News Headlines
11th November 2026
A-Gas warns of contaminated refrigerant
NEW ZEALAND: A-Gas New Zealand has raised concerns over contaminated illegally-imported refrigerant being sold through online marketplaces and social media.
9th November 2026
France blames Iran for cyber attacks
FRANCE: France has blamed Iran for last month’s cyber attacks which targeted over 700 of the country’s supermarket refrigeration systems.
6th November 2026
Daikin reports record half-year sales
JAPAN: Daikin has announced record sales of JPY2,910.7bn (US$18.39bn) for the six-month period to the end of September, a 17.4% increase boosted by demand from Europe.
11th November 2026
Iran says French claims are baseless and malicious
IRAN: Iran has rejected French accusations that it was behind last month’s cyber attacks on refrigeration systems, describing the claims as “baseless and malicious”.
11th November 2026
Munters forms US joint venture with Lordan
USA: Swedish manufacturer Munters has formed a joint venture with coil manufacturer Lordan to establish a manufacturing facility in the US. It also plans to expand chiller production in Italy.
11th November 2026
A-Gas warns of contaminated refrigerant
NEW ZEALAND: A-Gas New Zealand has raised concerns over contaminated illegally-imported refrigerant being sold through online marketplaces and social media.
10th November 2026
Lamb and Parris elected to IOR board
UK: Rob Lamb of Star Refrigeration and Sam Parris of WAVE have been elected to the Institute of Refrigeration’s board of trustees.
9th November 2026
Harling to retire from Williams Refrigeration
UK: Malcolm Harling, sales and marketing director at Williams Refrigeration, is set to retire at the end of December, after over 25 years with the company.
8th November 2026
Piorkowski appointed Carrier UK product manager
UK: Carrier HVAC UK&I has appointed Barry Piorkowski as product manager for heat pumps and chillers.
3rd November 2026
Indoor ground-source R290 heat pump
GERMANY: Viessmann has expanded its heat pump portfolio with the new Vitocal 300-G intelligent energy, an indoor ground-source heat pump.
2nd November 2026
Frick packaged ammonia heat pump
USA: Johnson Controls has announced the launch of the Frick HeatPAC reciprocating ammonia heat pump for food and beverage processing facilities.
2nd November 2026
Danfoss adds plate heat exchanger for data centres
DENMARK: Danfoss is expanding its gasketed plate heat exchanger portfolio with the D353, described as a compact solution developed for critical cooling applications.
23rd October 2026
Court installation judges R290 chillers
UK: Panasonic has supplied six 80kW ECOi-W Aqua-G Blue R290 chillers as part of a major cooling infrastructure upgrade at Leeds Magistrates Court.
19th October 2026
Wiesbaden supermarket is all CO2
GERMANY: A recently reopened supermarket in Wiesbaden claims to be the first to use CO2 refrigerant in all its commercial refrigeration, heating and air conditioning.
17th October 2026
Caverion stands out at Dusseldorf exhibition site
GERMANY: Caverion is to install the ventilation, refrigeration, plumbing, and compressed air systems for the renovation and expansion of Hall 9 at the Düsseldorf exhibition centre.
3rd May 2026
Skills gap: the answer’s already on the van
Will Overton, director of Vectis Refrigeration and founder of the Wisdom Group FM, argues that the skills gap in refrigeration and HVAC is not a training problem: it is a knowledge capture problem.
14th December 2025
When glycol loops go bad
David McKune, corporate account manager of Ecolab EU, a global sustainability leader offering water, hygiene and infection prevention solutions and services, discusses the hidden risks of ignoring coolant health in AI-era data centres.
2nd November 2025
Who really owns the S&M data?
Digital job systems and client portals have transformed service and maintenance efficiency, but they have also blurred the line between compliance reporting and intellectual property.
11th November 2026
IOR extends training outreach programme
UK: The Institute of Refrigeration (IOR) is to extend its education outreach programme, which supports the development of the skills pipeline for the RACHP sector, for a further year.
11th November 2026
John Ellis appointed C&G advisor
UK: John Ellis, co-founder and director of Hertfordshire-based Ellis Training, has been appointed to the customer advisory board of City & Guilds.
4th November 2026
Webinar questions cyber resilience
ITALY: Refrigeration control company Carel will host an interactive webinar on cyber resilience and the European Cyber Resilience Act (CRA).