Wolverine's MicroCool™ and Niagara Thermal form Strategic Collaborative Alliance

HUNTSVILLE, Ala., Aug. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Wolverine's MicroCool™ Division and Niagara Thermal Products today announced they have entered into a strategic collaborative alliance, focusing on the joint development of custom engineered, aluminum cold plates for liquid cooling systems in complicated electronic devices for the global aerospace and defense markets.

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"This strategic partnership will provide the defense and aerospace industries around the world with a new, revolutionary level of heat transfer performance where light weight and ultra compact cooling applications are critical," said Peter Beucher, Director of MicroCool™.  "Our joint product focus fully leverages Wolverine's proprietary micro-channel technology with Niagara Thermal's enhanced joining technology and thermal engineering expertise."  

Under the collaboration agreement, the two companies have further strengthened their mutual thermal engineering capabilities by creating an innovative liquid cooling system with exceptional heat transfer capability.  By combining Wolverine's proprietary MicroCool™ fin geometries with Niagara Thermal's unique aluminum joining technology and heat exchanger design expertise, both companies will provide a new order of magnitude in the development of next generation custom liquid cooling systems, with specific applicability in hybrid electric vehicles, aviation, advanced propulsion systems, alternative energy hardware, UAVs, Satellites, radar systems, and other sectors.

"This new relationship will give customers in the aerospace and defense sectors a product technology option to the standard vacuum-brazed aluminum cold plate with folded-fin architecture.  Our new collaborative team, is prepared to custom engineer specific liquid cold plate solutions with alternative joining techniques that fully leverage the advantage of the integrated, monolithic fin design, characteristic of MicroCool™, for more reliable and cost effective thermal performance," said Mark Parisi, Director of Business Development for Niagara Thermal.  "We can now marry the many advantages of this new revolutionary heat transfer surface with our long standing inventory of heat exchanger product designs to offer the industry an order of magnitude improvement in total system performance for electronic liquid cooling loops."

About Wolverine

Wolverine is a leading manufacturer and supplier of technically advanced, surface-enhanced copper and copper alloy tube, fabricated products, and high-tech brazing and joining products. Wolverine's proprietary, custom-engineered tube products provide thermal management solutions for our customers in multiple markets including HVAC, refrigeration and appliance, electronics cooling, power generation, petrochemical and chemical processing. Wolverine delivers the most advanced metal surface technology enhancements for heat transfer solutions in today's marketplace.

For more information about Wolverine Tube, please visit: www.wlv.com and www.microcooling.com

About Niagara Thermal Products

Based in Niagara Falls, NY, Niagara Thermal Products is a leading designer and manufacturer of highly-engineered heat transfer products.  Niagara Thermal's products are available in a wide variety of materials including Aluminum, Stainless Steel, Copper, Copper Nickel and Nickel Alloys. Its current product line includes heat exchangers (air to air, air to liquid, liquid to liquid) typically used for oil cooling, fuel cooling, intercooling, aftercooling, condensing and evaporating, as well as heat sinks, cold plates and heat transfer fin surfaces used in a wide variety of electronics, telecommunications and laser applications. The Company serves a wide range of markets, including defense, aerospace, marine, electronics, telecommunications, fuel cells, power generation, and several niche commercial and industrial segments

For more information about Niagara Thermal, please visit www.niagarathermal.com

Contact:

Peter Beucher

Director, MicroCool

Corporate Headquarters      

200 Clinton Avenue W., Suite 1000

Huntsville, AL 35801

Phone: 256.990.0225

FAX: 256.890.0470

[email protected]

Contact:

Mark Parisi

Director of New Product Development

Niagara Thermal Products

3315 Haseley Drive

Niagara Falls, New York 14304

Phone: 716-297-0652 ext. 2440

Fax: 716-297-2550

[email protected]

SOURCE Wolverine Tube, Inc.