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Cool Talk meeting online

UK: The recently formed South West and South Wales Refrigeration Society (SWSWRS) is to host its first online IOR Cool Talk Breakfast Briefing next month.

Organised in conjunction with the IOR, the webinar on October 5 is aimed at engineers and technicians providing them with an informal platform to ask questions on topical issues and find out more about the work of the SWSWRS and the IOR.

The programme will include three CPD talks on refrigerants and refrigeration controls:

Looking for the final very low GWP solution? It may not be what you expect!, presented by Chemours technical development manager Neil Roberts 

Refrigeration control solutions, by Stephen Davies, national sales manager Carel UK

R32 applications for air conditioning, by Matteo DallOmbra, VRV product specialist Daikin UK. 

Find out more and register here.

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