World News

USA: ASHRAE and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) have renewed their longstanding memorandum of understanding to advance sustainable refrigeration and air conditioning.

SPAIN: Investigations are centred on local cooling towers following a legionnaires’ disease outbreak which has infected 31 people in the Pamplona/Iruña region.

BELGIUM: Solstice has announced the launch of its R1234yf vehicle air conditioning system retrofit kit, enabling the conversion of existing R134a vehicle systems to the low GWP alternative.

USA/CANADA: Daikin Comfort Technologies has issued a further recall of certain models in its Amana range of window and through-the-wall air conditioners due to risk of serious injury from fire.

ITALY: Heat exchanger product manufacturer Lu-Ve has reported a turnover of €325.1m in the first half of the year, an increase of 10.3% on the same period in 2025.

DENMARK: Haier HVAC Solutions is partnering with Solar Danmark A/S to bring its latest R290 air-to-water heat pump portfolio to installers in Denmark.

GERMANY: Faced with rising refrigerant costs and decreasing availability, Europe’s largest automobile association has warned its German members against purchasing cheap vehicle AC refill kits based on butane or propane.

BELGIUM: Eurovent has launched an online tool designed to help legislators, shop owners, and building professionals assess the effectiveness of air curtains.

SOUTH KOREA: The National Fire Agency, Korea's central fire administrative agency, has blamed a series of recent air conditioner fires on illegal mixed refrigerants containing dangerous R40 (methyl chloride).

GERMANY/JAPAN: Researchers in Germany and Japan have developed a new approach to solid-state cooling that uses heat instead of electricity.

BELGIUM: The European Heat Pump Association (EHPA) is inviting companies across Europe to embrace and become involved with Heat Pump Day on 21 October.

AUSTRIA: Cooling equipment and refrigeration technology specialist Hauser is investing around €2.7m at its new site in Linz to support further growth and expand its capacity.

USA/GERMANY: Heat exchanger product manufacturer Kelvion is set to be acquired by global energy technology company SLB for approximately $3.4bn, who will assume approximately $0.7bn of debt.

USA: Building owners in New York City must now certify that their cooling towers have been inspected, tested, cleaned, and disinfected in compliance with new legislation.

GERMANY: The German subsidiary of Italian chiller manufacturer MTA and the German branch of chiller hire company ICS Cool Energy are combining under the name MTA Deutschland GmbH.

USA: Solstice has announced that it is to terminate by mutual agreement its proposed $14.5bn acquisition of specialty chemical manufacturer and supplier Element Solutions.

IRELAND: Trane Technologies has appointed Adam Wittwer as president, commercial HVAC Europe, reporting to group president, EMEA and Asia, Jose La Loggia.

USA/GERMANY: Sandro Matic, president of Copeland’s European business, is to become president of its Americas business. He will be replaced by Gwenaelle Cheramy, currently general manager of Honeywell in Switzerland.

USA: To meet demand for data centre cooling, the German-owned Wieland Group is to invest $15m in a second heat exchanger production facility in Delaware, Ohio.

SWEDEN/LITHUANIA: Beijer Ref has signed an agreement to acquire 90% of the shares in Lithuanian refrigeration equipment manufacturer Refra.

SPAIN: A research group at Madrid’s Institute of Micro and Nanotechnology (IMN-CNM, CSIC) has developed a new nanomaterial capable of cooling surfaces under solar radiation without consuming electricity.

DENMARK: Danfoss Climate Solutions, the Danish manufacturer’s heating and cooling business segment, has reported half-year organic sales up 18% to €1,803m. 

AUSTRIA: Haier HVAC Solutions Europe has appointed Frigentis GmbH as an official distributor in Austria.

SOUTH KOREA: Samsung Electronics is to establish a FläktGroup HVAC production line in Korea to target the rapidly growing HVAC market, including the production of advanced cooling solutions for AI data centres.

ETHIOPIA: Twelve projects in Africa are to receive more than US$22.3m in funding to accelerate the continent’s transition toward sustainable cooling, energy efficiency, climate action and ozone layer protection. 

SOUTH KOREA: A Korean research team has developed a chemical adsorption heat pump system powered by low-temperature waste heat.

BENELUX: Carrier has completed the acquisition of Intercool, the authorised distributor of Toshiba HVAC products in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg.