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John Emm is ACR Champion

UK: John Emm, technical director of Pumps2Go, has been awarded ACR Journal’s ACR Champion Award after 58 years in the industry. 

The award was presented at last night’s National ACR & Heat Pump Awards in Leeds in front of an audience of 400 from the refrigeration, air conditioning and heat pump industry.

John Emm began his career with a five-year apprenticeship in 1964, going on to work for a number of well known companies, including eight years at Dean & Wood as a sales engineer and, eventually, branch manager at Eastleigh. After a spell in Saudi Arabia at Refrigeration House, one of that country’s major refrigeration and HVAC wholesalers, he joined Dawmec, the former UK distributor of DWM Copeland compressors, eventually becoming MD. In 2000 he became MD of pack builder Enetech Products and moved to Kooltech in 2006 as OEM sales manager. After three years at German controls company Kriwan he left to form his own company condensate pump distribution company Pumps2Go in 2015.

In other awards, Laura Bishop, chair of the Ground Source Heat Pump Association and director of Infinitas Design, won the RACHP Woman of the Year award. Continuing the women’s theme, Gemma Watson of J&E Hall was named ACR Trainee of the year.

The full list of categories and winners:

Wholesaler/Distributor
Secon Renewables and AUK

ACR Contractor
Cross Group

ACR Product
Panasonic
Etherea with nanoe X Technology

ACR Project
GEA Heating & Refrigeration Technologies
Compressor Replacements

ACR Ancillary Product
Bitzer
Digital Network

Chiller Product
Johnson Controls – York
Redefined YVAA chiller

Refrigeration Project/innovation
SURE Solutions
Project Aquarius

Training Provider
Climalife 
College Speaker Programme

Environmental Initiative
Viessmann
ViMove

Marketing Initiative
Grant Engineering UK
With You on the Journey 

Heat Pump Product
Grant Engineering UK
Aerona³ R32 Air Source Heat Pump Range 

Air Source Project
UK Alternative Energy and Secon Renewables
Grange Barn project

Domestic Ground Source Project
G S Renewable
Lime House project

Non-Domestic Ground Source Project
Calibrate Energy
West Ancroft 8,188kW ground source heat pump

Heat Pump Installer
R A Brown Heating Services

ACR Trainee of the Year
Gemma Watson 
J&E Hall 

Heat Pump Trainee of the Year
Stuart Perfect 
GS Renewable

RACHP Woman of the Year 
Laura Bishop 
GSHPA

Phil Creaney’s ACR Champion
John Emm
Pumps2Go

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