History
The Short Version
We got our name, SPX Cooling Technologies, Inc., in 2005, but our company is more than a century old. We’re formed from some of the most established names in the cooling industry: Balcke, Marley, Ceramic, Recold, and Hamon Dry Cooling.
Balcke & Co. was founded in Germany in 1894 and became a world leader in cooling towers in the early 1900s. Marley was founded in the United States in 1922 as the Power Plant Equipment Company before becoming The Marley Company in 1926. Recold was founded in 1932 in Brea, California. These companies invented and patented most of the industrial cooling tower innovations and technologies in use today.
Among the firsts that we’ve accomplished are:
| many times | the world’s largest cooling installation |
| 1920s | spray nozzles; atmospheric deck tower |
| 1930s | concrete hyperbolic natural draft cooling tower; mechanical draft cooling tower with induced fan |
| 1950s | air cooled condenser; underflow design cooling tower |
| 1960s | crossflow design using film fill; air-cooled heat exchanger; 100-ton evaporative condenser |
| 1970s | largest fan in the world; multi-fan mechanical draft cooling tower |
| 1980s | combined wet/dry cooling tower; natural draft wet cooling tower with integrated flue gas desulphurization; complete indirect dry cooling system |
| 1990s | timber construction for multi-cell hybrid cooling towers; complete cold end system |
| 2000s | liquid natural gas heating tower; circular mechanical draft cooling tower with natural draft assistance |
And that’s not all. To learn more about our company’s rich history advancing the state of cooling technologies today, see our timeline.
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