John Emm is ACR Champion
10th June 2022
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
