UK News

UK: Growing customer demand for ownership flexibility has promoted ICS Cool Energy to expand its cold store offering to include unit sales alongside its hire options. 

UK: Panasonic heat pumps are being employed at the company’s HX renewable energy demonstration facility in Cardiff.

UK: Spanish HVAC controls manufacturer Airzone has announced its formal UK launch.

UK: Quidos has created a new voluntary scheme for companies to demonstrate that they are going above and beyond the minimum standards set out in the F-gas regulations.

UK: Police arrested two men this week over an alleged investment fraud involving the collapsed Mansfield-based air conditioning specialist Gallant Building Services.

UK: The Thermal Insulation Contractors Association (TICA) has published a new guide for external ductwork insulation and cladding.

UK: Swedish heat pump manufacturer Qvantum has officially introduced its propane-based heat pump solutions to the UK market. 

UK: The UK heat pump sector could learn lessons from the success of solar PV in becoming the most widely adopted microgeneration technology, a new report claims.

UK: Samuel Turato of DW Refrigeration won the Refrigeration and Air Conditioning gold medal in yesterday’s WorldSkills UK finals at Oldham College.

UK: Heat pump manufacturer Ideal Heating and its hot water cylinder manufacturing sister company Gledhill have received almost £5.2m from the UK government.

UK: The UK government has announced a boost for heat pumps with an extra £30m for the Boiler Upgrade Scheme and the relaxing of planning application rules.

UK: Hawco’s former technical application manager, Mervin Chumun, has joined AFR Refrigeration, the London-based refrigeration importer and wholesaler.

UK: As part of the celebrations for its 50th anniversary, fan manufacturer Elta reconnected with its founding directors, inviting them to revisit their roots at the company’s Fareham factory.

UK: Astrid Prado of Star Refrigeration and Samantha Buckell of Bitzer UK have been appointed as co-chairs of the Institute of Refrigeration's Women in RACHP Network (WiRACHP).

UK: Luke Haile, the UK's bronze medal winner in the refrigeration and air conditioning category at WorldSkills in Lyon in September, has had his medal upgraded to silver.

UK: Conservative MP Richard Fuller has called for a review of regulations covering the installation of ground-source heat pumps following a fatal explosion last month in Bedford.

UK: An installation of Mitsubishi Electric Ecodan heat pumps at a historic former airfield development in the south-west has received a visit from the local MP.

UK: Drew Bowie, recently retired after a career spanning 57 years, is this year’s winner of the Kooltech Award for outstanding contribution to the Scottish refrigeration industry.

UK: Transportation services company DFDS has ordered the first 10 Sunswap zero-emission Endurance combined solar and battery-powered refrigerated trailers.

UK: Almost half of UK consumers want to buy low-carbon heating solutions, but 73% fear they don’t know enough to make an informed purchase.

UK: AFR Refrigeration, the London-based refrigeration importer and wholesaler, has been sold to the SHEco Group.