World News
Useful guide for Indian engineers
INDIA: GIZ Proklima, the German Society for International Co-operation, has produced a handbook for Indian technicians servicing room air conditioners….
Newsletter returns “astonishing” results
The interest created by the weekly Cooling Post newsletter, is reflected in latest figures that confirm it is thrashing newsletter readership statistics…
Dairy faces fine for ammonia leak
FRANCE: A French dairy could face a hefty fine for an ammonia leak which polluted local rivers and led to the death…
Chinese accused of dumping R134a
USA: Refrigerant manufacturer Mexichem has petitioned the US government to impose sanctions on R134a imports from China….
Panasonic and Hitachi add R32 units
JAPAN: Panasonic and Hitachi have joined Daikin and Mitsubishi Electric in announcing the introduction of air conditioning units running on the low…
Magnetics attracts €2.12m EU funding
EUROPE: Research into producing a domestic refrigerator based on magnetic cooling technology has been backed by €2.12m of funding from the European…
Student award for best cold chain paper
UK: The organisers of the IIR’s Conference on Sustainability and the Cold Chain have extended the deadline for paper abstract submissions to…
Are ionic liquids the future?
USA: A novel twist on the established vapour compression cycle could provide a non-toxic, non-flammable and energy efficient answer to the search…
World moves closer to HFC phase-down
BANGKOK: The world moved closer to an HFC phase-down as last week’s 25th Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol…
DuPont to spin-off refrigerants business
USA: DuPont will spin-off of its refrigerants business within the next 18 months, the company has confirmed….