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

Budeanu wins EuroSkills Gold for Spain

HUNGARY: Emanuel Budeanu of Spain won the Gold Medal in Refrigeration and Air Conditioning at last week’s EuroSkills 2018 in Budapest.

Budeanu, who studies at the IES Virgen del Pilar in Zaragoza, won the Spanish national championship last year, also receiving the medal of excellence in the WorldSkills 2017 competition in Abu Dhabi.

EuroSkills is the European Championship of young professionals, a promotion of skills and latest skills developments around Europe. The competition is held every two years in one of the WorldSkills Europe member states. There were 28 participating countries this year with 600 competitors participating in 37 skills. The Refrigeration and Air Conditioning category was sponsored by refrigerant supplier Climalife.

Emanuel Budeanu (left) celebrates with Bronze medal winner Francisco Campos

The EuroSkills Silver Medal went to Germany’s Dominik Daferner, a student at Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH in North Rhine-Westphalia. Bronze was won by Francisco Campos of Portugal, a second-year student at CENFIM in Oporto.

Michael Kraml of Austria, who works for Hauser GmbH in Linz, won the Medallion for Excellence.

Latest News

12th November 2026

Mitsubishi’s Little One targets new homes

UK: Mitsubishi Electric is launching a new compact Ecodan R290 air-to-water heat pump designed specifically for Britain’s new houses.
12th November 2026

Gboyega “Femi” Obafemi dies

UK: Former Toshiba Carrier, Hitachi and Johnson Controls MD Gboyega “Femi” Obafemi has died.
12th November 2026

Belgium warns of new Danfoss controller vulnerabilities

EUROPE: Belgium’s national cyber security authority has advised removing direct public internet exposure of Danfoss’ AK-SM800A refrigeration controllers after six new vulnerabilities were identified.
12th November 2026

Modine opens Airedale chiller plant in Texas

USA: Modine has commenced commercial production of Airedale chillers at a new 682,000ft2 (63,360m2) purpose-built manufacturing facility in Grand Prairie, Texas.
11th November 2026

Iran says French claims are baseless and malicious

IRAN: Iran has rejected French accusations that it was behind last month’s cyber attacks on refrigeration systems, describing the claims as “baseless and malicious”.
11th November 2026

IOR extends training outreach programme

UK: The Institute of Refrigeration (IOR) is to extend its education outreach programme, which supports the development of the skills pipeline for the RACHP sector, for a further year.