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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.

UK: Samsung has delivered state of the art heating and cooling to a new bar, restaurant, cafe, and social workspace within Manchester Central, the city’s convention centre. 

UK: A new Bitzer ammonia refrigeration system installed by Armstrong Refrigeration Services Ltd at a Lincolnshire-based frozen food specialist is reducing energy costs by more than £100,000 a year.

UK: Property development and investment company British Land is benefitting from new heat pump technology that has fully replaced the use of gas at its London headquarters.

UK: A five-bedroom bungalow in Thurso, Scotland, is the first property in the UK to install Panasonic’s propane Aquarea 9kW M Series heat pump.

UK: Panasonic low temperature air conditioning is creating a wide range of conditions for staff and customers at a family-run undertakers in West Wickham, Kent.

GERMANY: MAN Energy Solutions is supplying Europe’s largest heat-pump system to a district heating system in Cologne, drawing energy from the river Rhine.

UK: The replacement of gas boilers with Mitsubishi Electric air-source heat pumps is helping Bournemouth University in its aim of decarbonising heat across its extensive campus.

UK: Mitsubishi Electric Ecodan air-source heat pumps are providing the tropical conditions for the butterfly house at Chester Zoo.

UK: Green Point UK, Bitzer UK’s compressor services arm, is remanufacturing air conditioning compressors for Siemens’ UK trains. To date, Green Point UK has remanufactured…