World News

USA: Florida-based Blue Frontier, a developer of air conditioners using liquid desiccant technology, has joined Amazon’s Sustainability Accelerator programme to accelerate the development of climate breakthrough technologies.

ITALY: CCC Holdings Europe, holding company of HVACR equipment manufacturer Enex Technologies, has reinforced its capital structure with a non-convertible €25m PIK bond.

DENMARK/ITALY: Danfoss has acquired Palladio, the Italian manufacturer of high-efficiency screw compressors.

DENMARK: A new report from the European Environment Agency predicts that, in future, southern European member states could be consuming 71% of total annual energy for residential cooling.

SWEDEN/NETHERLANDS: The Nordic Climate Group continues its expansion in the Netherlands with the acquisition of Breda-based contractor Huijbregts Koeltechniek.

THAILAND: Chinese air conditioning manufacturer Haier has officially opened its new US$400m factory in Chonburi, Thailand.

GERMANY: Chemical company BASF has broken ground on a new formic acid plant in Ludwigshafen that will use one of the largest industrial heat pumps…

BELGIUM/CZECH REPUBLIC: A new guide has been published to address common questions on the interpretation of Ecodesign requirements for fans as set out in EU regulation 2024/1834.

JAPAN: Daikin is looking to produce air conditioner heat exchangers made from recycled aluminium after perfecting horizontal recycling technology.

GERMANY: Bluu Unit, a group of refrigeration, air conditioning and ventilation firms, has signed an agreement to acquire Düsseldorf-based contractor KKL Holding GmbH.

GERMANY/POLAND: German manufacturer Bosch has announced the suspension of its €280m investment in a new heat pump factory in Poland.

ITALY: A group with a turnover of nearly €80m has been formed following the acquisition of Padua-based refrigeration equipment manufacturer Criocabin and Brianza-based refrigerated display case manufacturer CierreEsse.

USA: A second fatality has been reported in the legionnaires’ disease outbreak in Marshalltown, Iowa.

GERMANY: A German residential real estate company plans to install over 1,000 packaged air-source propane heat pump units in apartment buildings.

USA: Thermal management and liquid cooling systems manufacturer XNRGY is to build a brand-new, 330,000ft2 facility in Mesa, Arizona, dedicated to producing its next-generation air-cooled chiller. 

BRUNEI DARUSSALAM: Brunei Darussalam has become the latest country to have officially ratify the Kigali Amendment to phase down HFCs.

USA: Johnson Controls has been awarded a $156m contract to supply chillers and related equipment to the US Department of Defense.

SOUTH KOREA: Hanon Systems, supplier of components for Volkswagen Group’s MEB platform for electric cars, has passed the production landmark of 1 million electric CO2 compressors.

INDIA: A new report into India’s rapidly growing residential air conditioning market and its potential effects on global warming has revealed refill rates far higher than the global norm.

USA: United Nations secretary general António Guterres has urged governments to fully ratify and implement the Kigali Amendment to phase down HFCs.

USA: A man who confessed to smuggling five cylinders of illegal R22 refrigerant into the USA has been sentenced to three-years' probation, including 15 days’ time served.

DENMARK: Austrian Jonas Danninger, an employee of Hauser GmbH, won the Refrigeration and Air Conditioning gold medal at last week’s EuroSkills competition in Herning, Denmark.

USA: Carrier has become the first manufacturer to complete the US Department of Energy's Commercial Building HVAC Technology Challenge laboratory validation in the 10-14ton rooftop heat pump category.

DENMARK/NETHERLANDS: Danfoss Plate Heat Exchangers has sold its Dutch heat exchanger subsidiary, Sondex BV, to heat exchanger experts Theo Thoen and Hans Ter Velde.

SAUDI ARABIA: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has become the latest country to have officially accepted the Kigali Amendment to phase down HFCs.

INDIA: One person died and 12 were reportedly hospitalised on Wednesday (10 September) after a leak in a pipeline at the Gujarat Fluorochemicals refrigerant plant in Ranjitnagar, India.

CANADA/INDIA: Montreal-based Smardt Chillers is to supply its oil-free centrifugal chillers to Indian company Shree Refrigerations, a leading player in cooling solutions serving the defence sector.