ACR Journal

February | March 2021 WHOLESALER & DISTRIBUTOR 18 Volume 7 No.2 Cool Designs expands portfolio as growth continues With some major product additions to its growing air conditioning and HVAC portfolio, and the prospect of a gradual return to normality this year as the vaccine roll-out accelerates, things look set fair for the UK distributor. “Like most companies we had a dicult first half,” says Darrel Birkett, managing director of CDL. “However business recovered quickly. We switched our customer training online via the Toshiba portal, and happily the second half of 2020 was up on the previous year.” He added: “We were also fortunate to end the year with an extra £1million-worth of orders in our project bank than when we started. Given the back-drop, with a global pandemic and associated disruption to life and business, this is a pretty positive outcome.” One of the company’s star products, Toshiba’s award-winning VRF system, has just The challenging business conditions faced by companies last year have not dimmed Cool Design’s ambitions for continuing growth during 2021 and beyond. had a major refresh with the launch of the seventh generation SMMS-u series. This breaks new ground in terms of eciency, connectivity, flexibility, compactness and ease of installation – made possible by several innovations, including a new triple- chamber rotary compressor, developed in- house by Toshiba, which is a global first. With a refrigerant charge almost 50% less than the previous model, it also o™ers significant safety and environmental benefits. Other key benefits of SMMS-u include: • Total piping length increased to 1,200m, with 250m permissible from the outdoor unit to farthest indoor unit, extending application to an even wider range of building types and configurations. • A height di™erence of up to 110m possible between outdoor and indoor units, giving project designers even greater flexibility in applying the system. • The ability to connect up to 128 indoor units, made possible by a new communications protocol, TU2C-Link, again developed Toshiba. This enables the system to be applied in larger applications previously only suitable for air conditioning using chillers. • A 200% diversity ratio, giving great flexibility for use in di™erent types of building. • A super-compact chassis for outdoor units,