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EPEE webinar looks to energy as a service
BELGIUM: EPEE is to broadcast a #CountOnCooling webinar focusing on rethinking existing relationships between producers and consumers and shifting to service-based models….
Italy’s Art Serf selects R455A
BELGIUM: Art Serf, an Italian manufacturer of refrigerated display cases, is using Honeywell’s Solstice L40X (R455A) refrigerant in its new, commercial “plug-in”…
Trane hit by COVID-19 in Asia Pacific
IRELAND: Trane Technologies reports revenue down 6% to $2,641m in the first quarter of 2020, with the greatest impact of COVID-19 in…
Chemours impacted by lower refrigerant sales and prices
USA: Lower refrigerant volumes and lower prices have contributed to Chemours suffering a sales drop to $1.3bn in the first quarter of…
German groups insist Chillventa must take place
GERMANY: Two of Germany’s leading refrigeration and air conditioning organisations have written to NürnbergMesse, the organisers of Chillventa 2020, pleading for the…
Serious concern over Chillventa 2020
GERMANY: The Chillventa 2020 organiser is facing the possibility that this year’s event might not happen or, if it does, it may…
ISA uses worker tracking to ensure safety
ITALY: In reopening its factory in Bastia Umbra following the coronavirus lockdown, ISA has adopted a worker tracking system to guarantee the…
Producing ammonia using less energy
JAPAN: Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology claim to have developed a means of producing ammonia using only half the energy that…
China refrigeration show rescheduled to August
CHINA: The China Refrigeration Expo 2020, postponed due to the COVID-19 epidemic, will now take place in August in Chongqing….
ACCA VP Washam joins the EPA
USA: Todd Washam, vice president of public policy & industry relations of the Air Conditioning Contractors of America is to join the…