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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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

UK: Panasonic air-source heat pumps have replaced two outdated and inefficient chillers providing air conditioning to a 200-year-old court building in East London.

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

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.

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

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. 

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

IRELAND: A heat-transfer fluid employing sub-micron particles of aluminium oxide is said to have achieved a 13% reduction in chiller energy consumption at a pharmaceutical cold storage facility in Malaysia.

SWITZERLAND: Two Trane heat pumps, with a total capacity of 3.2MW, are upgrading waste heat from a data centre to supply hot water a district heating network in Geneva.

UK: Renfrewshire Council is to replace the gas supply in two of its high-rise blocks of flats with ground-source heat pumps – the largest installation of its kind in Scotland.

UK: Carrier Solutions UK has partnered with River Island and contractor Bry-Kol Developments to deliver a tailored HVAC solution for the retailer’s expanded store at The Chimes Shopping Centre, Uxbridge.

AUSTRIA: Wien Energie has commissioned a large-scale €22m district cooling plant using ice storage on the MedUni Mariannengasse campus in Vienna's Alsergrund district. 

KAZAKHSTAN: Liebherr has supplied the first batch of an order of 550 HVAC systems to the Swiss rolling-stock manufacturer Stadler Rail for a contract in Kazakhstan.

EGYPT: Johnson Controls-Hitachi Air Conditioning is to deliver over 3,000 air conditioning units for stations on Egypt’s flagship high-speed rail project.

UK: A-Gas Rapid Recovery recently recovered 14 tonnes of R134a refrigerant from a major UK pharmaceutical facility in just five days.

UK: Refra has supplied six hydrocarbon heat pumps for a new district heating network under construction in Solihull, West Midlands.