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ITALY: Carel’s iJF controller has helped Studio54, an Italian manufacturer of stainless steel refrigerated units, to achieve a 43% reduction in energy consumption on its latest product line.

UK: Carrier Solutions UK has supplied a Toshiba SHRMe 3-pipe VRF system to the new Reach Hotel in Manchester, a major refurbishment of the former La Reserve Aparthotel.

BELGIUM: The European refrigeration component manufacturers' association, ASERCOM, has joined forces with leading technology companies to develop standards, requirements and recommendations for the application of single pair ethernet technology.

UK: Teams from Beijer Ref recently joined with contractor Adcock Refrigeration and Air Conditioning to deliver an award-winning CO₂ plant installation for one of the UK’s best known jam manufacturers.

UK: Gedling Green, a regenerative housing project in Nottinghamshire, is employing Panasonic’s Aquarea J Series heat pumps with smart controls. The development by Keepmoat Homes…

UK: A logistically complex project involving the replacement of cooling units at a data centre in the Channel Islands has been successfully completed by Biggleswade-based Secure IT Environments (SITE).

UK: HVAC installer Pitkin & Ruddock chose an integrated environmental solution from Panasonic for its flagship HQ in Bury St Edmunds.

USA: Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a new evaporative cooling technology that could improve the energy efficiency of data centres…

UK: Panasonic recently provided a large R290 air-to-water heat pump system to the National Wool Museum, located in a large remote site based in South-West Wales.

UK: Beijer Ref’s high-speed Refrec Reclaim refrigerant recovery service has enabled contractor EJM Engineered Systems to recover 1200kg of refrigerant during a coldstore upgrade for a customer in Norfolk.

GERMANY: Panasonic Aquarea R290 heat pumps totalling 240kW have been cascaded to ensure efficient heat supply to the 6,000m² office building of Porsche Financial Services GmbH.

EUROPE: As industry awaits a decision on proposed PFAS restrictions, which could ban most current refrigerants, a leading law firm has raised doubts over the viability of such a ban.

CHILE: EBM-Papst is supplying EC fans to cool lasers at the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) astronomical observatory under construction in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile.

UK: The installation of heat pumps to replace gas-fired equipment is part of an £11m decarbonisation project announced for the University of Wolverhampton.

USA: Mastercard is to replace its gas heating and cooling system at its global headquarters in Purchase, New York, with a closed-loop ground-source heat pump system. 

UK: When Eurostar sought to replace the existing computer cooling units in the IT suite at its maintenance depot in London it chose Panasonic’s Tecnair P Series close control units.

BELGIUM: Daikin’s new European Development Centre (EDC) in Ghent incorporates the company’s own VRV systems and custom-built air handling units.

FINLAND: Swedish contractor Caverion is to employ Sabroe ammonia heat pumps utilising wastewater for a district heating network in Seinäjoki, Finland.

UK: ICS Cool Energy has helped deliver a critical cooling system upgrade at the Princess Royal University Hospital in Orpington.

UK: Schneider Electric has deployed its suite of smart building control solutions at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre.

UK: Artus Air’s hybrid fan coil units have been installed in the recently opened Voco Zeal Exeter Science Park – IHG Hotels & Resorts first branded net-zero carbon hotel.

CHINA: The adoption of Carel’s iJF controllers are said to have achieved significant energy savings for Chinese food service equipment manufacturer Hiron Commercial Cold Chain Co.

JAPAN: Chilled water for air conditioning at the upcoming 2025 World Expo in Osaka will be supplied by Panasonic absorption chillers.

UK: A South Yorkshire primary school has cut its carbon emissions by nearly 80% by installing a ground source heat pump and carrying out other energy efficiency measures.

UK: Luxury property developer Grace Homes has integrated Mitsubishi Electric air-source heat pumps at its Sysonby Lodge development in Melton Mowbray.

NORWAY: Daikin has supplied 71 EWFH-TZ D air-cooled free-cooling chillers, 330 fan array units, and eight control systems for Norway's largest data centre in Hamar. 

UK: Lancaster University has broken ground on its new Net Zero Energy Centre which will virtually eliminate the use of gas through the use of heat pumps.