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Airedale and Denco on awards shortlist

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Airedale’s SmartCool is up for two awards

UK: Airedale and GEA Denco precision air conditioners are amongst the products shortlisted for awards in this year’s Data Centre Solutions Awards.

Airedale sees its SmartCool chilled water precision air conditioner nominated in two categories: Datacentre Power & Cooling Product of the Year and Datacentre Energy Efficiency Product of the Year. The SmartCool is joined on the shortlist of finalists for Datacentre Energy Efficiency Product of the Year by the Leeds-based company’s Turbochill screw chiller.

Hereford-based GEA Denco’s Multi-DENCO climate-control unit is also nominated for Datacentre Power & Cooling Product of the Year and will also compete with Airedale in the Datacentre Energy Efficiency Product of the Year with its Adia-DENCO cooling system.

The winners will be decided by public vote and announced on May 15, 2014, at the awards evening at the Millennium Hotel, London.

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