News
19/5/2011 - SWISS GERMAN OFFICE MOVES

From June 1, 2011 our Swiss German Office will be transferred to Rotkreuz. This new location in the heart of Switzerland will allow our employees to better manage operations and customer contacts The new address is: Lettenstrasse 11, 6343 Rotkreuz

12/5/2011 - RCS: FROM TODAY LTD COMPANY

With a capital increase of CHF 80,000  the company was transformed from a Limited Liability Company (LLC) into a Limited Company (Ltd.).

The Board of Directors of the Company consists of the following members:

Davide Chessa
Jean-Claude Machoud
Filippo Lombardi
Daniela Martelli

 

 

25/2/2011 - Mr. Good Tower Evapco
We are pleased to inform you that  RCS  has been made Mr. Good Tower Evapco for Switzerland. RCS was already exclusive distributor Evapco. From January 1st, RCS is the only assistance center authorized by  Evapco for sales, repairing and maintenance.

Click here for more information about Mr. Good Tower Evapco
21/2/2011 - Energy efficiency is the formula of the future!


Refrigeration news:

  • FRIGO SCREW CL A (A-class) for a high efficiency at high condensation temperatures
  • TURBOCOR machines with flooded evaporator are available in various sizes starting from the summer.


Air-conditioning news:

  • The air-conditioning solution EDV COOLSIDE EVO has been presented on the new test bench in the INROW and INRACK version 
  • Up to 4 internal units on 1 external unit which is equipped with a compressor with adjustable speed and with a microchannel condenser.


The ARI certification continues with the new series of machines!

 

3/2/2011 - Successful test

ETH Zurich tested by Pavia factory two machines 500 kW Turbocor. Together with the designer and the producer a machine was tested under functionning conditions (KW 1/5,5° and RKW 18/22°) at different stages of power.

The machines will soon be working in the Life Sciences Center of ETH.

1/12/2010 - KADER BEN MAHMOUD, COMMERCIAL TECHNICIAN
Our Swiss French team has a new commercial technician, Mr. Kader Ben Mahmoud. Mr. Ben Mahmoud is owner of a degree in electronic and a business training. During his career he had the opportunity to work in a very-known company in Paris where he had been managing for many years the Technical and Customer Service. Welcome to RCS!
17/7/2010 - New climate chamber certified by RC Group
The new certified climate chamber for testing air conditioning systems for technical rooms has been presented today by our partner RC Group to a delegation from RCS. In the massive new construction, condensers and internal units can be tested independently or simultaneously under both standard and extreme conditions and airflows can be verified up to 90,000 m3/h under different static pressures. The new test chamber has been built in a new separate building adjacent to the existing factory.
16/7/2010 - E U R O V E N T
RC GROUP takes part to the Certification Program EUROVENT. A series of machines was tested for energy efficiency.
16/7/2010 - 2010-2011 Season: RCS sponsor of HCAP

Once again RCS trusts in the HCAP team for the next season and is sponsoring the official team T-shirt. RCS will have the opportunity to invite customers and commercial partners in the new PLATINUM LOUNGE.  They will see the games in an exclusive place, with the team management, the main sponsors, and the players in the end of the game.

1/7/2010 - FMI Hospitals, Interlaken
The FMI Hospitals in Interlaken also rely on FRIGO TURBO. The two new compact chillers are now in operation. With 300 kW cooling capacity per 1,3 m2 floor space they are truly exceptional.
17/6/2010 - Pavia: large water chillers

The new production facilities for chillers with a capacity exceeding 600 kW has been presented today by our partner RC Group to a delegation from RCS. It is an impressive hall which will be completed in the coming months. One thing that's very interesting is the adaption of the structure for machine testing which includes huge water storage tanks and electrical substations.

26/5/2010 - Centro Ovale in Chiasso

Two 650 kW air-cooled water chillers with screw compressors has been delivered today to the CENTRO OVALE in Chiasso, one of the most prestigious and modern buildings under construction in Ticino. The units were placed on a reinforced concrete tower which contains all the technical facilities of the building.

