Vale Peter Yee – 7th May 2025
Vale Peter Yee – 7th May 2025 The Unicla family is deeply mourning the passing of our Managing Director, Peter Yee. He passed away peacefully in Hong Kong this week, surrounded by his close family, after a brief but courageous battle with an illness diagnosed just over a year ago. We are profoundly saddened by […]
An industry icon passes
An industry icon passes Our industry, along with the Bitzer organisation, mourns the loss of Christiane Schaufler. She assumed the roles of Chairwoman of the Supervisory Board of Bitzer SE and Chairwoman of the Board of Trustees of The Schaufler Foundation following the passing of her husband, Peter Schaufler, in 2015. While public records meticulously […]
Connecting and Reconnecting at Bauma 2025
Connecting and Reconnecting at Bauma 2025 As one of the biggest trade shows in the world spread over 18 halls and a massive outdoor fairground, Bauma is the world’s leading trade fair for construction machinery, building material machines, mining machines, construction vehicles and construction equipment. With around 600,000 visitors from more than 200 countries and […]
Cool Mavericks: a living history of the larrikins who showed the world how to air condition anything on wheels
A book called ‘Cool Mavericks’ reveals for the first time how colourful characters fired with gold-rush zeal worked out how to air condition every car ever made, leaving the top car makers out of the game for almost half a century. How it all started The buyers of the vast majority of air conditioned Australian […]
Design award for Unicla is dedicated to the world’s midnight technicians
The only independent automotive compressor manufacturer in the world, Unicla International, is celebrating its 60th anniversary in October 2024, and the icing on its cake was its recent win as best product in an engineering class at the Australian Good Design Awards. The award was for its eDrive electric compressor, released in 2020, that the […]
Unicla eDrive Wins Good Design Award
Unicla International’s new eDrive compressor has been hailed as a ‘standout’ winner of the 2024 Australian Good Design Award engineering category. The 80-strong global jury panel was impressed by the eDrive’s innovative approach to thermal management in mobile applications. Its focus on sustainability and efficiency represented a significant advancement in the industry, showcasing a forward-thinking […]
Unicla at Lat.Bus Transpublico 2024
VMG Aires and Unicla on Show Lat.Bus Transpublico 2024 was a great success last week with the trade show confirming its status as the premiere bus and transport exhibition in South America. Held at Expo Imigrantes in Sao Paulo, it is the largest urban mobility event in Latin America, which brings together all segments of […]
Unicla and SuperCool’s Secret Role in Refrigerant Retrofitting
https://youtu.be/qKgB6-6djcA How covert tests in our Gold Coast workshop helped a global environmental innovation Just over 30 years ago, SuperCool announced that R134a refrigerant could be simply and reliably retrofitted in motor cars operating with R12 refrigerant, heavily reducing CFC emissions. SuperCool’s Southport workshop was the first in Australia to trial the replacement of […]
What does a Yamaha TA125 race bike have to do with the weather?
Unicla director Mark Mitchell explains his relationship with racing two stroke motorcycles in the 1970s and testing HVAC systems in various psychometric conditions. https://youtu.be/TJ1ZSUqzejc In this video Mark explains as a teenager he raced Yamaha two stroke motorcycles in the 1970s. A Yamaha TA125 was his pride and joy, and the bike on which […]
Lighter, Simpler, Safer: Improving This Loco’s AC System with the eDrive
Unicla Model: UD150-72V eDrive Application: D Class Locomotive Contractor: Don’t Lose Your Cool The Challenge When the 2-cylinder compressor in the AC unit of this D Class Locomotive was due for replacement, Adam Reynolds from Don’t Lose Your Cool reached out to the team at Unicla. The existing system had been in operation for 20+ […]
