UK News
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…
Hope for Grimsby Ice Factory
UK: Moves to address the decline of the crumbling Grimsby Ice Factory and its historic refrigeration equipment have begun following the acquisition…
Climalife offers college support
UK: Taking the careers theme of this year’s World Refrigeration Day, refrigerant supplier Climalife is offering to send speakers to colleges and…
Carrier Rental adds VLT chillers
UK: Carrier Rental Systems has added very low temperature chillers, based on the lower GWP refrigerant R449A and a secondary glycol circuit,…
McVittie named in top engineers’ list
UK: Linda McVittie of J & E Hall has been named in this year’s list of the top 50 women in engineering….