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Mike Smith wins Alan Moor Award

Mike Smith, centre, picks up his latest award from comedian and presenter Marcus Brigstocke and Bitzer UK MD Kevin Glass

UK: Mike Smith – made an honorary member of BSRIA just a few days ago – has received further acclaim by picking up the ACR News Alan Moor Award.

BSRIA’s engineering director received his latest honour in front of 250 guests at last night’s ACR News Awards ceremony at London’s Tower Hotel. 

The award, presented in memory of the former managing director of Bitzer UK, celebrates the contributions to the industry of an individual whose efforts have largely gone unrecognised.

Star of the night was the the Althermo DMR-H dry cooler, picking up the Air Conditioning Product of the Year award for distributor Klima-Therm. This hybrid adiabatic cooler was a winner at the National ACR & Heat Pump Awards in January, and highly commended at the last Cooling Industry Awards.

The Refrigeration Product of the Year went to Bitzer for its ACP ammonia compressor packs, a product range which was recently extended to offer capacities up to 3,600kW.

The winners in full:

Refrigeration Ancillary Product of the Year
Danfoss, FC103 enhanced VLT refrigeration drive

Refrigeration Product of the Year
Bitzer, ACP ammonia compressor pack

Heat Pump Product of the Year
Mitsubishi Electric, ultra quiet Ecodan

Air Conditioning Ancillary Product of the Year
Advanced Engineering, HydroFoam 2.0

Chiller Product of the Year
Carrier, AquaForce Vision 30KAV

Air Conditioning Product of the Year
Klima-Therm, hybrid adiabatic compact dry cooler

Trainee of the Year
Ryan Walton, AC Solutions Group

Website of the Year
Toshiba, Training Portal

Wholesaler/Distributor of the Year
TF Solutions

Service Engineer of the Year
Leighton Nottridge, Cad Air

Alan Moor Award
Mike Smith BSRIA

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