UK News

UK: Kensa Heat Pumps has won government funding of £92,000 to develop an online dashboard using AI to allow for remote commissioning and predictive maintenance…

UK: Economic headwinds coupled with an ongoing legal dispute have been blamed for the financial difficulties confronting pioneering refrigeration company Arctic Circle. The Hereford-based company,…

UK: Hereford-based refrigeration company Arctic Circle has gone into administration. According to a notice published in the Gazette yesterday, February 9, Rajnesh Mittal and Arvindar Jit Singh of Birmingham-based FRP…

BELGIUM/UK: Daikin Europe has signed a partnership with the Greater Manchester Combined Authority to create a test-bed for net zero technologies and services in public buildings, including social housing.

UK: Coventry-based Lawton Tubes have been named as Beijer Ref UK and Ireland supplier of the year for its efforts in 2022. 

UK: Warners, the publisher of the UK trade magazine ACR Journal, has announced a further one-day regional exhibition in Leeds in September. The company’s first ACR…

UK: Toshiba Carrier UK has updated its Rewards UK air conditioning and heat pump installer incentive programme adding three enhanced accredited partner tiers above the…

UK: McBurney Transport Group has opted to fit all new refrigerated trailers with solar panels to keep fridge batteries in a charged state. The decision…

UK: Refrigerants will again be on the menu when the Hampshire Refrigeration Society holds its first Technical Breakfast Briefing of 2023 next month. This free-to-attend…

UK: Scottish Gas has announced it will now be guaranteeing to provide the lowest-priced heat pump installations in the UK.  Scottish Gas says it will…

Burnley MP Anthony Higginbotham (centre) opens the new centre, flanked by James Hargreaves director Bill Davies (left) and Sustainability Home Centre manager Craig Payne UK:…

UK: Adande Refrigeration has appointed global sales director Karl Hodgson as MD. He replaces founder Ian Wood, who is turning his knowledge and expertise on…

UK: Swegon is bringing together all the group’s UK room unit brands of Waterloo, NACO and Air Diffusion under one brand identity – Waterloo by…

UK: Barry Wilson, a former director of Advanced Engineering and well-known figure in the refrigeration and air conditioning industry for over 40 years, died recently.…

UK: Former IoR president and head of the World Refrigeration Day has won the Women’s Engineering Society’s Men as Allies Award for 2022.

UK: The Building Research Establishment (BRE) has called on the UK government to improve consumer awareness of heat pumps in its efforts to improve the…

UK: Patrick Mullins has been appointed retail service director for Integral UK’s Cooling Technologies division. Mullins joined Integral in 2013 as business development director, following…

UK: Swedish HVAC manufacturer Swegon has moved its UK factory to a new 6,400m2 facility in Snodland, near Maidstone, Kent. Its new Vantage Point factory…

UK: Bitzer UK has warned installers and end users about the risks of sourcing Bitzer products through unofficial grey import channels.  The UK subsidiary of…

UK: Air conditioning equipment distributor Kooltech has been acquired by the Wolseley Group. Kooltech, which was shocked by the sudden death of MD and major…

UK: One of the leading domestic refrigeration manufacturers has been found to be openly selling R134a refrigerant in contravention of the F-gas regulations. While the…