Maintain Critical Process Heating and Cooling Uptime
Copeland empowers industrial operators with reliable, efficient and sustainable process heating and cooling technologies that maintain uptime and reduce operating costs.
Advancing the next generation of low-carbon thermal systems
Precise temperature control is essential for consistent product quality, safe production and reliable throughput in nearly every industrial operation — from food and beverage to pharmaceuticals, chemicals, pulp/paper and manufacturing.
Today’s operators face mounting challenges: maintaining uptime in continuous processes, managing rising energy costs and transitioning to eco-friendly refrigerants. With decades of application expertise, Copeland’s Vilter and SPH solutions help customers modernize process heating and cooling systems to improve performance, reduce total cost of ownership and meet the evolving standards of a low-carbon future.
Across process industries, demand for technologies that deliver exceptional reliability, energy optimization and high performance with low-maintenance requirements continues to grow. Meanwhile, decarbonization policies and operator sustainability goals are accelerating the transition from fossil-fuel heating to integrated heat recovery strategies and the adoption of low-global warming potential (GWP) and natural refrigerant technologies.
With the recent acquisition of SPH Sustainable Process Heat, Copeland has significantly expanded our industrial heating portfolio under the Vilter brand. From industrial heat pumps and process chillers to single screw and reciprocating compression technologies, we now offer an even broader range of solutions to help process industry operators maintain uptime in the most rigorous applications, minimize operating costs and cut carbon emissions. Our expanded capabilities enable us to support a wider range of refrigerants, optimize performance and efficiency and provide cost-effective ownership while reducing carbon emissions.
Turnkey support for process industries
Copeland offers comprehensive support and services to help operators maintain uptime and maximize the return on their equipment investments. Backed by decades of process industry expertise, purpose-built industrial technologies and a proven track record of reliability, Copeland provides solutions that address processing plants unique operational requirements.
Why choose Copeland?
With over a century of experience in industrial process heating and cooling innovations, our Vilter brand offers trusted solutions for food and beverage, pharmaceutical, chemical/petrochemical, pulp/paper and other manufacturing sectors. We understand the variability of these applications and help operators by developing configured-to-order and custom solutions that meet their unique operational requirements, achieve their decarbonization goals and ensure process uptime above all else.
What sets us apart:
- Integrated heat recovery for process industries
- Improved energy efficiency and consistent performance
- Reduced carbon emissions and operational costs
- Reliable, customizable solutions for industrial processing requirements
- Decades of trusted industrial process heating and cooling experience
- Comprehensive service and support
- Specialization in designing, manufacturing and servicing heat pumps for industrial steam applications with temperatures up to 180°C
Supporting the transition to energy-efficient, low-carbon processing
Copeland supports leading industrial processors in maintaining uptime and decarbonizing their operations with low-GWP, energy-efficient heat pump and compression technologies. Recent examples demonstrate our ability to develop custom solutions that meet a range of operational and decarbonization goals.
Decarbonizing pharmaceutical production with energy-efficient compression
Challenge: The People’s Government of Yinan County, China and Shandong Linuo Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. led the modernization of its pharmaceutical production base, the Yinan Linuo Pharmaceutical Digital Intelligence Manufacturing Project. The operation needed to reduce energy consumption while stabilizing process heating and cooling temperatures throughout widely fluctuating ambient conditions.
Solution: Copeland scroll compression with enhanced vapor injection (EVI) technology served as the backbone of the facility’s heat pumps designed for low-, medium- and high-temperature requirements. The solutions enable Nuotong Technology’s T6000 vapor compression unit to stably supply saturated steam at 150°C while reducing the facility’s energy consumption and carbon footprint.
Decarbonizing auto parts production with energy-efficient compression
Challenge: Advance Thermo Solution (ATS) specializes in the design, research, development, production, assembly, sale and servicing of heat transfer solutions. ATS supported a major auto parts manufacturer in Chachoengsao province, Thailand, for its production process, which requires a consistent, reliable supply of 162-163°F (72-73°C) water with heat pump powered by Copeland ZW KB compressor. Before using heat pumps, the company used LPG boilers to heat water.
Solution: Since upgrading its heat pump technologies, the factory has enjoyed significant benefits including halving its annual energy bill and improving safety in the plant from high pressure boilers.
Smart heat recovery cooks up sweet and sustainable solution
Challenge: After examining its heating and cooling systems used in confectionery production, Nestlé sought a means to reduce the environmental impact of its operations. Plant managers wanted a solution with the highest coefficient of performance (COP) possible, low annual operating and maintenance costs, using a refrigerant with zero GWP.
Solution: A dual-purpose ammonia heat pump system — leveraging Vilter’s single-screw compressors — delivers chilled glycol at 32°F (0°C) and lifts it to 140°F (60°C) hot water in a single stage. The system can produce 14,000 gallons (52,996 liters) of water daily, much more efficiently than their previous coal-fired steam generator.
Low-charge ammonia helps pharmaceutical company eliminate HFCs
Challenge: Power is especially expensive on the island of Puerto Rico. So Roche needed a refrigeration system that was not just environmentally-friendly, but also energy efficient. Solving for improved efficiency was further complicated by the need to protect pharmaceutical compliance and overall system reliability.
Solution: Copeland worked with Roche to build a Vilter industrial refrigeration package that uses a low refrigerant charge (about 1 lb/ton of refrigeration). This helps improve safety and reduces certification costs. The entire system was factory built and ready to operate when delivered to the site.
