing outstanding customer service along with the highest quality products has led to United Metal Products’® equipment being installed on facilities throughout the world from Mexico to the Middle East and across the entire United States.

United Metal Products works with our clients to design systems that fits their building specific needs. In order to meet the challenge of height restrictions imposed on new building owners, United Metal Products has developed the lowest profile commercial evaporative coolers on the market today. One often overlooked advantage of evaporative cooling is that it consumes less water than air conditioning. This is because utility companies consume a substantial amount of water generating the electricity required by air conditioning.

United Metal Products offers their clients another major innovation. The central pumping system cuts at least 80% of the maintenance and fifty percent of the water normally wasted in standard evaporative coolers. The central pump works by having a single pump distribute the water to multiple units on the roof. Gravity then drains the water back to the single reservoir where it is easily maintained, controlled, and monitored. The central pump also keeps the individual units free from the corrosive effect of standing water.

If water usage is the building owners number one concern with evaporative cooling, maintenance is second. Ease of component access, large hinged accessed doors and panels, high quality sump construction, custom engineering and manufacturing with the owner in mind, all combine to make United Metal Products systems the favorite of design and maintenance engineers.

A unique cooling medium manufactured by Munters® allows us to compress 123 sq ft. of suface area into one cubic foot. This leads to optimal operating efficiency. This media’s distilling process produces pure water vapor free of pollutants, minerals, and bacteria. To product you and your clients United Metal Products industrial and commercial evaporative coolers are thoroughly tested in accordance with UL standards and can be ETL labeled at our factory.

In order to order replacement media visit CoolingMedia.com

United Metal Products’® has a combined experience of over two hundred years in providing clients with innovative evaporative technologies. This uniquely talented team of individuals work interdependently in order to find solutions to address all kinds of temperature control issues such as:

• Employee health safety
• Employee productivity
• Cutting energy costs
• Flexible design
• Meeting equipment profile regulations
• Reducing water usage
• Fighting corrosion
• Controlling humidity
• Obtaining maximum operating efficiency through advanced media
• Proper labeling and listing

The Fan Air is appropriate for a range of applications. But for those facilities that require a custom solution we provide maximum efficiency and effectiveness with the largest, most flexible, and highest quality range of commercial and industrial evaporative coolers and temperature control products in the industry.

The natural elegance of evaporative cooling has given the air conditioning industry its foundation. While working with air washing and humidity control in a textile mill in 1906, Dr. Carrier developed what many believed to be his greatest accomplishment: the psychometric chart. His later experiments in substituting the natural water vapors of evaporative cooing with ammonia led to his development of the refrigeration process and to CFC gases. This in turn also led to the high price we are now paying for their use. The solution to this problem is a new generation of environmentally friendly, cost effective, evaporative cooling equipment.

The advancements we are making at United Metal Products are solution based. We take on the climate control problems that building owners face such as:

• Health, safety and productivity issues of employees
• Quality and flexibility of equipment
• Equipment profiles
• Water usage
• Corrosion
• Humidity control
• Labeling and listing

“One of our priorities is to solve our customers cooling and heating requirements. In fact, developing these solutions is one of the purposes and drives of our company. Whether it is through direct evaporative cooling, indirect-direct cooling, or energy recovery systems United Metal Products provides our clients with turnkey answers to temperature control issues. Some of the facilities that we specialize in providing cooling solutions for are large warehouses, big box stores, manufacturing facilities, distribution centers, prisons, schools, and data centers.” —Steve Kinkel, CEO of United Metal Products

Since the beginning of time our planet’s survival has depended upon a natural process, a process that drives our weather system. The process begins with the sun warming the oceans, then the heated water vaporizes and rises before condensing into clouds. The clouds then release the cooled cargo in the form of rain. This process is known as evaporative cooling. This natural and powerful system has been the inspiration and model for cooling technologies throughout the ages.

The history of today’s modern evaporative cooling parallels the history of one family. In 1912 an inventive German family migrated to the U.S.   In the early 1920’s their oldest son, Jon Goettl, moved to Arizona and soon began mass producing evaporative cooling units. International Metal Products was born and over forty years later grandson Steve Kinkel founded United Metal Products. 

In order to achieve the maximum effectiveness from your evaporative cooling equipment regular maintenance is needed.  CoolingMedia.com offers the following five tips for optimal performance:

• Remember to drain and disinfect the water distribution system every three months.
• Avoid contaminants such as dust, toxic fumes, and harsh chemical cleaners including those for water treatment.
• Make sure that the recommended amount of water is being run over the evaporative cooling media.
• Fix any leaks in the water distribution system.
• Set up a maintenance schedule where the water filters are being regularly cleaned.

CoolingMedia.com offers a convenient and quick  way to purchase your evaporative cooler replacement pads.  They are an authorized seller of  the original CELdek® and GLASdek® media.  By drawing on the 30+ years of  industry  experience of United Metal Products®, the knowledgeable team at CoolingMedia.com is able to provide their customers with the highest quality evaporative cooler replacement media at an excellent price.

As part of United Metal Products’ commitment toward continually developing energy efficient, cost saving evaporative cooling technology, they have accepted an invitation to become an affiliate member of the Western Cooling Efficiency Center at the University of California Davis. One of the main goals of the WCEC is to “reduce cooling system electrical demand and energy consumption in the Western United States.” As one of the leading manufacturers and innovators of commercial and industrial evaporative cooling technology, United Metal Products is excited to partner with WCEC in helping to create energy saving technology.

“The economic situation that we are currently in has many businesses, such as big box retailers, realizing that one strategic way to reduce internal expenditures is through reducing cooling costs. We have been helping businesses increase their bottom line for over thirty years by applying evaporative cooling solutions to their facilities and are eager to work with the Western Cooling Efficiency Center in their efforts to reduce needless energy consumption.” —Steve Kinkel, CEO of United Metal Products