 

Click or more information about Centro Ovale.
11/9/2009 - Heat pumps for the new Winteler Garage in Giubiasco

RCS has delivered and put into operation a highly advanced system with 3 reversible water/water heat pumps of 40 kW each. The provided units can produce chilled water or hot water as needed feeding a 4-pipe system which allows a very precise temperature control.

7/8/2009 - RCS is new official sponsor of HCAP
In a press release the Ambrì Piotta Hockey Club today announced RCS as its new official sponsor. In the statement the characteristics that the two partners have in common are emphasized: both have a team that works with passion and energy to remain among the best in Switzerland - all in an environment par excellence linked to the cold.

=> Download the press release
3/8/2009 - New HCAP jersey with RCS logo
RCS is satisfied with the great interest shown by its customers for the matches of the Ambrì Piotta Hockey Club and has therefore decided to strengthen the partnership with the club for the season 2009/2010.

Filippo Lombardi, president of the HCAP – as well as managing director of RCS - and the new coach Benoît Laporte proudly presented the new team jersey.

A great season full of nice events offered by RCS is expecting you in the Valascia!
13/7/2009 - The Darwin Airline's data center
Darwin Airline, the airline company from Ticino, has chosen RCS for cooling its data center. The provided unit is a direct air free-cooling system which ensures highest energy savings with temperatures below 20° C. During the winter months the waste heat from the server room is also used to heat the offices.
10/7/2009 - Athletissima 2009 in Lausanne
At the Athletissima Meeting of 7th July 2009 in Lausanne RCS has received several customers and planners of the region in the space reserved for SMEs. It was a pleasant get-together in a relaxed atmosphere.
14/5/2009 - RCS provides TASIS with heat pump
Even one of the most important and prestigious schools in Switzerland, the American School in Montagnola, has decided to cool its auditorium with a ducted 70 kW heat pump of RCS.
4/5/2009 - New water cooled chiller for Brico in Cadenazzo
RCS has recently supplied a new water cooled chiller to the Brico-Do It Yourself store in Cadenazzo. This is a further company that relies on RCS technology and experience in matters of conditioning.
25/4/2009 - First «RCS Energy Event»
The first Energy Event organized by RCS was held on Friday 24 April 2009 at the Ferrari Showroom in Grancia. In the spectacular setting of the "prancing horse" about sixty invited of the industry have followed an interesting conference on energy policy of the Federal Government and on several new offerings on the market. Keynote speaker was Filippo Lombardi, chairman of the Energy Commission to the Council as well as a board member of RCS. The conference was followed by a rich cocktail and interesting discussions among the participants.
7/2/2009 - RCS sponsor of the Hockey Club Lugano for the play-offs
During the play-offs the HCL players will wear a new jersey sponsored by RCS.
The new jersey will be worn for the first time during the last derby of the season.
5/2/2009 - Bethesda Hospital in Basle
RCS has delivered a new chiller with turbo-compressor to the Bethesda Hospital in Basle, member of the “Swiss Leading Hospitals”.
RCS has already been able to acquire great experience with these oil-free compressors Turbocor. In fact, RCS has already provided the same technology to the Merian Iselin Hospital in Basle and to the BMW Sauber building in Hinwil. This refrigeration system ensures significant energy savings.
5/2/2009 - New office in Biberist (SO)
From 1st March 2009, the RCS area office in the German speaking part of Switzerland will move from Wallisellen to Biberist. Thanks to the new location RCS will be able to guarantee a more efficient logistics and an excellent customer service. The new building and the surrounding area offer ideal conditions for the new warehouse and the loading/unloading of the trucks.

New address:
RCS GmbH
Grüttstrasse 96
4562 Biberist
18/12/2008 - New cooling tower for ABB Turgi (AG)
RCS has supplied and installed on site a new 1300 kW cooling tower for ABB in Turgi. An identical cooling tower is already successfully in use since 10 years at ABB. That’s the reason why the customer decided again for a quiet Evapco LSWA cooling tower whit a sound pressure level of only 54 db (A) in 15m.
The spectacular installation of the equipment lasted 7 hours and the cooling tower is now available for daily use.

