Features
19th December 2015
Cooling Post – holiday schedule
The Cooling Post offices will remain open throughout the forthcoming Christmas and New Year break to ensure you are kept up to date with the…
18th November 2015
Study proves value of good indoor air quality
USA: A new study has found that the energy costs required to double the ventilation rate in typical office buildings can be more than offset…
17th November 2015
Daikin cools the airwaves
[caption id="attachment_17062" align="alignright" width="400"] Steve Fox, contract sales engineer at Daikin UK (left), discusses being cool with Shane Carey director of Reprezent[/caption] UK: Known to…
17th November 2015
AHR Expo 2016 Preview
USA: Orlando is to play host to an estimated 50,000 visitors from the HVACR industry when the AHR Expo visits the city at the end…
15th November 2015
Starfrost trio ensures quality seafood
UK: A trio of Starfrost systems are providing the vital freezing requirements at a new seafood production facility in Devon. The systems are part of…
15th November 2015
Panasonic has the climate right at Heal’s
UK: A Panasonic VRF system is providing the ideal conditions at the newly-refurbished, iconic Heal’s furniture store on London’s Tottenham Court Road. The restoration of…
11th November 2015
CO2 is the link to “greener” rinks
USA: The Alaska Aces professional ice hockey team is skating on “greener” ice this season after becoming the second rink in the USA to install…
11th November 2015
College entry for hybrid chiller
UK: The first UK installation of Rhoss EXP hybrid cooling and heating technology from Klima-Therm has been completed at the new Creative Industries Centre at…
4th November 2015
Good IAQ improves workers’ response
[caption id="attachment_16800" align="alignright" width="400"] The study was conducted at the Total Indoor Environmental Quality Laboratory at the Syracuse Center of Excellence in Syracuse, New York[/caption]…
30th October 2015
Two years brings double celebrations
The Cooling Post marks its second birthday today with a number of significant double landmarks. In addition to celebrating two years of bringing you the…
27th October 2015
Getting to grips with illegal refrigerants
BELARUS: Although ODS regulations are being strengthening across the region, illegal refrigerant imports are still a problem for CIS countries and other former Soviet Republics. …
25th October 2015
Bitzer puts Covent in control
NORWAY: A three-year search for the optimal compressor with capacity control by Norwegian AHU manufacturer Covent has ended with the selection of a Bitzer Ecoline…
21st October 2015
Turnkey solution for poultry supplier
UK: Carrier Rental Systems recently came to the rescue of one of the UK’s leading suppliers of eggs and poultry, following a breakdown of its…
11th October 2015
Readership continues to rise
The Cooling Post continues to confound expectations with visitor statistics in September matching record-breaking visitor figures in August. Despite seemingly realistic expectations that September figures might struggle to emulate August's huge…
7th October 2015
CO2 system helps Tegut to eco award
GERMANY: CO2 technology from Carrier Commercial Refrigeration has helped a Tegut supermarket in Marburg-Cappel to become the first supermarket to receive a German Blue Angel…
30th September 2015
Hollywood calls for Precision Refrigeration
UK: Hollywood came calling on British refrigeration manufacturer Precision last year, to help out a big film production that’s due on screens in October. Bradley…
21st September 2015
Costan passes the Italian test
ITALY: Costan’s ability to adapt refrigeration systems to the confinements of space was put to the test in an installation at the famous Piazza del…
16th September 2015
RD&T overcomes a whale of a problem
[caption id="attachment_15877" align="alignright" width="318"] The humpback whale carcass on arrival[/caption] UK: They might say that no job is too big but RD&T, the Bristol-based refrigeration…
14th September 2015
Transcritical CO2 set to grow five-fold by 2020
[caption id="attachment_6374" align="alignright" width="400"] This Sprouts store in the US is already using transcritical CO2 – many are expected to follow[/caption] Global sales of transcritical…
14th September 2015
HVACR sales show marked differences in 2014
[caption id="attachment_15803" align="alignright" width="400"] The EMEA chiller market in 2014[/caption] While sales figures for HVACR equipment across Europe, the Middle East and Africa in 2014…
11th September 2015
Cascade system earns highest GreenChill status
USA: The deployment of an ammonia/CO2 cascade refrigeration system has helped a supermarket in Columbus, Georgia, achieve the EPA’s highest GreenChill platinum status. The Piggly…
11th September 2015
Success is in the pipeline
[caption id="attachment_15757" align="alignright" width="400"] The air-cooled condensers were mounted on the existing mountings[/caption] UK: An unusually long underground run of refrigerant pipework has been employed…
31st August 2015
Possibly the best website in Europe
The Cooling Post witnessed further huge increases in web traffic in August, breaking records across the board and making it, possibly, the biggest air conditioning…
30th August 2015
US defence agency adopts CO2 refrigeration
USA: The US Defence Commissary Agency (DeCA) is looking to increase its adoption of CO2 refrigeration systems after the successful installation of a cascade system…
26th August 2015
What future for R410A?
Interesting new low GWP alternative refrigerants, combined with an expected relaxation of charge limits on flammable refrigerants, suggest that the days of R410A being the…
19th August 2015
VRF technology rocks the US
USA: The US government is increasingly issuing waivers to its “Buy American” policy as public facilities seek the energy saving advantages of VRF air conditioning…
18th August 2015
Buyer sought for historic Linde compressor
GERMANY: A good home is being sought for an historic 100-year-old Linde refrigeration compressor. Historische Kälte- und Klimatechnik, a German society committed to documenting and…