Copeland Innovation Center is founded in Alpago

Source: press office Confindustria Belluno Dolomites

ALPAGO. First the climb among the world leaders in energy-efficient heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration solutions. Now the investment in a unique research, development and design business hub. Copeland (a global climate technology company), opened this morning (Friday, Sept. 29) a truly unique Innovation Center within its Alpago facility.
It is a multifunctional space of about 1,000 square meters equipped with a cutting-edge laboratory dedicated to research and development, as well as training and reception areas. The Innovation Center will provide cutting-edge technologies for Copeland’s electronic controller business in Italy.

MISSION
The facility will be used by the Copeland team in Belluno (Coperland Controls S.r.l., which employs more than 200 people). The Belluno Business Unit has experienced rapid growth over the years, and the launch of this Innovation Center marks the next chapter in Copeland’s sustainability journey in Italy.
The Copeland Innovation Center will provide a new level of excellence in controller innovation by enabling Copeland to anticipate market needs by developing innovative and sustainable solutions, increase customer satisfaction by helping customers achieve their sustainability goals, reduce “time-to-market” for both products and customers, certify the functionality and effectiveness of products by being able to test them in real applications, and finally provide the market with even more reliable and safe products and solutions.
Investments in Innovation Centers like this one in Belluno are critical for Copeland; research and development departments around the world will help Copeland play a key role in improving the energy efficiency of heating and cooling solutions.

STRUCTURE

The Copeland Innovation Center has a number cutting-edge rooms for research and development, including an Innovation lab for testing new equipment, a Market lab with testing in real supermarket and convenience store applications, a climate chamber for testing equipment in all climatic conditions of temperature, humidity, and air velocity, an outdoor area with Market lab machines so they can be tested in real applications, and a reception area for customer engagement and training.
Innovations from the Copeland Innovation Center will help customers achieve their sustainability goals, whether it’s efficiently managing refrigeration equipment in a supermarket or heating and cooling their homes more responsibly.

COPELAND
Copeland is a global company dedicated to climate technologies designed for sustainability. Earlier this year, Copeland became an autonomous company, formerly known as Emerson Climate Technologies. Today, Copeland is strengthening its 100-year tradition through constant innovation in the industry, placing this new stand-alone company at the forefront of positive change.
Copeland creates sustainable residential, commercial, and industrial spaces through HVACR technologies, helps maintain food integrity throughout the cold chain, and provides comfort to people around the world. Copeland’s more than 18,000 employees provide the innovation needed to make the world a more sustainable place to live. With more than 3 thousand patents, Copeland’s wide range of technologies satisfies customer for all their HVAC/R needs.
Copeland’s clients can be found in more than 110 countries. Each has specific needs based on its location, and Copeland is ready to meet them. Globally, Copeland has 27 separate manufacturing plants and 12 research and development facilities, ten (5+5) in Europe and nearly 1,500 employees across the continent.
The work done in Belluno helps control temperature throughout the cold chain, ensuring the safety and quality of food and perishable goods. This includes the transportation of goods by sea, land and air. Copeland provides tracking solutions for perishable and refrigerated goods, tracking about 30% of shipments each year by road and sea.
Copeland’s technologies also monitor the storage of perishable goods and where they are consumed or sold through solutions for HVAC, refrigeration, and facility controls at the site and “enterprise” levels. This includes 70% of supermarkets in the United States alone, the most electricity-intensive type of commercial building.

Translated by Giada Gubert

Intern at the Chamber of Commerce of Treviso – Belluno |Dolomites