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10 Dec 2025

Daikin opens second Australia factory

JAPAN: Daikin Australia has opened a new $28.6m manufacturing facility in Chipping Norton, New South Wales….

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9 Dec 2025

Fake R410A refrigerant mixed R40 with R32

CANADA: The Canadian government has revealed that the recently discovered fake refrigerant was a mixture of R32 and the potentially lethal methyl chloride (R40). …

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6 Dec 2025

New R&D lab to boost Daikin data centre push

USA: Daikin Applied is to build a new 71,000ft2 (6,600m2) extension to its R&D test lab in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to support the wider development of data centre cooling solutions….

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4 Dec 2025

Canada warns of potentially lethal counterfeit R410A

CANADA: Authorities in Canada have discovered counterfeit cylinders of R410A refrigerant containing potentially lethal methyl chloride….

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2 Dec 2025

Trane Technologies to buy liquid-to-chip business

USA: Trane Technologies has entered into a definitive agreement with Stellar Energy International Ltd to acquire its Stellar Energy Digital liquid-to-chip data centre cooling business….

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30 Nov 2025

Copeland warns of counterfeit compressors

GERMANY: Copeland has repeated warnings of counterfeit product on the market and the emergence of uncontrolled remanufactured compressors. …

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28 Nov 2025

Greek police shut down refrigerant smuggling ring

GREECE: Greek authorities claim to have dismantled a large-scale criminal organisation illegally importing refrigerants from Albania….

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27 Nov 2025

Daikin to build new applied factory in Saudi Arabia

SAUDI ARABIA: Daikin is to open a new chiller and hydronic heat pump manufacturing facility in Jeddah….

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24 Nov 2025

Hong Kong seizes 1,300 refrigerant cylinders

HONG KONG: Authorities in Hong Kong have seized 1,300 cylinders of suspected smuggled refrigerant with an estimated market value of HK$6.4m (US$822,000, €713,000)….

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20 Nov 2025

Nordic Climate expands into UK and Ireland

UK: The Nordic Climate Group, the acquisitive Swedish cooling and heating contractor group, has moved into the UK and Ireland markets with three acquisitions with revenues totalling over £50m….

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