News
7/8/2009 - RCS is new official sponsor of HCAP
In a press release the Ambrì Piotta Hockey Club today announced RCS as its new official sponsor. In the statement the characteristics that the two partners have in common are emphasized: both have a team that works with passion and energy to remain among the best in Switzerland - all in an environment par excellence linked to the cold.
=> Download the press release
3/8/2009 - New HCAP jersey with RCS logo
RCS is satisfied with the great interest shown by its customers for the matches of the Ambrì Piotta Hockey Club and has therefore decided to strengthen the partnership with the club for the season 2009/2010.
Filippo Lombardi, president of the HCAP – as well as managing director of RCS - and the new coach Benoît Laporte proudly presented the new team jersey.
A great season full of nice events offered by RCS is expecting you in the Valascia!
10/7/2009 - Athletissima 2009 in Lausanne
At the Athletissima Meeting of 7th July 2009 in Lausanne RCS has received several customers and planners of the region in the space reserved for SMEs. It was a pleasant get-together in a relaxed atmosphere.
4/5/2009 - New water cooled chiller for Brico in Cadenazzo
RCS has recently supplied a new water cooled chiller to the Brico-Do It Yourself store in Cadenazzo. This is a further company that relies on RCS technology and experience in matters of conditioning.
25/4/2009 - First «RCS Energy Event»
The first Energy Event organized by RCS was held on Friday 24 April 2009 at the Ferrari Showroom in Grancia. In the spectacular setting of the "prancing horse" about sixty invited of the industry have followed an interesting conference on energy policy of the Federal Government and on several new offerings on the market. Keynote speaker was Filippo Lombardi, chairman of the Energy Commission to the Council as well as a board member of RCS. The conference was followed by a rich cocktail and interesting discussions among the participants.
7/4/2009 - New service technician for the German-speaking Switzerland
Since 23 March 2009 Konrad Dick strengthens the RCS team in the German-speaking Switzerland. As a competent professional with great technical experience with heat pumps, Konrad Dick assumes responsibility for the project management in the German-speaking Switzerland including the after sales business. Thanks to the expanded team and with the support of technicians in Ticino and in the French-speaking Switzerland, RCS further strengthens its customer service and ensures an even better and more efficient facilities support.
5/2/2009 - New office in Biberist (SO)
From 1st March 2009, the RCS area office in the German speaking part of Switzerland will move from Wallisellen to Biberist. Thanks to the new location RCS will be able to guarantee a more efficient logistics and an excellent customer service. The new building and the surrounding area offer ideal conditions for the new warehouse and the loading/unloading of the trucks.
New address:
RCS GmbH
Grüttstrasse 96
4562 Biberist
5/2/2009 - Bethesda Hospital in Basle
RCS has delivered a new chiller with turbo-compressor to the Bethesda Hospital in Basle, member of the “Swiss Leading Hospitals”.
RCS has already been able to acquire great experience with these oil-free compressors Turbocor. In fact, RCS has already provided the same technology to the Merian Iselin Hospital in Basle and to the BMW Sauber building in Hinwil. This refrigeration system ensures significant energy savings.
18/12/2008 - New cooling tower for ABB Turgi (AG)
RCS has supplied and installed on site a new 1300 kW cooling tower for ABB in Turgi. An identical cooling tower is already successfully in use since 10 years at ABB. That’s the reason why the customer decided again for a quiet Evapco LSWA cooling tower whit a sound pressure level of only 54 db (A) in 15m.
The spectacular installation of the equipment lasted 7 hours and the cooling tower is now available for daily use.
=> Installation
9/12/2008 - RCS on TV
RCS has recently been presented during the broadcast «Gulliver» on the local TV Teleticino. In this weekly program, the renowned journalist Gianfranco De Santis presents successful companies from Ticino.
Download the video => Company portrait of RCS
22/10/2008 - New office in Aclens (VD)
RCS has opened today a new branch office in Aclens, which focuses on sales and service. Thanks to this new organizational structure RCS will strengthen its presence in the French speaking part of Switzerland and respond even better to the needs of the local customers. The new area office also has a large stock of spare parts.
