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APC-MGE and STULZ Form Partnership to Provide Cooling Solutions and Services

August 30, 2007 by Jeff Shepard

APC-MGE and STULZ have agreed to form a powerful team to deliver customers comprehensive, integrated data center cooling solutions and services. Through a new agreement, APC-MGE and STULZ claim that they will bring together experience in critical power and cooling, including APC’s InRow® cooling solutions, perimeter precision air-conditioning and complete service offerings, to deliver comprehensive cooling solutions and services to APC-MGE customers worldwide.

Under the agreement, APC-MGE will add an APC branded perimeter cooling solution manufactured by STULZ to its comprehensive cooling offering, currently lead by its high-density InRow offering. STULZ will be able to offer APC’s InRow cooling systems to its extensive customer base. Both firms will provide full application engineering support for these solutions and APC-MGE will offer services, including maintenance services, through STULZ service partners.

Initially this agreement will cover select countries in Europe with the intention to expand globally. This agreement continues a long history of cooperation, primarily in China, Singapore and the Philippines, where MGE and STULZ worked together for more than 20 years as a sales and service partner.

"Customers can now rely on one vendor to meet all their critical power and cooling needs in the data center," said Christian Corsin, APC-MGE Senior Vice President, Enterprise & Systems. "We are delighted to combine STULZ’s perimeter precision cooling expertise, solutions and services with the innovation and strong customer base of APC-MGE to better help our customers address cooling high efficiency data centers."

"Our customers will benefit from the accumulated know-how of reliable partners in every aspect of critical infrastructure," emphasizes Kurt Plötner, Director of Global Product Sales & Marketing at STULZ. "APC-MGE supplies the electrical systems, and together we supply the mechanics – so we complement one another in an ideal way. At the same time, we will each acquire markets and opportunities that are new to us."