=> Installation
9/12/2008 - RCS on TV

RCS has recently been presented during the broadcast «Gulliver» on the local TV Teleticino. In this weekly program, the renowned journalist Gianfranco De Santis presents successful companies from Ticino.

Download the video => Company portrait of RCS

22/10/2008 - New office in Aclens (VD)
RCS has opened today a new branch office in Aclens, which focuses on sales and service. Thanks to this new organizational structure RCS will strengthen its presence in the French speaking part of Switzerland and respond even better to the needs of the local customers. The new area office also has a large stock of spare parts.
 
The new contact address is:

RCS Sarl
18 ch du Coteau
1123 Aclens
4/9/2008 - RCS and the Ambrì Piotta Hockey Club
RCS is a big fan of the Ambrì Piotta Hockey Club. Two entrance tickets for the "Golden Tribune” (Tribuna Oro) are available to our customers who wish to follow live the matches of the season 08/09.
Please contact us: info@rcs.ch or Phone 0842 000 007.

Don’t forget to return the tickets as soon as possible after the match.
2/7/2008 - RCS supplies two water chillers to Bucherer
Two new water chillers R410 of the Manta series have been installed in the Bucherer jewelry store in Locarno. The Bucherer branch in Lugano had been previously equipped with identical machines.
This new product range works extremely silently and is very compact.
30/6/2008 - Admiral Casino: two new water chillers
This morning RCS has delivered two new water chillers with 250 kW each to the Admiral Casino in Mendrisio. These two machines are in addition to the water chiller of 500 kW, which is in operation since 2 years.
24/6/2008 - Installation Monitoring
During the warranty period RCS offers a free monitoring system on the web for most water chillers. This system allows our technicians to control the correct operation of machinery and, if necessary, intervene from remote workstation. Our customers can also check their installations through our site.
24/6/2008 - RCS for McDonald's
After the installation of a Trilogy system for McDonald's in Geneva, we have now also put into service a fluid cooler for the branch of Pambio-Noranco.
20/6/2008 - New water chillers for ETH in Basle
RCS tested successfully together with the project manager and the planners a new compressor for refrigeration with oil-free magnetic bearings at the RC Group of Pavia. This refrigeration plant will be supplied to the ETH in Basle.
23/5/2008 - RCS and Emil Frey
RCS has supplied a water chiller for the new exhibition spaces at the Emil Frey in Pambio Noranco.
2/5/2008 - RCS and Radio 3iii
Radio 3iii has recently moved to Melide into a new building with high technology. The house is a wooden construction, which also takes into account the ecological values. RCS contributed to this project with his know-how of climate technology and supplied a heat winner with integrated cooling and heat pump.
7/4/2008 - Coolside for Bladeserver
RC Group presented "Coolside" at Milan fair, an air conditioning system with a new concept of cooling server rooms which is granting in extremely compact dimensions the "killing" of the Hot Spots.
28/3/2008 - Water chillers delivered to Palazzo Mantegazza
New water chillers have been provided to the Mantegazza building in Lugano-Paradiso, one of the most renowned constructions in Lugano. The reversible units (hot/cold) use water of Lake Lugano for heat dissipation.
Link to palazzo Mantegazza
10/3/2008 - Hilsa 2008 feedback
Thank you very much to all friends who visited our stand at the Hilsa Fair.
7/2/2008 - New company profile
In order to be better appreciated by our customers we have just prepared a new company profile
Image Prospect1.pdf
8/1/2008 - RCS at Hilsa

RCS will participate to Hilsa, the most important exhibition in Switzerland for HVAC that willbe held in Basel from the 22nd to 26th of Jannuary 2008.
Every person interested to this event, may download the invitation form in PDF format.
We would be glad to see you at the stand.

Link to the exhibition web site
Invitation for the exibitition
1/10/2007 - RCS General Catalogue

From today the new general catalogue written in alle the national language is available.
If you are interested to receive a copy please do not hesitate to ask for it.

27/4/2007 - New building of BMW Sauber in Hinwill

RCS  has tested at RC Group factrory in Pavia together with the consultant engineer and the intaller, 3 chillers with the new oil free turbo compressor to be supplied to BMW Sauber for the cooling of the new building; the famous Formula 1 Team in Hinwill. The supply is also including a large number of close control units and fan coils.