The new contact address is:
RCS Sarl
18 ch du Coteau
1123 Aclens
4/9/2008 - RCS and the Ambrì Piotta Hockey Club
RCS is a big fan of the Ambrì Piotta Hockey Club. Two entrance tickets for the "Golden Tribune” (Tribuna Oro) are available to our customers who wish to follow live the matches of the season 08/09.
Please contact us:
info@rcs.ch or Phone 0842 000 007.
Don’t forget to return the tickets as soon as possible after the match.
2/7/2008 - RCS supplies two water chillers to Bucherer
Two new water chillers R410 of the Manta series have been installed in the Bucherer jewelry store in Locarno. The Bucherer branch in Lugano had been previously equipped with identical machines.
This new product range works extremely silently and is very compact.
30/6/2008 - Admiral Casino: two new water chillers
This morning RCS has delivered two new water chillers with 250 kW each to the Admiral Casino in Mendrisio. These two machines are in addition to the water chiller of 500 kW, which is in operation since 2 years.
24/6/2008 - Installation Monitoring
During the warranty period RCS offers a free monitoring system on the web for most water chillers. This system allows our technicians to control the correct operation of machinery and, if necessary, intervene from remote workstation. Our customers can also check their installations through our site.
24/6/2008 - RCS for McDonald's
After the installation of a Trilogy system for McDonald's in Geneva, we have now also put into service a fluid cooler for the branch of Pambio-Noranco.
20/6/2008 - New water chillers for ETH in Basle
RCS tested successfully together with the project manager and the planners a new compressor for refrigeration with oil-free magnetic bearings at the RC Group of Pavia. This refrigeration plant will be supplied to the ETH in Basle.
23/5/2008 - RCS and Emil Frey
RCS has supplied a water chiller for the new exhibition spaces at the Emil Frey in Pambio Noranco.
2/5/2008 - RCS and Radio 3iii
Radio 3iii has recently moved to Melide into a new building with high technology. The house is a wooden construction, which also takes into account the ecological values. RCS contributed to this project with his know-how of climate technology and supplied a heat winner with integrated cooling and heat pump.
7/4/2008 - Coolside for Bladeserver
RC Group presented "Coolside" at Milan fair, an air conditioning system with a new concept of cooling server rooms which is granting in extremely compact dimensions the "killing" of the Hot Spots.
28/3/2008 - Water chillers delivered to Palazzo Mantegazza
New water chillers have been provided to the Mantegazza building in Lugano-Paradiso, one of the most renowned constructions in Lugano. The reversible units (hot/cold) use water of Lake Lugano for heat dissipation.
Link to palazzo Mantegazza
10/3/2008 - Hilsa 2008 feedback
Thank you very much to all friends who visited our stand at the Hilsa Fair.
7/2/2008 - New company profile
In order to be better appreciated by our customers we have just prepared a new company profile
Image Prospect1.pdf
8/1/2008 - RCS at Hilsa
RCS will participate to Hilsa, the most important exhibition in Switzerland for HVAC that willbe held in Basel from the 22nd to 26th of Jannuary 2008.
Every person interested to this event, may download the invitation form in PDF format.
We would be glad to see you at the stand.
Link to the exhibition web site Invitation for the exibitition
1/10/2007 - RCS General Catalogue
From today the new general catalogue written in alle the national language is available.
If you are interested to receive a copy please do not hesitate to ask for it.
20/6/2007 - New sales manager
From 1. July 2007 RCS team is expanded with a new member Mr. Konrad Gisler. Mr. Gisler will operate as responsible sales manager for the cantons BE, SO, AG, LU, BL and BS. We are sure that with his know - how, customer will have a good partner for projects. Mr. Gisler will operate from his home office in Biberist and from the office in Wallisellen.
Konrad Gisler: 079 643 87 62
27/4/2007 - New building of BMW Sauber in Hinwill
RCS has tested at RC Group factrory in Pavia together with the consultant engineer and the intaller, 3 chillers with the new oil free turbo compressor to be supplied to BMW Sauber for the cooling of the new building; the famous Formula 1 Team in Hinwill. The supply is also including a large number of close control units and fan coils.
16/2/2007 - RCS and RTSI
RCS supply displacement Computer Room Air Conditioning units of Heat Hunter series for public Radio and TV of Italian speaking Cantons of Switzerland.
