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26th February 2026

Praise for Panasonic at new Ellis Training site

UK: Ellis Training’s move into a former Methodist church, last year, has transformed the 19th-century building into a leading-edge HVACR training facility. 
21st February 2026

Haier VRF keeps Knorr Bremse on track

HUNGARY: Haier VRF systems were chosen for a major upgrade of the heating and cooling requirements of the Budapest offices of Knorr Bremse Rail Systems.
21st February 2026

Vaillant heat pump proven in residential refurb

GERMANY: Heat pump technology, such as Vaillant’s Energy Unit 2.0, is helping to drive the European energy transition in existing multi-family buildings. 
15th February 2026

Polish plant reclaims 100% of used refrigerants

POLAND: A new refrigerant reclamation plant near Warsaw is using two processes to separate mixtures and reclaim nearly 100% of used refrigerants.
4th February 2026

Panasonic’s vertical approach to strawberry farming

UK: Panasonic PACi NX low-temperature units are being employed to provide precise and consistent climate conditions at a vertical farm research facility in Suffolk. The…
1st February 2026

CERN’s LHC cooling system supplies local heat network

FRANCE: Waste heat from the cooling system of CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is supplying a local residential and commercial heating network.
16th December 2025

Arup HQ switches to heat pumps

UK: Consultant Arup has significantly reduced the carbon footprint at its London headquarters by replacing gas boilers and R134a chillers with air-source heat pumps.
1st December 2025

Trane heat pumps land savings at Schipol Airport

NETHERLANDS: Trane heat pumps are combined with thermal energy storage (TES) systems in commercial office buildings located at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport.
30th November 2025

Fruit and vegetable wholesaler relies on propane

GERMANY: A propane chiller has replaced an R404A refrigeration system at a fresh produce supplier's warehouses in central Germany, reducing operating costs and improving the overall carbon footprint.
28th November 2025

Heating and cooling from sewage sludge

ITALY: The city of Peschiera Borromeo, near Milan, is home to Italy’s first district heating and cooling plant powered by biogas produced from sewage sludge.
26th November 2025

Jet Air Streams provide CO2 reducing solution

UK: Panasonic’s Jet Air Stream units are being employed to provide heating and cooling for a specialist surface preparation and coating company. 
20th November 2025

Exchange Quay receives sustainable upgrade

UK: FSW UK partnered with Sandbach-based contractor Austin Broady Associates and Mitsubishi Electric to install sustainable HVAC upgrades at the Greater Manchester office campus, Exchange Quay.
14th November 2025

Viessmann climate solutions set new standards

GERMANY: The Campo Novo Business aparthotel in Stuttgart-Vaihingen, is said to be setting new standards in energy efficiency and sustainability for modern living with climate solutions from Viessmann.
11th November 2025

Aermec six-pipe boosts campus efficiency

UK: Aermec heating and cooling equipment is providing the ideal conditions for a new £38m construction and engineering centre in Luton.
9th November 2025

SWEP takes key role in CERN’s CO2 cooling system

SWITZERLAND/FRANCE: Swedish manufacturer SWEP has supplied over a hundred brazed-plate heat exchangers for critical cooling roles at the CERN particle physics laboratory.
4th November 2025

Sunswap cracks zero-emission egg delivery

UK: Happy Eggs, the UK's responsibly-sourced egg brand, has begun rolling out the first of 40 Sunswap Endurance zero-emission transport refrigeration units.
22nd October 2025

Heat pumps judged quiet and efficient

UK: Panasonic air-source heat pumps have replaced two outdated and inefficient chillers providing air conditioning to a 200-year-old court building in East London.
12th October 2025

450kg of HFC recovered from rooftop VRFs in just five hours

UK: A-Gas has successfully recovered 450kg of HFCs from 22 Daikin VRV rooftop units in just five hours.
6th October 2025

Carrier FCUs help transform former gas works

UK: Carrier has supplied more than 1,000 Comfort Line fan coil units to Regent’s View, a landmark East London residential regeneration of the former Bethnal Green Gas Works.
30th September 2025

Engie supplies 100MW of cooling for data centres

GERMANY: Engie Refrigeration has received two major orders totalling nearly 100MW of cooling capacity for data centre operators in Asia and Europe.
29th September 2025

Cooling adventure park is child’s play

UK: When a new kids indoor adventure and trampoline park required perfect indoor climate conditions for its clients it called upon Panasonic and its Jet Air Stream units. 
28th September 2025

ICS chiller keeps seafood process running

UK: An ageing, failing chiller has been successfully replaced without interrupting production at a leading UK supplier of freshly cooked seafood.
23rd September 2025

Copeland ammonia chiller has dairy date

USA: Copeland has supplied its Vilter VQ95 single-screw industrial ammonia heat pump to global dairy processor Saputo for its facility in in Abbotsford, British Columbia.
23rd September 2025

Carrier R290 heat pump secures hotel booking

UK: The Radisson Hotel Manchester City Centre has become the first hospitality venue in the UK to install Carrier Commercial HVAC’s new R290 AquaSnap 61AQ heat pumps.
18th September 2025

MHI VRF in Romanian residential first

ROMANIA: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries VRF systems with Airzone intelligent zoning control have been supplied to a prestigious apartment development in Bucharest. 
16th September 2025

Panasonic connects with Yorkshire homes

UK: Panasonic Heating & Cooling Solutions has provided its Aquarea  heat pumps for heating and DHW at a new development of 14 homes in Halifax.
21st August 2025

Cooling is out of reach for over 1 billion people

AUSTRIA: People at high risk due to inadequate access to cooling for thermal comfort, food preservation, and medical products is projected to rise to 1.05 billion by 2030.
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