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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.

UK: Exchange Quay, a landmark office campus in Manchester, has improved the energy efficiency of one of its major buildings by replacing gas boilers with Mitsubishi Electric air-source heat pumps.

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.