Noske-Kaeser - Air-Conditioning Systems and Components

The Noske-Kaeser Group of companies offers customised systems as well as a range of standard components in the fields of air-conditioning, ventilation, refrigeration, piping and fire fighting. Noske-Kaeser’s capability and experience extends to all types of rail vehicles, both passenger cars and locomotives.

A comprehensive worldwide international sales and service network provides local customer support at all stages of a project, from the design and build phase to whole of life after-sales support.

Train heating and cooling systems

Noske-Kaeser has extensive experience of coping with a wide range of environmental and operational conditions. Whether it is the extreme heat of the Western Australian desert, mid-winter in northern Germany or the phenomenally high-speed conditions experienced on the Transrapid Maglev train in Shanghai - our engineers can adapt our technologies to provide cost effective, reliable heating and cooling.

Customised air-distribution systems

Noske-Kaeser offers full support for any rolling stock project, whether this is a new build or refurbishment of an existing fleet. In addition to developing project-specific equipment designs with associated environmental and performance testing, our capability enables us to work closely with train builders / designers, with the air-distribution system design utilising advanced 3D CAD modelling and full size mock-up construction and testing.

Air-conditioning system components

Noske-Kaeser Group has recently created a dedicated business unit for components in order to concentrate its R&D activities and to expand the already existing product range. Together with our rail air-conditioning specialists at Noske-Kaeser in New Zealand, the components unit will focus on offering standard air-conditioning units for making travelling with track-bound vehicles as comfortable and safe as possible for passengers and drivers.

Rolling stock HVAC equipment and systems

Noske-Kaeser has experience in providing HVAC equipment and systems for trams, underground and suburban railcars, regional train railcars, high-speed trains, and locomotive drivers' cabs.

Systems include self-contained roof-mounted units, underfloor units, split systems and wall-mount vertical configuration equipment.

The special features of our units include:

• Compact design for the best possible adaptation to the available space envelope
• Good accessibility for maintenance and repair
• PLC control for automatic operation
• Low weight
• Economic and environmentally friendly operation
• Corrosion resistant stainless-steel construction
• Optional integrated inverters, for operation using locomotives' DC power
• Optional dual-circuit redundant systems

HVAC equipment whole-life support

Noske-Kaeser is a global organisation with a full network of service offices. We are committed to supporting our equipment throughout its life. We are able to offer a range of activities to support all types of HVAC equipment and maximise rolling-stock availability for revenue service. These include:

• Regular preventative maintenance
• Technical phone support / troubleshooting
• Unscheduled maintenance / repairs
• Customer and operator training
• Reliability based long-term service contracts
• Equipment overhauls
• Unit remanufacture for life extension

HVAC systems and components markets

In addition to rail applications, Noske-Kaeser also provides HVAC systems and components for:

• Naval surface ships and submarines
• Merchant ships
• Passenger and cruise ships
• Yachts and mega yachts
• Tracked and wheeled military vehicles
• Specialised military containers

Established in 1879, Noske-Kaeser has the benefit of over 130 years of experience in providing equipment and systems to the transportation industries. The company owns numerous patents and is a pioneer in developing sophisticated technology.