World News

Industry news and insights from Europe and around the World

UK News

Latest news and developments in the United Kingdom

Products

Keep up-to-date with the latest new products and technology

Features

General articles, applications and industry analysis

Annette heads GEA freezers

Annette WilleGERMANY: Annette Wille is to look after all of GEA Refrigeration Technologies’ freezer activities worldwide as the new president technology centre freezer. 

The former director of marketing, Annette responsibilities will include product development and manufacture in factories in Canada, France, China, and Brazil and support of its worldwide sales offices.

She directly reports to John Ansbro, chief technology officer of GEA Refrigeration Technologies and succeeds Robert Laflamme, who has left the company.

Annette Wille is bachelor of engineering. She previously worked in engineering design and development for Piller, the specialists in power supply and uninterruptible power systems, and AEG (later Alstom Energietechnik), joining GEA Air Treatment in early 2004.

She was made director of marketing at GEA Refrigeration Technologies in 2010.

Annette Wille’s successor is Tobias Kahmann, who assumes his new position as director of the merged departments marketing and market Intelligence.

Latest News

24th April 2024

Daikin opens Doncaster Sustainable Home Centre

UK: Daikin has opened a new Sustainable Home Centre, its sixth this year, at Doncaster-based plumbing and heating supplier Spinks.
24th April 2024

NIST optimises pulse tube refrigerator

USA: Scientists from the USA’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) claim to have dramatically reduced the time and energy required to chill materials to temperatures near absolute zero.
24th April 2024

Clivet’s Thunder cracks R290 heat pump market

ITALY: Clivet Thunder is a new air-cooled reversible heat pump equipped with inverter scroll compressors specifically designed for use with R290 refrigerant.
23rd April 2024

Modine opens heat pump coil plant

USA/SERBIA: US manufacturer Modine has officially opened a second facility in Sremska, Serbia, to manufacture coils for commercial and residential heat pump applications. 
23rd April 2024

A-Gas expands US reclaim capacity

USA: Refrigerant supply and management company A-Gas has completed the construction of another set of separation towers at its facility in Rhome, Texas. 
23rd April 2024

Beijer Ref Q1 sales up 4%

SWEDEN: Beijer Ref recorded sales of SEK7,680m (€633m) in Q1 of 2024, a 4% increase on last year. EBITA saw a similar percentage increase to SEK733m (€63m).