UK News

UK: A leading independent UK cross-party think tank claims that the number of new homes using renewable energy, including heat pumps, for central heating has dropped this year. 

UK: Geoff Mills, commercial director at Epta UK, has announced his retirement after nearly 42 years in the refrigeration industry.

UK: Bitzer UK’s remanufacturing arm, Green Point UK, has reported a steep increase in sales of remanufactured transcritical CO2 compressors.

UK: Daikin has launched The AClub, a new app-based incentive scheme, enabling installers to earn reward points on qualifying purchases through Daikin’s wholesale partners.

UK: Paul Arrowsmith, the refrigeration design manager for Sainsbury’s, has been named as vice president of the British Refrigeration Association (BRA).

UK: Wayne Perrins has been appointed managing director of specialist Bristol-based chiller and air conditioning design and installation business Cooltherm.

UK: A new batch of students have embarked on one of the UK’s only transport refrigeration engineering apprenticeship programmes.

UK: Danish CO2 refrigeration and heat pump systems manufacturer Fenagy has established a UK office in Leeds.

UK: The cold storage companies signed up to the UK government’s Climate Change Agreement (CCA) exceeded agreed energy efficiency improvements in 2022.

UK: A UK government advisory body has called for the free installation of heat pumps in low income households and billions of pounds in heat pump subsidies.

UK: Daikin UK has opened the doors to four new centres as part of its now 35-strong national sustainable home network.

UK: The South West and South Wales Refrigeration Society (SWRS) is holding its next technical breakfast meeting at Bath College on 26 October.

UK: TEV has announced the death of Chris Pedley following a battle with cancer. He was 63.

UK: Neil Roberts, senior technical sales manager at Bristol-based refrigerant supplier Climalife, has been appointed president of the British Refrigeration Association (BRA).

UK: FETA has announced that Michael Ohly, former president and founder of its ductwork contractor group, ADCAS, has died at the age of 78.

UK: The death of a fishing boat crewman, asphyxiated by R22 refrigerant, has resulted in a fine of £220,000 for the vessel’s owners.

UK: The Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) claims that construction clients are more focused on meeting their net zero goals than complying with the Building Safety Act.

UK: Temperature-controlled van specialist CoolKit has moved to a new 7,000m2 premises following the blaze that devastated its Burnley manufacturing site at the beginning of July.

UK: While UK greenhouse gas emissions on a residence basis increased in 2022, they remain below pre-coronavirus pandemic levels.

UK: Damian Wiszniewski has joined Carrier as UK sales manager for its DX products.

UK: The Institute of Refrigeration has put together an impressive line-up of international speakers for its forthcoming Extreme Heat Business Briefing.