News Headlines
23rd October 2025
RACES promises a new voice for HVACR engineers
UK: Former IOR president Graeme Fox is behind a new society, launched today and described as the “new voice” for engineers working in the UK refrigeration, air conditioning and heat pump sector.
21st October 2025
Beijer Ref to unite UK wholesalers
UK: Beijer Ref is to unite its UK and Ireland wholesale operations into two brands – Beijer Ref UK and Beijer Ref Ire.
21st October 2025
Third of UK heat pumps are UK manufactured
UK: New figures from the Heat Pump Association (HPA) show that 32,920 of the 98,345 heat pumps sold in the UK in 2024 were manufactured domestically, accounting for a third of the total factory gate sales.
22nd October 2025
HFO refrigerant pioneer Yana Motta joins Orbia
USA: Dr Samuel F Yana Motta, a pioneer in the development of HFO refrigerants, has joined refrigerant manufacturer Orbia Advance Corporation as global refrigerant applications director.
21st October 2025
Singapore’s largest industrial district cooling system
SINGAPORE: Described as Singapore’s largest, an industrial district cooling system, built, owned, and operated by a joint venture between SP Group and Daikin Singapore, is now in operation.
20th October 2025
Beijer Ref takes majority stake in Baltic distributor
SWEDEN/ESTONIA: Beijer Ref has signed an agreement to acquire 80% of the shares in Airwave, a leading HVAC distributor in the Baltic markets.
23rd October 2025
RACES promises a new voice for HVACR engineers
UK: Former IOR president Graeme Fox is behind a new society, launched today and described as the “new voice” for engineers working in the UK refrigeration, air conditioning and heat pump sector.
22nd October 2025
Guide to heat pump pipework insulation
UK: The Thermal Insulation Contractors Association (TICA) has joined forces with key industry partners to launch a good practice guide to the thermal insulation of heat pump installations.
21st October 2025
Beijer Ref to unite UK wholesalers
UK: Beijer Ref is to unite its UK and Ireland wholesale operations into two brands – Beijer Ref UK and Beijer Ref Ire.
19th October 2025
Simplified evaporator control panels
DENMARK: Danfoss has launched Cool Ctrl, a new range of evaporator control panels that are said to greatly simplify design, installation, and commissioning for contractors and system integrators.
16th October 2025
Power converter will electrify diesel reefers
FRANCE: Carrier Transicold is to unveil a power solution that transforms high-voltage direct current from a tractor’s battery into the alternating current needed to operate a refrigeration unit.
10th October 2025
BAC upgrades immersion cooling tank
USA: Baltimore Aircoil Company (BAC) has release enhanced versions of its immersion cooling tank designed for high-performance data centres.
22nd October 2025
Heat pumps judged quiet and efficient
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.
12th October 2025
450kg of HFC recovered from rooftop VRFs in just five hours
UK: A-Gas has successfully recovered 450kg of HFCs from 22 Daikin VRV rooftop units in just five hours.
6th October 2025
Carrier FCUs help transform former gas works
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.
31st August 2025
Cooling at an AI crossroads
Piergiorgio Tagliapietra, senior director of application engineering thermal management EMEA at critical infrastructure technologies company Vertiv, looks at how AI workloads are reshaping data centre cooling requirements.
25th June 2025
A call to innovate, not compromise
To mark World Refrigeration Day, Hakan Bulgurlu, CEO of Beko, Europe’s leading home appliance brand, writes of HVACR’s pivotal role in the global energy and climate transition.
11th June 2025
Heat networks should go beyond just heating
In light of the current UK rollout of heat network zones, Neil Parry, Alfa Laval’s global head of district energy, has highlighted the necessity for district cooling, and how this can create a national district energy infrastructure.
20th October 2025
Celebrating Heat Pump Day
BELGIUM: The European Heat Pump Association (EHPA) is promising a wide range of activities to celebrate this year’s Heat Pump Day on October 21.
20th October 2025
ASHRAE reveals 2026 Winter Conference schedule
USA: ASHRAE has published its full technical programme for its 2026 Winter Conference in Las Vegas.
8th October 2025
Samsung opens training centre in Chertsey
UK: Samsung Climate Solutions is aiming to train around 1,000 installers over the next 12 months at its newest training facility in Chertsey, Surrey.