Heat Pipe Technology Thermacore, Lancaster, Pa

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Heat Pipe TechnologyThermacore, Lancaster, Pa
Innovation - Thermacore heat pipes offer
greater design flexibility due to the heat pipe's
ability to transfer heat efficiently.
Their heat pipes can be bent and formed
into a variety of configurations while
maintaining their heat transfer properties.

• Accomplishments
• The firm customizes heat pipe solutions for
  each application, and heat pipes are
• very cost effective in OEM production
  quantities. For example, a 3mm heat pipe in
• production quantities costs close to a
  dollar. The long term reliability contributes to
  a
• lower total applied cost of a heat pipe
  solution than other less reliable cooling
  products.
• - The firms heat pipes, which have been on
  life-test for 20 years, show minimal or no
• degradation upon examination. In most
  Thermacore heat pipes, the working fluid is
• deionized water, and the vessel is copper.

Heat Pipe Technology
Commercialization - Modine Manufacturing
Company (NASDAQ MODI) has completed the
acquisition of Thermacore International, Inc., in
a pooling-of-interests transaction announced
originally on Dec. 14, 2000. Thermacore,
based in Lancaster, Pa., provides advanced
thermal solutions for the electronics industry.
The total transaction is valued at 110
million, including approximately 93.5 million
through the exchange of about 3.6 million shares
of Modine common stock for Thermacore common
stock. Modine also is assuming about 19
million in Thermacore liabilities, net of cash.
- The firm has expanded its Mexican
Production capacity with the opening if its new
facility in Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico. The new
plant currently has 77,000 square feet
of production space, and can be expanded another
77,000 square feet as future demands dictate.
- The firm has recently announced a 2 Million
contract from IBM to supply Therma-Fin cooling
solutions for the Pentium 4 processors in IBM's
high performance PC's. Therma-Fin heat
sinks will provide the thermal performance
necessary for processor speeds well beyond 1.5
GHz. - On January 9th of this year the
firm announced the awarding of production orders
in excess of 4.0 Million from Samsung
Electronics Co., Ltd, for a hybrid
cooling system called an HMS (heat management
system).
Points of Contact -NASA Jane Fox-
(281)-483-4815 Company info_at_thermacore.com 19
83 SBIR Phase II NAS9-17305
Johnson Space Center July20, 2001, Success
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