World News

UK: Refrigerant manufacturer Solstice has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Florida-based specialty chemical manufacturer and supplier Element Solutions Inc in a deal valued at approximately $14.5bn.

USA: In what is being dubbed one of the biggest efficiency leaps in data center history, US technology company NVIDIA is employing liquid cooling at up to 45ºC.

EUROPE: Heat pump projects in Czechia and Croatia are among 51 energy-related projects to benefit from €2.5bn of total funding from the European Commission and…

JAPAN: Daikin is to begin joint verification of a cooling optimisation solution to predict the thermal state inside data centre servers with leading IT company NTT Data. 

MALAYSIA: Vertiv has opened a new 21,900m2 manufacturing facility in Johor, Malaysia, to support growing demand for AI and high-density computing infrastructure across Asia.

USA: In a number of leadership changes at Daikin Applied Americas, chief operating officer Yu Nishiwaki has been named as its new president and CEO.

SPAIN: Tefcold, the Danish commercial refrigeration equipment wholesaler, has acquired the HoReCa-related assets of Spanish company Clima Hosteleria.

FRANCE: Climalife has laid the foundation stone for a new refrigerant distillation plant at the Osiris industrial park in Péage-de-Roussillon, Isère, southern France.

SWEDEN: Nordic Climate Group’s Swedish subsidiary Kylgruppen has acquired Bromma Energi, a fellow Swedish company specialising in the installation and service of heat pump systems. 

USA: The Air Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Institute (AHRI) has accused the US EPA of “a lack of proper procedure” in its recent decision to roll back parts of the AIM Act. 

EUROPE: The purchase price of reclaimed R404A in Europe showed further increases in the first quarter of this year, according to latest figures from the European Commission.

GERMANY: Motor and fan manufacturer Ziehl-Abegg is investing an additional €90m in machinery, tooling and production capacity across Europe, North America and Asia.

USA: Sarah E Maston has been installed as president of ASHRAE for 2026–27. 

JAPAN/INDIA: Daikin has announced plans to establish an air conditioning research and development company in India.

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USA: HVAC contractor organisations have challenged the US EPA’s technology transitions reconsideration rule, claiming that it's legally flawed, economically reckless, and directly at odds with the AIM Act.

BELGIUM: European refrigerant manufacturers, distributors and reclaimers have come together to form a new association to promote circularity, and ensure the effective implementation of, and compliance with, EU regulations.

JAPAN: Carrier is to launch a campaign in Japan to highlight the origins of air conditioning and its value to society to mark Air Conditioning Invention Day on July 17. 

JAPAN: Daikin is one of the companies behind the trial of an air-conditioned bench for urban outdoor public spaces.

ITALY: Enex Technologies, the Treviso-based industrial and commercial cooling equipment manufacturer, has signed a €35.5m ESG-linked refinancing agreement.

BELGIUM: Rainer Grosse-Kracht, chief technology officer at compressor manufacturer Bitzer, has been named as president of the European Partnership for Energy and the Environment (EPEE).

GERMANY: The influential German environmental aid association Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH) is calling on the German government to end subsidies for electric cars with R1234yf refrigerants in their AC systems.

USA: Daikin has agreed to pay an $8.5m civil penalty for failing to immediately report that one of its US-made Amana packaged terminal air conditioners could overheat.

KOREA: The Korean Ministry of Climate, Energy and Environment and the Korea Environmental Industry & Technology Institute has announced an initiative to improve the country's HFC refrigerant management.

INDIA: Seven people are reported to have died and over 70 hospitalised following an ammonia gas leak at a seafood factory in Tamil Nadu.

USA: Daikin Applied has broken ground on a new $30m training facility in Plymouth, Minnesota.

USA: Lennox has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Heat Controller, the Michigan-based owner of the Comfort-Aire and Century HVAC brands.