Celebrating 25 years with new chillers

Originally formed in 1989 by Jeff Spolnik and Phil Wilson, ICS opened with two offices, providing coverage in both the north and the south of the UK. Expansion continued in the mid-nineties when the team opened an office in Ireland to manage all aspects of sales, service and rental.

In the mid-2000s, Cool Energy, a specialist temperature rental company was formed, later expanding into Europe after merging with ICS to form ICS Cool Energy. This led to the development of a clearly defined strategy for Sales, Rental and Service and an achievement of over 50,000 projects. Today the company is led by Adam Spolnik, Kevin Whyte, Mike Jones and Russell Wilson and is forging ahead with the agreement of significant deals and new partnerships, whilst also launching the latest edition to its fleet, the ‘i-chiller’.

ICS Cool Energy’s company director, Adam Spolnik, comments: "We are proud to ring in our milestone 25th year with the announcement that we are bringing our new i-chiller range to both UK and European markets. Over the last quarter of a century we’ve supported industries across the globe, providing temperature control solutions and specialist advice on process heating and commercial cooling projects. The need for businesses to improve efficiencies across the board has never been more prevalent, with seemingly ever-increasing energy prices and tighter regulatory directives being introduced.

"The i-chiller represents an evolution of our long-serving cooling range by placing efficiency at its core, using the very highest grade components in each and every one of the range’s 17 strong chiller models as standard, to ensure that ‘out of the box’ levels of reliabilty and productivity can be sustainably and consistently achieved.”

With cooling capacities starting at 0.9kW and extending to 122.4kW, the i-chiller promises a flexible approach to economic process cooling for a wide array of applications. The range features two new versions, offering high efficiency (HE) and dual frequency variations. The new range also includes a high pressure axial fan and an oversized hydraulic tank as standard, enabling the chiller to compensate for any imbalances caused by changes in load demand whilst in operation.

In support of the European Union’s legislation regarding the phase out of environmentally unfriendly R22 gas, the i-chiller range predominantly utilises more sustainable R410A refrigerant, with R470C and R134a gases used within the smaller capacity models.

Spolnik continues, "Proactive businesses making the change away from R22 by embracing more sustainable alternatives, not only ensure total compliance with the change in EU legislation, but also help to develop processes in favour of a much more environmentally-minded, energy efficient practice.”