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Italia · est. 1963 · Pavía (Valle Salimbene) · De'Longhi 2006 · Mitsubishi Electric since 2015
RC Group, founded in 1963 in Pavia as RC Condizionatori, is the Italian specialist in precision cooling: that same year it installed one of the first computer room air conditioners manufactured in Italy, in a large bank of the country. From its factory in Valle Salimbene, on the outskirts of Pavia, it built a reputation in climate control for data processing centers and industrial refrigeration: in 1980 it introduced free-cooling with the S.C.R. system, in 1983 it was the first in the sector to design with CAD, in 1985 it published a pioneering electronic catalogue (RC World) and in 1991 it was the first European climate control company to obtain ISO 9000 certification. In 1990 it absorbed Simair and AMP.
In 2003 it launched the Silver Bullet chiller with magnetic levitation compressor, and in 2006 it joined the De'Longhi Professional group, which in 2011-2012 spun it off together with Climaveneta (founded in 1971 in Bassano del Grappa) into the listed company DeLclima. Mitsubishi Electric bought DeLclima at the end of 2015 and on January 1, 2017 merged Climaveneta and RC Group into Mitsubishi Electric Hydronics & IT Cooling Systems (MEHITS), based in Bassano, with about 900 employees and €278 million in revenue in 2020. The RC brand survives within the Japanese group as a reference in data center cooling.
The name of the founder of RC Group nor the price paid by Mitsubishi Electric for DeLclima has been located.
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