News Headlines
22nd October 2026
Carrier plans new $600m Fort Worth plant
USA: Carrier has announced plans to invest more than $600m over the next three years in a new advanced manufacturing and engineering centre in Fort Worth, Texas.
21st October 2026
Chemours’ injunctions relate to R1234yf blends
GERMANY: Refrigerant manufacturer Chemours has confirmed that the injunctions it issued to four exhibitors at last week’s Chillventa exhibition were related to infringements of its patents for 1234yf blends.
17th October 2026
Solstice issues injunctions on Chillventa exhibitors
GERMANY: Refrigerant manufacturer Solstice claims to have issued injunctions claiming patent infringements against five exhibitors at this week’s Chillventa exhibition in Nuremberg.
24th October 2026
House of Lords event marks HVACR Women Week
UK: As the industry prepares to celebrate the inaugural Global HVACR Women Week, the sector came together on Thursday to mark the launch and discuss the sector’s successes.
23rd October 2026
Solid refrigerant firm receives $8.5m funding
USA: Pascal, a developer of barocaloric solid refrigerant technology, has raised additional funding of $8.5m to support the technology’s initial deployments with a multinational beverage manufacturer.
23rd October 2026
Westfalen opens R290 plant
GERMANY: Industrial gases manufacturer and retailer the Westfalen Group has opened a new plant to produce high-purity refrigerant R290 at its site in Münster-Gelmer.
20th October 2026
Birmingham society renames and relaunches
UK: The Birmingham Society of Refrigeration & Air Conditioning (BSRA) is to relaunch itself under a new name and new focus.
18th October 2026
Octopus develops a heat pump cooler add-on
UK: Energy and heat pump supplier Octopus Energy is developing an add-on cooler for its existing Cosy heat pumps.
14th October 2026
Space Engineering acquired by German group
UK: Bristol-based Space Engineering Services has been acquired by Bluu Unit, the German group of refrigeration, air conditioning and ventilation firms.
24th October 2026
Clivet rooftops using R454C
ITALY: Clivet has introduced a new generation of rooftop air-conditioning units using the lower GWP A2L refrigerant R454C.
21st October 2026
Stainless steel industrial hand valves
USA: Parker Hannifin has introduced a new range of stainless-steel hand valves for industrial refrigeration systems in North American and Latin American markets.
20th October 2026
ADAPTIX designed to boost CO2 system efficiency
ITALY: Rivacold has developed ADAPTIX, a patented technology designed to improve CO2 transcritical refrigeration systems throughout the year.
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.
7th October 2026
Guide to good practice in HP pipework insulation
UK: The Heat Pump Association UK has published a new guide to insulating the external hydraulic pipework of domestic monobloc air-to-water heat pumps.
29th September 2026
Global Heat Forum will tackle extreme heat
THAILAND: An inaugural forum in Bangkok next month brings together over 400 leading scientists, city leaders, philanthropies and health experts to scale solutions and unlock finance for extreme heat action.
27th September 2026
ASHRAE seeks abstracts for New Orleans conference
USA: ASHRAE is accepting abstracts for conference papers for its annual conference in New Orleans in June.