UK News
Star achieves IIP Platinum
UK: Star Refrigeration has achieved Investors in People Platinum accreditation, a level achieved by only 3% of IIP accredited companies. …
MPs call for more heat pump engineers
UK: The Environmental Audit Committee has warned that government plans to install 600,000 heat pumps a year by 2028 could fail without…
Employee investment pays off
UK: Fresh from forming a landmark employee ownership trust, Yorkshire-based Wave Refrigeration has been ranked No1 amongst Investors in People accredited businesses…
Vern Klein joins Coolstop
UK: Vern Klein has left Pump House to join Ron Lloyd’s air conditioning and refrigeration wholesaling business Coolstop….
Wave Refrigeration moves to employee ownership
UK: Wave Refrigeration has become one of less than 500 UK companies to form an employee ownership trust (EOT) and transition to…
Sdiptech acquires GAH Refrigeration
UK/SWEDEN: Suffolk-based transport refrigeration company GAH (Refrigeration) Ltd has been acquired by Sdiptech AB, a Swedish business providing research and product development…
Thermo King cools Tesco’s all-electric vans
UK: Tesco, the largest UK retailer and third-largest retailer in the world, has deployed 30 new fully-electric refrigerated vans, equipped with E-200 refrigeration…
UK must match EU F-gas changes
UK: In a raft of new proposals, the UK’s advisory body on climate change has called on the government to match or…
Retailers seek help on low GWP refrigeration
UK: The British Retail Consortium (BRC) has called for targeted financial support for the installation of climate-friendly refrigeration to aid its “critical…
Crewman was asphyxiated by leaking R22
UK: A ship’s second engineer working in the salt water tank of a trawler was asphyxiated by R22 leaking from the ship’s…