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Walmart urged to cut its HFC emissions
USA: Green America, a leading green economy organisation, has joined with the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) in calling on retailer Walmart to…
Daikin ac sales grow 5% in Q1
JAPAN: Daikin has recorded new highs for sales and operating income in the first quarter of 2019, up 4% to JPY681.3bn ($6.41bn)…
Airedale slams firms flouting Ecodesign regs
UK: Airedale International is preparing to lobby the UK government over the sales of air conditioning products which, it says, fail to…
Creamer and Fox vie for Institute of Refrigeration presidency
UK: Two well known industry figures – Graeme Fox, current head of REFCOM and Mike Creamer of Business Edge – will compete to be the next president of the IoR….
Illegal imports hit Chemours refrigerant sales
USA: Chemours has blamed the impact of illegal HFC refrigerant imports into Europe for an 11% dip in net sales in its fluoroproducts…
VRF grows as US packaged AC market reaches $20.4bn
USA: VRF air conditioning shows further growth in the US market, as a new report estimates that total packaged AC sales rose…
EFCTC calls for incineration of illegal HFCs
BELGIUM: The European refrigerant producers group EFCTC is recommending the destruction of seized illegal HFCs, with offenders made to meet the associated…
US investor pushes for sale of Wolseley
UK: A leading US investor is reported to be pressing for the sale of UK HVAC product wholesaler Wolseley, which includes air…
Italy and Romania face F-gas infringement procedures
EUROPE: The European Commission has sent letters of formal notice to Italy and Romania for failing to notify national measures on penalties…
Honeywell stops patent-busting R1234yf shipment
USA/POLAND: Polish customs authorities have seized a shipment of suspected patent-infringing R1234yf refrigerant at the Baltic port of Gdynia….