Press: Impressive product variety and sophisticated engineering

With its "Rittal - The System" programme - Rittal is exhibiting a range of solutions at the Hanover Fair that is unparalleled worldwide. In a synthesis of impressive products, sophisticated engineering tools and comprehensive services, the manufacturer has combined its overall competence to form a single system package. Customised industrial applications for industry, building services and energy technology, as well as for IT and telecommunications can be assembled from a single modular system.
At the Hanover Fair, alongside its "Rittal - The System" highlight, the company is placing emphasis on systems consulting, with the aim of making energy savings visible. Efficient engineering plays an important role in cutting costs. Rittal's portfolio includes software for the planning, designing and manufacturing of enclosures, as well as planning software for switchgear systems, a climate control calculation application, and configuration tools for almost every product group.
This year's appearance at the fair impressively demonstrates just how quick Rittal is at picking up on the issues of the future. For the first time, Rittal is exhibiting a variety of solutions for the intelligent electricity grid of the future. These products include the RiCell Flex fuel cells, which this year has been nominated for the renowned international technology prize, the Hermes Award. Rittal has addressed the second major innovation topic - electromobility - with its improved concept for power charging stations. And Rittal is even exhibiting a world first, the autonomous data centre, in the outdoor area between Hall 11 and 12. The Rittal Data Centre Container is being shown, supplied with power from a cogeneration plant made by its sister company Würz Energy.
Besides this, Rittal will be presenting a whole series of innovations. These include, for example, innovative climate control solutions such as the new generation of TopTherm fan-and-filter units, and the TopTherm Chiller recooler range. Together with Elpro, Rittal is presenting a new rack-mounted system for low-voltage switchgear at the Hanover Fair. The basis of the outgoing feeder panels as a fully rack-mounted system is the Ri4Power system, by means of which Versions 1 to 4 can be made from one single system of "building blocks". Plant constructors also receive comprehensive support in assembly work from the further improved Power Engineering planning software, now available in Version 5.0. And of course, visitors can look forward also to new developments in the enclosure segment, for example in the field of hygienic design. A new plug inlet system is making it easier to assemble cables in enclosures and cabinets.
Anyone who missed these IT highlights at CeBIT 2010 now has a second chance to see them at the Hanover Fair: In a glass Live Data Centre, Rittal is showing the infrastructure components in productive use.
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Rittal GmbH & Co. KG

Rittal GmbH & Co. KG, which has its headquarters in Herborn, Germany, is one of the world's leading system suppliers for housing and enclosure technologies, power distribution systems, system climate control and IT infrastructure. Customers from all sectors of industry, from mechanical and plant engineering, as well as from the IT and telecoms market, are making use of system solutions from Rittal.

Its broad product range also includes complete solutions for modular and energy-efficient data centres: from innovative security concepts for data systems (formerly known as Litcos) through to physical data and system security for IT infrastructures (formerly known as Lampertz). The leading software providers Eplan and Mind8 - Rittal subsidiaries - are supplementing the Rittal product portfolio with interdisciplinary engineering solutions.

Founded in 1961, Rittal is now active worldwide with 12 production sites, 63 subsidiaries and 40 agencies. With 9,000 employees worldwide, Rittal is the largest company of the proprietor-run Friedhelm Loh Group of Haiger, Germany. The entire group employs more than 10,500 people and generated revenues of more than € 2.2 billion in 2008. Further information at www.rittal.com and www.friedhelm-loh-group.com.