UK News
Test centre boost for medical fridge supplier
UK: Manchester-based CoolMed has increased its supply of specialist medical equipment during the pandemic by providing hundreds of fridges to one of the…
Daikin to support heat pump growth at Kew festival
UK: Daikin UK will be selling the benefits of heat pumps to visitors to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew this autumn….
IoR seeks new board members
UK: The Institute of Refrigeration has instigated its annual search for nominees to join its governing body, the board of trustees. …
CDL to distribute Carrier VRF
UK: Cool Designs Ltd (CDL), a long-term distributor of Toshiba Carrier air conditioning, has added Carrier’s recently introduced XCT7 VRF system to…
Gill heads ASHRAE refrigeration committee
UK/USA: Steve Gill, past president of the IoR and founder of World Refrigeration Day, has been made chair of ASHRAE’s Refrigeration Technology…
Sustainability on the airwaves
UK: Mitsubishi Electric has launched a series of podcasts on the sustainable, zero carbon and legislative issues affecting business today….
IoR rewards individual achievement
UK: Nausheen Basha, a university researcher, and Kevin Gregory, an influential long-serving engineer, have been named as winners in this year’s Institute…
Acoustic panel allows air to flow
UK: A pioneering material which reduces noise while allowing air to flow freely is to undergo trials in hospitals and other noisy…
£4m heat pump project targets net zero London
UK: Power supplier E.ON has started work on a £4m project to install one of the UK’s largest zero carbon heating and…
Cooling champion celebrates 90 years
UK: Dr Stephen Forbes Pearson, co-founder of Star Refrigeration and, arguably, one of the UK’s greatest living refrigeration engineers, has celebrated his…