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Refrigerant Report lists new Honeywell and Daikin refrigerants
GERMANY: Compressor manufacturer Bitzer’s latest Refrigerant Report 21, published this week, includes interesting new alternatives….
Report charts impact of Covid-19
FRANCE: Heat exchanger products, cooling towers and air filters are the HVACR products that have best withstood the Covid-19 crisis, according to…
Air conditioning faces Covid challenge
UK: Market research company BSRIA has revised its global air conditioning sales predictions for 2020 and 2021 as a result of the…
Refrigerant demand and prices fall
EUROPE: The effects of Covid-19 are held at least partly responsible for a fall in refrigerant demand and prices in the quarter to September….
CCC Holdings Europe receives €18m investment
ITALY: CCC Holdings Europe, which purchased CO2 refrigeration company Enex and heat exchanger manufacturer Roen Est earlier this year, has received €18m from the Italian Energy Efficiency Fund II (IEEF II)….
Unicold agrees $200k fine for ammonia breaches
USA: Cold storage and distribution company Unicold has agreed to pay a $210,564 fine and implement changes to reduce the risk of…
New York finalises HFC reduction rules
USA: New York has announced new regulations to reduce HFC usage by adopting changes to the EPA’s Significant New Alternatives Policy that were…
Carrier China opens 6000RT chiller test lab
CHINA: Carrier China has officially unveiled a 6000RT capacity water-cooled chiller performance testing lab at its new manufacturing plant in Baoshan Industrial…
Airedale and Asperitas go head-to-head in live debate
UK: Two leading players in the data centre cooling market are to go head-to-head live online to debate whether air or immersion cooling represents the future of data centre cooling….
Air Liquide takes 80% stake in cryogenics business
FRANCE: Cryogenic gas supplier Air Liquide has acquired 80% of the capital of the French company Cryoconcept, a specialist in low temperature…