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Marley Cooling Tower brand marks 100 years of evaporative cooling innovation
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PX Cooling Technologies, Inc., a full-line, full-service industry leader in the design
and manufacture of evaporative cooling systems and air-cooled heat exchangers, is commemorating the 100-year anniversary of its Marley brand, a name synonymous with the development and advancement of energy-efficient and sustainable evaporative cooling towers and components. SPX Cooling will celebrate this milestone throughout 2022 with a company timeline, video history, and events for employees, alumni, representatives and customers. “We are excited to honour the
Marley Company founders who have fostered a long-standing culture of curiosity, drive and inventiveness throughout our company,” said Ankush Kumar, President, SPX Global Cooling. “We’re also happy to celebrate the next century of Marley, where we continue to be built for quality, powered by innovation, and committed to sustainability.” Over the past 100 years, the
Marley spirit of entrepreneurialism and invention has fuelled the organisation. Today, SPX Cooling Technologies holds over 200 U.S. patents for evaporative cooling systems and components. “Our founders were young
engineers and manufacturer’s representatives who listened intently to their customers and quickly began improving upon existing products to provide better industrial cooling solutions,” stated Kumar. “Today, we still consistently look for input from our customers and use their needs to develop new products.” The Marley brand traces its history to the formation of the Power Plant Equipment Company in Kansas City, Missouri in 1922. By the mid-1920’s, founders L.T. Mart and Chester Smiley had patented new spray nozzles and spray pond inventions, and combined elements of their last names to identify these
Raffaello Riello Research Centre opens at Aermec’s headquarters
headquarters in Bevilacqua in Italy.
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Giordano Riello, Aermec’s founder, CEO Alessandro Riello and Vice President Raffaella Riello, and the managers of Giordano Riello International Group and the new group of Aermec researchers were all present at the official opening ceremony.
Professor Federico Faggin, the world-renowned physicist and famous inventor who developed the first commercial microprocessor and touch-screen technology, was the guest of honour and along with Aermec founder Giordano Riello opened the new facility.
During the ceremony and subsequent meeting held in the auditorium of the Raffaello Riello Research Centre, Giordano Riello and Federico Faggin, emphasised
ermec has opened the Raffaello Riello Research Centre at its Italian
the importance of continuous research that looks beyond the daily horizon towards not only the evaluation of new technologies and new ways of resolving problems, but also how to face the latest global challenges, especially those regarding energy and its environmental impact. This comes as Aermec is celebrating the achievement of Michele Gioachin, president of Aermec UK and export sales manager for Aermec SpA, who has been honoured with Italy’s Ordine al Merito del Lavoro medal by the Italian government.
The award was founded as a national order of chivalry in 1923 by King Vittorio Emanuele III of Italy; it is presented to those ‘who have been singularly meritorious’ in agriculture, industry and commerce, crafts, lending and insurance.
The actual medal known as a ‘Star of Merit’ for Labour, confers the title of Maestro del Lavoro,
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inventive products as the “Marley” brand. In 1928 the Marley Company was incorporated. The company was acquired by SPX Corporation in 2001 and today is known as SPX Cooling Technologies. “Over the next several years, we have a strategic path to double the size of our business in cooling, which will come from expansion of our product lines through innovations in R&D as well as acquisitions,” added Kumar. “We will continue to build on our future as we celebrate our historic past, and work on meeting the needs of our customers along the way with sustainable innovations.”
Left to right: Giordano Riello and Professor Federico Faggin opening the Raffaello Riello Research Centre.
which translates as ‘Master of Labour’.
Commenting on the honour a delighted Michele Gioachin said: “I am so proud to be awarded a medal in recognition of my work at Aermec. It is a great achievement and also recognises the support and commitment that Aermec has offered throughout my career. I hope this is an inspiration for others.” The honorary title, is given to
Italian citizens who have worked continuously for at least 25 years in the same company and is bestowed by decree of the President of the Italy following recommendations by the Minister of Economic Development.
To qualify for the award recipients must demonstrate a number of qualities including expertise, industriousness, and good moral conduct.
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