2019-08-15. Starting on 01 January 2020, there will be bans on the use of certain refrigerants as well as new regulations and rules on the operation, servicing and labelling of cooling and air-conditioning plants. Rittal has the answers to the users of refrigeration equipment questions on what to do now.

2019-08-07. In July, the Haiger-based Rittal Innovation Center welcomed its 10,000th visitor three years after its opening. The great interest visitors have shown in live presentations and training courses underscore the high demand for innovations in panel building and switchgear manufacturing.

2019-08-05. “betop” has received the highest honour at the 25th Communicator Awards. The international programme is one of the world’s leading creative competitions, receiving approximately 6000 entries each season. The Friedhelm Loh Group’s magazine was placed first in the Design and Print category.

2019-08-02. Circle B and Rittal have decided to move the first European Open Compute Project (OCP) Experience Center to the maincubes AMS01 datacenter in Amsterdam.

2019-08-01. On 10 June, Rittal received the coveted Bosch Global Supplier Award, granted every two years. From a total of some 43,000 suppliers around the world, Bosch honoured 47 companies from 15 countries.

2019-07-15. Starting in January 2020, ship exhaust gases will only be permitted to have a sulphur content of 0.5 percent. Consequently, the maritime industry is working on innovative solutions to further reduce the environmental impact of large engines.

2019-06-28. He was appointed to the Rittal Management Board with effect from 1 June 2019. He is responsible for sales in the regions of Europe, North and South America, Asia-Pacific, as well as the Middle East and Africa. In addition, he is in charge of Service, Internal Sales, as well as Operations.

2019-06-25. Rittal has significantly improved its cooling technology for machines and enclosures with its new “Blue e” chillers in the 11 to 25 kW output class range. Using 40 percent less refrigerant, the devices are making an important contribution to sustainable environmental protection.

2019-06-24. Global strategic partnership targets IoT environments in smart industries with high real-time data loads. Joint solutions will allow easy and fast implementation of IT infrastructures with powerful edge datacenters (from single rack to turnkey-ready datacenter container)

2019-06-18. Together for the customers: Rittal and Eplan, two companies of the Friedhelm Loh Group, officially inaugurated their new location in Pioltello, northern Italy, on 17 May 2019.

2019-06-14. The VX25 large enclosure system from Rittal has won the 2019 German Innovation Award. The German Design Council honoured the innovative large enclosure system on May 28 as the winner in the “Excellence in Business to Business/Machines & Engineering” category.

2019-05-28. Cooling technology for outdoor applications today must function reliably even in extreme heat and cold, moisture and dust. But the requirements are even higher.

2019-05-24. The Friedhelm Loh Group has again been named one of Germany’s leading employers. The Top Employers Institute has awarded this accolade to the family-owned and -operated business for now the eleventh time in a row.

2019-05-15. E-mobility is gaining in importance and is set to become available to a broad user market. The expansion of the charging infrastructure is helping to boost confidence in e-mobility and reduce the current problems of range, infrastructure and price. Rittal supports the entire value chain.

2019-05-09. Giving a little hope to people in need is what moti-vates the employees of the Friedhelm Loh Group to make their traditional annual donation. In 2018, together with owner Professor Friedhelm Loh, they collected €200,000 to help regional non-profit institutions as well as Médecins sans Frontières for its work in Yemen.

2019-05-08. At the IFFA, the leading international trade fair for the meat industry, Rittal will be presenting system solutions for enclosure, power distribution and climate control technology that are universally suitable, through to solutions for efficient engineering.

2019-05-03. How can plant engineers in the energy sector automate and industrialise their value chain processes in line with Industry 4.0? From 15 to 17 May, Rittal is appearing at “The smarter E”, a trade fair dedicated to energy, to provide specific answers to these and many other questions and present practical solutions.

2019-04-25. • Rittal, SICP and WestfalenWIND IT win first prize at German Data Center Award 2019 • They won the top prize in the “Ideas and research in relation to data centres” category for high-density IT rooms for colocation operation mode • Sustainable solution geared towards standardisation and cost-efficient operation

2019-04-05. Rittal has been helping the Europa-Park in Rust to set up a new data centre. This means that state-of-the-art IT systems will be available when the season starts on 6 April in order to ensure the availability of attractions and rides, as well as the cash register systems.