Refrigerator cools by flexing artificial muscles

The new technology is based on an incredibly simple principle

04-Apr-2024 - There is room for just one small bottle in the world’s first refrigerator that is cooled with artificial muscles made of nitinol, a nickel-titanium alloy. But the mini-prototype that the team led by professors Stefan Seelecke and Paul Motzki will be presenting at the Hannover Messe from 22 to 26 ...

LAUDA inaugurates new plant in Terrassa, Spain

18-Oct-2022 - The Spanish subsidiary of LAUDA DR. R. WOBSER GMBH & CO. KG, LAUDA Ultra-cool, SL, has officially inaugurated its new production site with a celebratory ceremony in Terrassa, near Barcelona. In doing so, the temperature control specialist has successfully completed its first construction project ...

A nanokelvin microwave refrigerator for molecules

A new method to cool gases of polar molecules to near absolute zero paves the way to study quantum effects of exotic matter forms

02-Aug-2022 - Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics have developed a novel cooling technique for molecular gases that allows polar molecules to be cooled down to a few nanokelvin. The trick used by the team in Garching to overcome this hurdle is based on a rotating microwave field. It helps ...

LAUDA is building a new facility for the production of circulation chillers in Spain for 7 million euros

Investment in energy-efficient temperature control technology

09-Feb-2021 - On 20 January 2011, i.e. 10 years ago, LAUDA acquired a plant for industrial circulation chillers in Terrassa near Barcelona, Spain. Owing to the continuous positive development of the Spanish subsidiary, the temperature control specialist was able to celebrate the laying of the foundation stone ...

Tomorrow's coolants of choice

Scientists assess the potential of magnetic-cooling materials

18-Sep-2019 - Later during this century, around 2060, a paradigm shift in global energy consumption is expected: we will spend more energy for cooling than for heating. Meanwhile, the increasing penetration of cooling applications into our daily lives causes a rapidly growing ecological footprint. New ...

Spin-off develops magnetic cooling system for extremely low temperatures

Cooling for quantum electronics

11-Jun-2019 - The start-up kiutra is the first company in the world to have succeeded in developing a permanent magnetic cooling system to reach temperatures close to absolute zero. Such temperatures are, for example, required for the operation of quantum computers. The system was set up by a team of ...

Research team uses artificial muscles to develop an air conditioner for the future

14-Mar-2019 - It can be used to cool or heat the air in a room or to cool or heat liquids. And it looks like something that Q – the tech specialist and gadgeteer in the James Bond films – might have come up with. The prototype device, which has been developed by a research team led by Professors Stefan ...

LAUDA appoints Dr. Ralf Hermann as the new General Manager Constant temperature equipment

20-Jun-2017 - Dr. Ralf Hermann started work as the new General Manager Constant temperature equipment on June 1, 2017 at LAUDA. With his extensive experience and comprehensive specialized knowledge gained from many years in a managerial capacity at Eppendorf AG, as well as his PhD in biology, he will continue ...

DKSH extends partnership with LAUDA to Singapore and Taiwan

05-May-2017 - DKSH, the leading Market Expansion Services provider with a focus on Asia, and LAUDA, a global leader in manufacturing thermal-controlling instruments, have signed a distributor agreement for Singapore and Taiwan for the product line of constant temperature equipment. DKSH Business Unit ...

JULABO at Achema 2012

Numerous New Products, a Unique Cooking Show, and a fresh booth concept

05-Jul-2012 - With the motto "Superior Temperature Technology for a Better Life" JULABO presented its new and fresh “open stand” concept at this year’s ACHEMA. The many visitors of the JULABO booth made intensive use of the opportunity to learn about all the innovations: the first instruments of the newest ...