Refrigeration maintenance company Atmosphere Cooling has launched its new manufacturing division, Ark Manufacturing.

It aims to offer high quality, engineer-designed, packaged units for the UK refrigeration industry. The units are designed and built at its new Northamptonshire premises.

Ark Manufacturing now offers two ranges of products; the AR and LC ranges, the first of which consists of condensing units with semi-hermetic compressors, and the second of light industrial and heavy commercial pack systems, with semi-hermetic and screw compressors.

Stand-out products developed so far include multi-compressor packs and systems designed for ATEX and marine environments, such as oil rigs. The packs are specially adapted to suit their unique surroundings and have been successfully used in the Gulf of Mexico and Malta.

The company has been manufacturing the new AR and LC Ranges for several months but has waited until now to officially launch the range. Manufacturing a range of high quality, fully dressed units has been a long term vision of managing director Phil Holzer, but was only possible after they moved to larger premises in Kettering in winter 2012.

Mr Holzer said: “For many years we have specified and installed other manufacturers’ products. However we felt there was a need for UK manufactured units aimed at the light industrial market place, providing our customers with a truly flexible, quality product, with engineering designed to improve on our own experience of using competitors’ products.”

“Feedback has been very positive, with customers citing our build quality, technical back up, and flexibility as reasons for using us. Due to this success, we’re already developing further units for testing in 2014, and are looking to take on another build engineer this summer.”