Product category: Heatsinks and Thermal Management
News Release from: Laird Technologies
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 20 December 2006
Acquisition adds to
thermal management portfolio
Laird Technologies has acquired Supercool, a provider of custom designed thermoelectric based assemblies for thermal management across a wide range of markets
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Laird Technologies has announced the acquisition of Coollab, which trades as Supercool. Sales revenues for 2006 are expected to be $11 million. Supercool is a leading provider of custom designed thermoelectric based assemblies which are used in thermal management applications across a wide range of markets.
These products integrate thermoelectric modules, temperature control systems, heat exchangers, external packaging and, in some cases, fans or pumps to provide a complete thermal management system to their customers.
Supercool's products are used in a diverse range of applications in the telecommunications, medical, food and beverage, electronics and automotive industries.
'With our acquisition of Melcor last year, we established a capability in design and manufacture of thermoelectric modules, which are the engines to pull heat from sensitive electronic devices, and to a lesser extent capabilities in design of the final products in which these thermoelectric modules are used', said Martin Rapp, CEO of Laird Technologies.
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'With Supercool, we now have greatly enhanced capabilities in offering full cooling systems to our customers around the world'.
'Supercool developed very well by focusing on adding value in our thermal management products', said Pavel Cech, Chairman of Supercool, 'and I am confident that access to the global footprint of Laird Technologies will result in enhanced sales growth and opportunities to launch a wider range of innovative cooling products'.
Supercool is headquartered in Gothenburg, Sweden and has a business development centre in San Rafael, California.
The company's sales are concentrated in Europe but sales growth is most rapid in North America.
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