31/1/2007 - Eng. Machoud become part of our Team
From today, Ing, Jean Claude Machoud already partner and consultant of RCS, started in our company as director and responsable for the french speaking area. The presence of Mr. Machoud person with long commercial experience for the French part of Switzerland, that perfectly knows the products from RC Group that is selling since more than 15 years, will be extremely important to build an efficient net of sales and service in the french part of Switzerland.
29/12/2006 - MIS Merian Iselin Hospital in Basel
RCS started today the first water chillers of 500 kW with magnetic bearings for the Hospital Merian Iselin in Basel, member of the Leading Hospital of Switzerland. New chillers will grant and exceptional energy efficeny to the Hospital. The second chillers of 500 kW will be started the Jannuary.
21/12/2006 - RCS travel with Smart
RCS recently bought 2 Smart cars that are renewing the actual RCS cars fleet with a new modern style.
24/11/2006 - CIBA Basel
RCS supply 2 free cooling water chillers of 300 kW each and close control units for an important building in Basel for CIBA.
22/9/2006 - Siemens Volketswil
RCS supply 2 free cooling water chillers for a total colling capacity installed of 700 kW for an important Siemens building .
21/7/2006 - Casino' Admiral
RCS supply a new water chiller for the Casino' Admiral in Mendrisio.
15/6/2006 - New cooling plant ofr AGIE in Zandone
RCS has supplied 2 water chillers and 2 heat pump units for the production factory of the AGIE in Zandone, the meaning of the project is to give priority of heat recovery in winter were it exhist a constant cooling load and use heat pump in the mild seasons. The installed cooling capacity in 1.500 kW.
7/6/2006 - RCS cooling Manor shop in Bellinzona
After Manor of Canobbio, Locarno, RCS supply also the water chiller for Manor in Bellinzona, again an important customer renewing his trust.
23/3/2006 - RCS and Fly/Athleticum
RCS recently supplied 2 water chillers RC Group for the cooling of the building where Fly and Atleticum shops are located in Lugano Grancia for a total cooling capacity of 400 kW.
17/3/2006 - RCS and Teleticino
RCS supply close control units of Pegasus range for the data centre of Teleticino the only private television in Ticino.
7/7/2005 - RCS and ROLEX
RCS just signed the contract for the supply for close control units for the building of Les Acacias. This important reference confirm one more time the reputation of RC Group products in the French part of Switzerland.
4/7/2005 - RCS move to Manno
Our office in Melide are already too small for our organization, we move to industrial area of Manno were we will organize a stock of products and spare parts, we thank you very much Teleticino for all the help given during this company start up fase.
9/5/2005 - Sales agreement with EVAPCO
RCS is happy to inform about the new exclusive distibution agreement on the Swiss market with the company Evapco, world leader for cooling towers.
18/3/2005 - IBSA Grancia
RCS supply a multifunction liquid chiller of Multiplo range from RC Group for the new building of IBSA in Grancia.
10/3/2005 - RCS becomes member of ATF
RCS becomes member of the Associazione Ticinese Frigoristi, organization that promote the job of refrigerant engineer and organize technical training for learners. RCS believes of the contribution to this kind of associations che help the develop of the profession and are important to grant a future in our field.
7/3/2005 - Chiasso custome clearance - Minergie
RCS has commissioned the multifunction chiller - heat pump of RC Group installed in the chiasso custome clearance building, the biggest Minergie (2363m2) every built in Ticino ed one of the biggest in Switzerland. This particolar units allow to recover cold water during the heating mode and recover warm water during the cooling mode.
3/1/2005 - RCS starts its activity
Today starts the activity of our company. We are in Melide, inside the building of Teleticino, we are 5 people: Davide Chessa, coming from an experience of 13 years as Export Manager of the company RC Group in Pavia, Cornelia Parma, our secretary and aministration responsible, Wolfgang Stoffel, coming from a long experience in air conditioning, Jean Claude Machoud, consultant and agent for the french part of Switzerland and Matteo Fanfaroni, technical consultant coming from RC Group of Pavia. Our organization has as target the exclusive distribution and the service of RC Group products on the Swiss Market.