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A Year of Growth: Supporting Your Business Through Innovation in 2018

December 27, 2018

As Chatsworth Products (CPI) enters its third decade as a 100% employee-owned company, we reflect on 2018 with a sense of gratitude and pride, and thank you for your continued business and partnership. Our mission, "To Delight the Customer" has resulted in solutions for some of your toughest challenges. We’d like to highlight a few milestones and achievements that demonstrate this commitment. 

Awards  

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CPI wins CI&M Innovators Award for Clik-Nut® Hardware Kit. This tool-less cage nut reduces installation time by 70 percent (over the traditional cage nut), and saves fingers from being injured. In 2018, it was also made available in black, along with silver, to enhance aesthetics in facilities using black cabinets. Learn more.  
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Anthem Health, Inc. transforms its legacy data center of 1,000 cabinets into a model of efficiency. CPI wins CI&M Innovators Award for providing improvements and strategic recommendations that reduced cooling costs by 50 percent. Read the Case Study.   
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CPI wins CI&M Innovators Award for eConnect® Electronic Access Control. eConnect EAC addresses the market’s renewed focus on regulatory compliance by enhancing security at the cabinet-level. Learn more. 
 

New Solutions, Product Enhancements and Patents Awarded

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Cabinet Ecosystem 

CPI showcased its Cabinet Ecosystem Solution in 2018—a comprehensive, holistic solution that simplifies white space management and starts with the cabinet. Watch a video to learn more.

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4” Round Raised Floor Grommet

Raised Floor Grommets block bypass airflow through new or existing cable openings in data center raised floor environments. The Round Grommet offers smaller form-factor where space is limited. Learn more.

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CPI announced enhancements in CUBE-iT Wall-Mount Cabinet—a wall-mount enclosure for securing and supporting information and communications technology (ICT) equipment. The cabinet now includes many design elements to enhance usability, security and aesthetics, all of which promote use in public areas. Learn more.

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Airflow Management

CPI announces the addition of several new patents to its long list of breakthrough, pioneering innovations in aisle containment solutions, ducted exhaust cabinets and other thermal products that enable companies to drastically reduce energy consumption. See the full list of CPI’s patented product and solutions.

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CPI was awarded a patent for a cost-effective, simplified electronic access control (EAC) product for data center cabinets. This new technology combines access control, intelligent power management and environmental monitoring into a single, integrated platform. Learn more.

Snap-In Filler Panel

Snap-In Filler Panel blocks recirculation of hot exhaust air from the back of equipment to the front of equipment , helping to improve cooling costs. It is now available for threaded equipment mounting rails. Learn more.

GT-Series GlobalFrame® Gen 2 Cabinet—Exclusively for Asia Pacific

An easy-to-use, computer ad network equipment storage cabinet that complies with data center, computer room and premise network equipment room requirements. The GT-Series cabinet offer has expanded to 48U height to support more equipment and is offered in Glacier White to improve reflectance. Learn more.

Drive Forward Webinar Series

CPI launches its Drive Forward Webinar Series. The series was created to bring trending topics and relevant discussion to those attending. CPI experts and thought leaders present and provide an opportunity to answer questions during the Webinar. On-demand webinars are available to access at any time. Learn more.

Again, we thank you for your ongoing support in 2018, and we're looking forward to working with your business in 2019. Be sure to visit CPI’s Cross-Connection Blog for more stories, news and other events that occurred throughout 2018.

 

Posted by Brittany Mangan, Digital Content Specialist at 12/19/2018

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