Zamil Central Air Conditioners Company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Zamil Industrial Investment Company, has signed a SR348-million ($92.8 million) deal to supply custom chiller systems with Al Fouzan Trading and General Construction Company, according to a report.

The systems are for the Saudi Real Estate Development Company (Dar Al-Hijrah) project, owned by the Public Investment Fund (PIF) of the Ministry of Finance, in Madinah, said the Arab News report.

The scope of the contract includes the supply of 80 custom water-cooled centrifugal chillers with a total cooling capacity of 200,000 tons of refrigeration (TR) for use in the first phase of the project, which is being developed in Madinah on an area of 1.6 million sq m and has the capacity to accommodate around 120,000 pilgrims, it said.

The 80 MHI centrifugal chillers will include chiller plant management systems, inverters, refrigerant pump systems and automatic tube cleaning systems.

MHI centrifugal compressors and chillers are considered the most efficient chiller system and employ the most advance Japanese technology, said the report.

They have a cooling capacity that ranges from 270 to 5,000 TR per chiller, it added.