Tango Factory
The new Tango factory is an architectural masterpiece from the architects Wilhelm and Antonia Kasten from Auelndorf. Inside, behind the factory façade, is a thermodynamic masterpiece from the inventors of the Ministat and the Unistat tango. Seen from the energy side it is a huge Tango for the environmentally-friendly reproduction and propagation of Compatible Control Thermostats, Unichillers, the Tango and the big Unistats, down to temperatures of -120°C.
As a contrast, at the coldest point in the Ortenau region of the Black Forest, high temperature thermostats are being developed and built with the capacity to cool and to heat up to 425°C. This is thermodynamics taken to its limits both low and high.
Huber is a specialist in refrigeration and not a conventional heating company. The Ministat and Unistat Tango factory makes even experts in the heating of buildings wonder. 25 Km of evenly embedded plastic pipes in stone floors and concrete ceilings are used for cooling in summer and unobtrusive heating in winter ensuring that no one gets cold feet.
The remarkably low floor temperature, seldom above 23°C, is responsible physiologically that no one gets swollen feet. This was no easy job for either expert hand workers or theoretical experts because their visualisation for temperature lies between 30°C and 40°C. For an oil or gas heating system this doesn't matter. A heat pump however, to which we are closely connected both in terms of energy efficiency and working, is able to save up to an additional 1/3 energy. The fact that it can be even better both ecologically and economically goes back to the idea that with simple means, it is possible to impede heat leakage through the walls.
Warm feet and a cool head. You can calculate it in your head: 5000 sq meters of floors and 1000 sq meters of concrete ceiling establish a radiator with an area of 6000 sq meters. With an excess temperature of 2 to 3°C, it is sufficient to keep warm 40,000 cu. meters of surrounding space. 90kW of heat demand, 2.25 watts/cu. meter. That is difficult to believe, sight unseen. But it is however correct. Of the 1000 sq meters of windows three quarters are triple glazed because the third pane of glass pays off the fastest. Walls and ceilings are thermally insulated up to 24cm because the last centimetre which costs the least pays off the fastest. The result, which now cannot be disputed, is that the Ministat and Unistat Tango factory corresponds both in energy and economics to the product philosophy. Our factory should be noble, useful and well built. The challenge to build an economically optimum refrigeration thermostat does not go together with the task to build the cheapest one. The profitability of long life systems however, is usually much more dependent on the operational costs than the purchase price. A view over the counter, to where the follow-up costs prowl, shows that Huber products are at times 10 to 20% more expensive but the bottom line is that within a short time they are if anything cheaper by up to 50%.