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Cabin Cool Introduces Air Conditioning System
Cabin Cool, a startup company based out of Rockville, Maryland, with the vision of providing air conditioning where there was none before, is introducing the M100, an air conditioning system designed to allow a heavy equipment operator to work in comfort in an open-cab environment. The M100 direct-cooling system helps to reduce employee fatigue and turnover, improving worker productivity in an increasingly hot and uncomfortable world. Weighing only 22.7 kg, the self-contained, compact unit is 61 cm long, 29.2 cm wide and has a height of 20.3 cm. Its low power requirements and operator-controlled settings make it an ideal solution to improve worker comfort and safety in hot environments. The product can be used indoors or outdoors, and is rugged enough for any job, withstanding dusty, dirty, demanding environments in all sorts of weather conditions. “As long as the heavy equipment has an electrical system and a place to mount the product, you can use it,” said Todd Stave, CEO, Cabin Cool. “Cool air blowing on the worker, and under that worker’s control, provides instant relief in a hot environment. It is a very effective, affordable product and ideal for the wide variety of open cabs in the heavy equipment industry.” The easy to install, run and repair M100 air conditioning system is ideal for the heavy equipment industry including material handling, aerial platforms, paving, earthmoving and excavation, agriculture and landscaping, and general construction. Although the M100 uses 10% of the power of a typical window air conditioner, it provides enough power to comfort workers in the most extreme conditions. The M100’s small electric heat pump with a powerful fan will cool the air around the equipment by 14°C, in other words, on a 38°C day, the unit will make 24°C air. The system provides up to 600 W of cooling power, even though it consumes less than 275 W of electric power. The cooled air is blown at relatively high pressure, and the operator is able to control the power, temperature, fan speed, and where the air is directed. Initially created for open cab environments, Cabin Cool has also received interest from customers with closed cab environments as well. The unit comes with a 1-year total system warranty. The product works on both new and retrofitted equipment and supports both gas and electric equipment. “Cabin Cool units are very reasonably priced, fully self-contained, easily installed and make the equipment operator’s job much more comfortable leading to a safer and more productive foundry employee,” said Ted Springer, president and COO of Springer Inc., a Cabin Cool dealer and former Chairman of the Board of the Material Handling Equipment Distributors Association (MHEDA). According to the Lancet Countdown, a global academic collaboration who monitor the health impacts of climate change, the global heat season is beginning earlier, ending later, and becoming more intolerable. They estimate that in a rising trend since at least 1990, 295 billion hours of potential work were lost across the globe in 2020 due to heat exposure – ie, the equivalent of 88 work hours per employed person. “People all over the world work in miserable conditions, and it’s only going to get worse,” said Todd Stave. “There is a big dichotomy between the available infrastructure to support air conditioning and where it will ultimately be demanded. Our solution is a simple way to provide instant relief to individuals in hot environments, and to make those environments a bit more tolerable.” Manufactured by Air Innovations out of Syracuse, New York, the product is now shipping and available through Cabin Cool’s website and distributors in North America. Cabin Cool is interested in finding rental companies and additional distributors across the globe. Founded in 2022 by a group of investors in the heavy equipment industry, Cabin Cool, Inc. brings an affordable solution to those who work in excessively hot environments. By cooling people rather than spaces, the company aims to improve the personal comfort of frontline workers across the globe.
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Originally conceived at the University of Maryland and funded by the Department of Energy, Cabin Cool’s guiding principle is the idea that it takes a lot less energy to cool a person than it does the space they occupy.
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