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26th April 2024
Eurovent ME awards first F-gas training certificates
UAE: Eurovent Middle East has awarded the first certificates for F-gas handling to eleven HVACR engineers and technicians from refrigeration specialist EPTA Middle East.
25th April 2024
Carrier sales up 17%
USA: Carrier achieved net sales of $6.2bn in Q1, a 17% rise on the same period last year. Organic sales were up 2%.
25th April 2024
Beijer Ref offers high speed refrigerant recovery
UK: Beijer Ref Refrigerants UK has announced a new refrigerant recovery service focused on simplifying the recovery process from larger systems.
24th April 2024
Daikin opens Doncaster Sustainable Home Centre
UK: Daikin has opened a new Sustainable Home Centre, its sixth this year, at Doncaster-based plumbing and heating supplier Spinks.
24th April 2024
NIST optimises pulse tube refrigerator
USA: Scientists from the USA’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) claim to have dramatically reduced the time and energy required to chill materials to temperatures near absolute zero.
24th April 2024
Clivet’s Thunder cracks R290 heat pump market
ITALY: Clivet Thunder is a new air-cooled reversible heat pump equipped with inverter scroll compressors specifically designed for use with R290 refrigerant.
23rd April 2024
Modine opens heat pump coil plant
USA/SERBIA: US manufacturer Modine has officially opened a second facility in Sremska, Serbia, to manufacture coils for commercial and residential heat pump applications.
23rd April 2024
A-Gas expands US reclaim capacity
USA: Refrigerant supply and management company A-Gas has completed the construction of another set of separation towers at its facility in Rhome, Texas.
23rd April 2024
Beijer Ref Q1 sales up 4%
SWEDEN: Beijer Ref recorded sales of SEK7,680m (€633m) in Q1 of 2024, a 4% increase on last year. EBITA saw a similar percentage increase to SEK733m (€63m).
23rd April 2024
IoR celebrates Lord Kelvin at 200
UK: The Institute of Refrigeration will mark this year’s World Refrigeration Day with a celebration of the achievements and contributions of mechanical refrigeration pioneer Lord Kelvin.
23rd April 2024
Eurovent calculates AHU life cycle costs
BELGIUM: Eurovent has released a new recommendation that enables the life cycle energy consumption and costs of air handling units to be calculated.
23rd April 2024
Ecodan heat pumps stocked by heating merchant
UK: Mitsubishi Electric’s Ecodan heat pumps and hot water cylinders are to be stocked by The Boiler Shop, a Derbyshire-based independent heating and plumbing merchants.
23rd April 2024
Tefcold acquires Eurofred’s Horeca business
DENMARK: The Tefcold Group has acquired Barcelona-based Horeca Global Solutions, a distributor of refrigeration, cooking and ice cream making equipment for the hospitality sector in Spain and Portugal.
22nd April 2024
Ideal opens southern heat pump training centre
UK: Ideal Heating has opened a new £1m heat pump installation training centre in Bedfordshire to serve the south of England.
22nd April 2024
UAE signs up to Kigali Amendment
UAE: The United Arab Emirates has become the latest country to sign up to the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol.
22nd April 2024
Beijer Ref to acquire US company Young Supply
USA: Swedish wholesaler Beijer Ref has signed an agreement to acquire Young Supply, a North American distributor of commercial refrigeration and HVAC with headquarters in Detroit, Michigan.
20th April 2024
Haier adds Finnish distributor Kataikko
FINLAND: Haier HVAC Europe has appointed Kataikko Oy, a prominent Finnish distributor of heat pumps, to its growing network of partners across Europe.
20th April 2024
Carrier invests in data centre liquid cooling
USA: Carrier Ventures, the investment arm of Carrier Global Corporation, has entered into a partnership with US thermal engineering company Strategic Thermal Labs (STL) to advance data centre liquid cooling.
19th April 2024
Skelton honoured at ACR News Awards
UK: Marks & Spencer's technical manager John Skelton won this year’s Alan Moor Award for contributions to the industry at last night’s ACR News Awards in London.
19th April 2024
Carrier efficiency boost for CO2 racks
GERMANY: Carrier Commercial Refrigeration’s new CO2 efficiency booster skid is said to offer an energy efficient upgrade for refrigeration racks.
19th April 2024
Midea to acquire Arbonia HVAC businesses
SWITZERLAND: Midea has agreed the €760m purchase of Swiss group Arbonia’s Climate Division, which includes HVAC businesses Sabiana, Termovent and Tecna.
19th April 2024
Castel acquires majority stake in Dieci Electric
ITALY: Refrigeration and air conditioning components supplier Castel has announced the acquisition of a majority stake in Dieci Electric, a manufacturer of industrial RAC system electrical panels.
18th April 2024
Fan maker to expand US tooling centre
USA: German fan manufacturer EBM‑Papst is to add a 1,350m2 extension to its US manufacturing and engineering facility in Farmington, Connecticut.
18th April 2024
Artus adds larger hybrid fan coil
UK: Artus Air has added a larger model to its range of hybrid fan coil units.
18th April 2024
Thai ammonia leak sends 155 to hospital
THAILAND: An ammonia leak at an ice factory in Thailand’s Chonburi Province hospitalised more than 150 people of which nine are said to be in a serious condition.
17th April 2024
Barwinski heads Danfoss MENA sales
UAE: Danfoss has appointed Marcio Barwinski as its climate solutions sales director for the MENA area.
17th April 2024
Mike Gittoes joins Hubbard Products
UK: Mike Gittoes, former MD of Arctic Circle, has joined Ipswich-based refrigeration equipment manufacturer Hubbard Products as business development manager.