Uninterrupted success The Riello Group of Italy is a market leader in the design and manufacture of heating and renewable power systems. The group was recently acquired by the Climate Controls & Security Corporation (UTC), which has enhanced Riello’s product portfolio, its HVAC technologies and global reach, as Philip Yorke reports.
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he Riello Group was established in 1922 by its founder Pilade Riello in Legnago, Italy, and it remained a wholly-owned family business until 2015 when 70 per cent of the company was acquired by the United Technologies Corporation of America (UTC). The remaining 30 per cent was acquired by the corporation in December 2017. UTC is a leading global supplier of heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) and refrigeration systems. It also offers cutting edge fire and security systems, building controls and automation technologies. Today the Riello Group is a truly global player with 17 subsidiaries, nine state-of-the-art production sites and four research centres of excellence. It employs more than 3000 people worldwide and in 2017 it recorded sales of more than €800 million.
Prizewinning power supply solutions In May this year, Riello Power Systems, in association with its partner RWE Supply & Trading, won the coveted award for the most innovative energy-saving, power supply technologies. The prize was awarded for Riello’s and RWE’s solution for uninterruptable power supplies by the prestigious Deutsche n Rechenzentrumspreis es (DRZP), the ‘Oscars’ of the Data Centre Industry, the event’s sponsors. The special award 92 Industry Europe
was presented during a gala evening organised in conjunction with the conference, ‘Future Thinking’, in Darmstadt, Germany. The uninterruptable power supply (UPS) product ‘Riello Master+’ was developed in close cooperation between both companies in order to improve the safety and quality of data-centre power supply systems, and at the same time reduce installation and operating costs. These were the goals achieved by Riello and RWE, which were presented at the ‘Future Thinking’ conference in Darmstadt. “We have combined our unrivalled expertise to develop a unique and innovative UPS solution. Our latest ground-breaking system defines a new market reference for our customers. It reduces initial investment costs and running costs, while simultaneously increasing reliability and quality of the power supply itself,” commented Dr Hans Gunter Schwarz of GWE Supply & Trading. For Riello Power Systems, Ing. Luca Buscherini added, “The customer who chooses this solution benefits from multiple advantages. For example, it uses a unique UPS system and ‘premium type batteries’ with as an oversized accumulation capacity that can easily be used as an extended-time and integrated battery supervision system (BMS).” Today Riello is committed to the reduction of its environmental impact, which it considers a very important matter in terms of
