New MicroCool® website unveils new standard cold plate products

HUNTSVILLE, Ala., Dec. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Wolverine's MicroCool® Division has launched its redesigned MicroCooling.com website and unveiled its new Online Store featuring commercially available MicroCool® Standard Cold Plates for the IGBT Power Electronic and CPU markets.

"The launch of the new Online Store is an important milestone for MicroCool® and expands our footprint in the liquid cooling of computer systems and high-performance power electronics." said Peter Beucher, director of MicroCool®. "Now we can quickly respond to our customers' specific requirements by offering a complete line of readily available standard cold plates as well as custom cold plate designs with unsurpassed thermal and pressure drop performance."

The new site's MicroCool® Online Store offers standard, semi-custom, and custom cold plate design options designed to fit most of the common IGBT and CPU configurations used today. The Online Store platform is designed to give customers fast and easy access to a commercial stockpile of MicroCool® aluminum standard cold plates. Semi-custom and custom cold plates are build-to-order, and are available for customers in need of a unique liquid cooling solution.

MicroCool® will add new features to the site over time and plans to release its MicroCool® Tool in the first quarter of 2013.  This new online tool is a cold plate simulator with a user-friendly interface designed to quickly provide thermal resistance, cold plate and fluid temperatures, as well as pressure drop performance with just a few easy inputs.

About Wolverine Tube, Inc.

Wolverine Tube, Inc. is a leading manufacturer and supplier of technically advanced, surface-enhanced copper and copper alloy tube, fabricated products, and high-tech brazing and joining products. Wolverine's proprietary, custom-engineered tube products provide thermal management solutions for our customers in multiple markets including HVAC, refrigeration and appliance, electronics cooling, power generation, petrochemical and chemical processing. Wolverine delivers the most advanced metal surface technology enhancements for heat transfer solutions in today's marketplace. For more information about Wolverine Tube, please visit: www.wlv.com

Wolverine's MicroCool® Division provides industry-leading solutions for base plate, cold plate and total cooling loop system designs for computer systems and high-performance power electronics.  For more information about MicroCool®, please visit: www.microcooling.com.

SOURCE Wolverine Tube, Inc.