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UK: Panasonic’s Aquarea Service Cloud app is helping to ensure that over 700 social housing tenants are operating their heat pumps correctly.

UK: A leading bar operator is using innovative heat recovery technology from wholesale group Beijer Ref to reduce energy costs and achieve ambitious sustainability targets.

UK: Ciat has supplied three ClimaCiat AirAccess AHUs to a brand new, purpose-built new hub for the performing arts in the Chiltern Hills.

GERMANY: A prefabricated modular heating centre, containing three R290 heat pumps, is set to provide sustainable heating to a residential apartment block in Penzberg, Bavaria.

GERMANY: Güntner has received a repeat order for air coolers and evaporative condensers after the equipment’s success in cooling a mango packing facility in Brazil.…

JAPAN: Daikin will be drawing inspiration from traditional icehouses based on sustainable air conditioning systems to keep people cool at next year’s World Expo in Osaka, Japan.

UK: Refrec Reclaim, Beijer Ref’s new refrigerant recovery service, has completed a project to remove 750kg of refrigerant from one of London's tallest office blocks.

UK: Ciat air handers and heat recovery units have been employed at the new Radisson RED Liverpool, a Grade II-listed property with roots dating back to the 1800s.

UK: Ground-source heating company Kensa has installed an open-loop water-source heat pump system using warm spring water to heat two council buildings.

JAPAN: A new survey by Daikin has revealed stark differences between people’s attitudes to, and usage of, air conditioning in cities around the world. 

SWITZERLAND/DENMARK: MAN Energy Solutions is to supply a further CO2 heat pump to one of the world’s largest naturally-cooled seawater heat pump plants in Aalborg, Denmark.

USA: The University of Missouri is developing a new type of cooling system which it claims could dramatically reduce energy demands on data centres.

UK: Dedicated support from the MHI Projects team has helped provide a climate control upgrade for the UK home of a leading global glass processing specialist.

AUSTRALIA: An indirect evaporative CO2 refrigeration system which promises potential energy savings of 19% is being trialled in one of Australia's leading supermarkets.

USA: The first data centre at Corscale’s Gainesville Crossing campus is set to open following the successful integrated systems testing (IST) of the recently installed Airedale by Modine cooling solution.

UK: Painting roofs white would be more effective at cooling cities like London than vegetation-covered “green roofs”, street-level vegetation or solar panels, a new study claims.

USA: Work by a research team led by the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory is providing a better understanding of solid-state cooling materials.

CANADA: Soteck Clauger has developed a high temperature heat pump using the HFO refrigerant R1233zd for a food processing application.

SWITZERLAND: Researchers have found that varying the composition of refrigerant mixtures can enable heat pumps to generate different temperatures from different heat sources, while increasing efficiency by up to 25%.

IRELAND: Trane is helping to further our understanding of the Earth's climate system by helping to preserve and transport Antarctic ice cores to Germany.

TAIWAN: Evergreen Marine Corp, one of the world’s leading shipping lines, is enhancing operations by deploying Carrier Transicold’s Lynx Fleet monitoring solution onto 7,000 refrigerated containers. 

UK: Fujitsu General Air Conditioning UK is helping to deliver the best possible growing conditions for a vertical farming enterprise in Northamptonshire.

UK: Mitsubishi Electric is to provide heating, cooling and ventilation equipment to Chester Zoo, the not-for-profit conservation zoo in Cheshire.

UK: Daikin EWAH~TZ air-cooled VFD screw compressor chillers, using HFO refrigerant R1234ze(E), have been at the centre of a major heating and cooling transplant at Basildon University Hospital.

ITALY: As well as benefitting the environment, the timely detection of a chiller refrigerant leak has saved costs and potential production downtime for a leading aluminium die-casting foundry.

UK: Three Bitzer Ecolite condensing units running on R454C have been installed at a leading Gloucestershire meat processor, one of the first such projects to be installed in the UK.

UK: The latest lower GWP Marstair cellar coolers are being employed to service the bars within one of Glasgow’s most historic live music venues.