16/2/2007 - RCS and RTSI
RCS supply displacement Computer Room Air Conditioning units of Heat Hunter series for public Radio and TV of Italian speaking Cantons of Switzerland.
31/1/2007 - Eng. Machoud become part of our Team

From today, Ing, Jean Claude Machoud already partner and consultant of RCS, started in our company as director and responsable for the french speaking area. The presence of Mr. Machoud person with long commercial experience for the French part of Switzerland, that perfectly knows the products from RC Group that is selling since more than 15 years, will be extremely important to build an efficient net of sales and service in the french part of Switzerland.

29/12/2006 - MIS Merian Iselin Hospital in Basel
RCS started today the first water chillers of 500 kW with magnetic bearings for the Hospital Merian Iselin in Basel, member of the Leading Hospital of Switzerland. New chillers will grant and exceptional energy efficeny to the Hospital. The second chillers of 500 kW will be started the Jannuary.
21/12/2006 - RCS travel with Smart
RCS recently bought 2 Smart cars that are renewing the actual RCS  cars fleet with a new modern style.
24/11/2006 - CIBA Basel
RCS supply 2 free cooling water chillers of 300 kW each and close control units for an important building in Basel for CIBA.
22/9/2006 - Siemens Volketswil
RCS supply 2 free cooling water chillers for a total colling capacity installed of 700 kW for an important Siemens building .
21/7/2006 - Casino' Admiral
RCS supply a new water chiller for the Casino' Admiral in Mendrisio.
15/6/2006 - New cooling plant ofr AGIE in Zandone
RCS has supplied 2 water chillers and 2 heat pump units for the production factory of the AGIE in Zandone, the meaning of the project is to give priority of heat recovery in winter were it exhist a constant cooling load and use heat pump in the mild seasons. The installed cooling capacity in 1.500 kW.
7/6/2006 - RCS cooling Manor shop in Bellinzona
After Manor of Canobbio, Locarno, RCS supply also the water chiller for Manor in Bellinzona, again an important customer renewing his trust.
23/3/2006 - RCS and Fly/Athleticum
RCS recently supplied 2 water chillers RC Group for the cooling of the building where Fly and Atleticum shops are located in Lugano Grancia for a total cooling capacity of 400 kW.
17/3/2006 - RCS and Teleticino
RCS supply close control units of Pegasus range for the data centre of Teleticino the only private television in Ticino.
7/7/2005 - RCS and ROLEX
RCS just signed the contract for the supply for close control units for the building of Les Acacias. This important reference confirm one more time the reputation of RC Group products in the French part of Switzerland.
4/7/2005 - RCS move to Manno
Our office in Melide are already too small for our organization, we move to industrial area of Manno were we will organize a stock of products and spare parts, we thank you very much Teleticino for all the help given during this company start up fase.
9/5/2005 - Sales agreement with EVAPCO
RCS is happy to inform about the new exclusive distibution agreement on the Swiss market with the company Evapco, world leader for cooling towers.
18/3/2005 - IBSA Grancia
RCS supply  a multifunction liquid chiller of Multiplo range from RC Group for the new building of IBSA in Grancia.
7/3/2005 - Chiasso custome clearance - Minergie
RCS has commissioned the multifunction chiller - heat pump of RC Group installed in the chiasso custome clearance building, the biggest Minergie (2363m2) every built in Ticino ed one of the biggest in Switzerland. This particolar units allow to recover cold water during the heating mode and recover warm water during the cooling mode.
3/1/2005 - RCS starts its activity

Today starts the activity of our company. We are in Melide, inside the building of Teleticino, we are 5 people: Davide Chessa, coming from an experience of 13 years as Export Manager of the company RC Group in Pavia, Cornelia Parma, our secretary and aministration responsible, Wolfgang Stoffel, coming from a long experience in air conditioning, Jean Claude Machoud, consultant and agent for the french part of Switzerland and Matteo Fanfaroni, technical consultant coming from RC Group of Pavia. Our organization has as target the exclusive distribution and the service of RC Group products on the Swiss Market.