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odine has appointed Jonas Caino as both general manager and managing


director of the newly established Airedale by Modine global data centre cooling business unit. This announcement comes as Airedale’s long-serving managing director, Tony Cole retired after31 years with the company. Originally appointed by Mr Cole, Mr Caino joined Airedale in 2019 to lead the newly established data centre solutions team. Since then, he has moved into a senior commercial role, before taking over as general manager. Reporting to Eric McGinnis, vice president, building HVAC, Mr Caino will be located at Airedale’s UK headquarters - the 23,000 sq metre manufacturing, research and development facility in Leeds. With additional responsibility for production sites in Consett (UK), Guadalajara (Spain), Buena Vista (US) and Grenada (US), this move will see the brand become truly global, as production is expanded across several continents for optimum output, to meet demand for the booming worldwide data centre industry.


data centre industry, Mr Caino has an extensive background in data centre technology and regularly speaks on the future of data centre design and trends. Prior to joining Modine, Mr Caino held various commercial roles spanning a 25 year career, with the latter 10 years in a senior management positions. Mr Caino joined Airedale from Etix Everywhere (Vantage Data Centres) where he held the positions of global vice president of sales and UK country director. He also worked for Schneider Electric and Geist Global (Vertiv), amongst others. Mr Caino said:“This is an exciting time to be leading Airedale and I am delighted to be appointed general manager. With exponential growth in the data centre industry and the strategic realignment of our production resources across the globe, we can focus our talents, minimise waste and maximise efficiencies to allow us to deliver more of the high quality, high efficiency cooling solutions that are currently in demand, worldwide. “Becoming a truly global brand is


an important part of our strategy. We have a wealth of possibilities ahead of us and we are embracing the opportunities we are creating.” Mr McGinnis said: “Jonas brings deep experience and expertise to this role, and is the right leader to support our growth strategy for our data centre business. “In addition to having responsibility for our UK business, Jonas will also lead our global expansion of data


centre products to the US and Western Europe. We are currently expanding our manufacturing capacity for chillers in the UK and will fully utilise our plant in Guadalajara, Spain for computer room cooling products, such as computer room air handlers and fan walls. We are also producing some of these products in the US, with plans to have full production capability in the next 12 to 18 months.”


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ermec sales have steadily increased and it has made several new appointments in


recent months to the sales team to cope with demand. And as part of its on-going recruitment drive, Aermec has announced a further expansion with the appointment of Alex Thompson as business development manager.


Mr Thompson’s new role will see him work closely alongside the wider sales team but he will be primarily representing Aermec in the south west of England and in South Wales. “We are pleased to welcome Mr Thompson into the Aermec family. He brings a wealth of HVAC experience and will play a key role in delivering sustained business value from our award-winning solutions and help drive our growing customer base,” said David Evans, Aermec’s general sales manager.


Mr Thompson has been in the HVAC


industry for 24 years having graduated as a mechanical engineer. He has held posts in research and development for nine years and over the last 15 years has been in technical sales with three


leading air conditioning manufacturers and has multi-product experience. He has extensive experience


supplying chillers, CRACs and AHUs to a wide range of industries and applications – from data centres and mission critical applications to critical cooling for hospitals as well as providing cooling solutions to meet the exacting requirements of large office projects. Mr Thompson will be developing closer relationships with consultants, contractors and end-users, providing advice on Aermec’s wide range of chillers, air conditioning products, fan coils and heat pumps. “I have watched Aermec’s progress over a number of years and it is firmly established as experts in delivering energy efficient solutions for a wide range of industries and applications including the data centre and mission critical industries. I look forward to working with the team and to strengthening Aermec’s position and supporting the business in the next phase of growth,” commented Mr Thompson.


46 December 2021 • www.acr-news.com


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