eDrive Compressor cuts lifecycle costs for rail freight operator
Unicla Model: UD150-72V Application: VL Class Locomotive Contractor: Adam Reynolds, Don’t Lose Your Cool When unforeseen downtime can run into tens of thousands of dollars per hour for machine operators, being able to identify and solve issues quickly and get the equipment back into service is paramount. Unicla Australia technicians Daniel Brown and Jon Mitchell […]
Bauma 2022: The Unicla Wrap-up
Bauma is the world’s leading trade fair for construction machinery, building material machines, mining machines, construction vehicles and construction equipment. This year the show spanned 7 days in October with close to 500,000 visitors, 50% of which travelled internationally to see the latest innovations in Munich. Although the world has fundamentally changed over the past […]
Sustainability, Efficiency and Technology at IAA Expo
IAA 2022 Wrap-up IAA Transportation is one of the world’s biggest transport exhibitions and the 2022 event has just wrapped up in Hannover. Held over six jam-packed days, the IAA Transportation expo showcases the most significant technological innovations and concepts from the transport sector, this year presented in a new ‘complete mobility’ concept that includes […]
The best hydraulic drive just got better
‘Plug and play’ design eliminates complex hydraulic connections Decades of engineering rigour have produced a best-in-class product, validated by exhaustive testing in our environmental test chamber. This has resulted in the Gen II Unicla UPH Hydraulic Drive: a compressor designed for universal application and freedom of installation. Integrated solenoid controls for simple installation Our Generation […]
Unicla history book launched at event in Queensland
The book ‘Unicla and the Midnight Technician’ chronicling more than five decades of Unicla International company history and stories of people involved, was officially launched last week with a small event at SuperCool Group’s global R&D centre in Ormeau, Queensland. Author and SuperCool Group MD Mark Mitchell, a major Unicla shareholder and Director of Global […]
History book “Unicla and the Midnight Technician” now on sale
Unicla International is proud to announce the launch of a book chronicling the company’s history, titled “Unicla and the Midnight Technician”. Written by Unicla part-owner and Director Global Marketing and Technical Support, Mark Mitchell, this is a colourful story about the fascinating people who supplied and shaped the vehicle air conditioning and transport refrigeration technology […]
Flowcharts help navigate contaminated refrigerant dilemmas
The retrofitting of hydrocarbon or other highly flammable refrigerants into automotive air-conditioning systems in some countries including Australia, combined with the global issue of counterfeit refrigerants that may or may not be what is stated on the packaging, has caused a confusing environment for technicians. For this reason, Unicla publishes special procedure charts to help […]
Unicla dealer is bushfire hero
Darrel Hursey has been selling Unicla compressors for many years and owns a business called Tumut Auto Electrics with his wife Carol, in the Snowy Mountains region of New South Wales in Australia. He is a volunteer firefighter and during the recent bushfire season he spent a total of two months off work to fight […]
Unicla eDrive research paper presented at ASHRAE conference
Griffith University PhD candidate Mohammad Arqam delivered a presentation based on research conducted during the development of Unicla International’s eDrive compressors at the ASHRAE Winter Conference in Orlando, Florida, this month. Arqam, currently based at the Gold Coast campus of Griffith University, worked with Unicla on thermal mass transfer modelling during design of the eDrive’s […]
2020 events
In 2020, Unicla International will exhibit at a number of premier industry events around Australia and the globe. We always look forward to meeting with colleagues and customers past present and future, so if you are planning on attending any of the following trade shows and conventions this year, please be sure to stop by […]