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Chinese double gold at WorldSkills

FRANCE: Kang Ruan of China and Sz-Yuan Chen of Chinese Taipei took the gold medals in refrigeration and air conditioning at tonight’s WorldSkills. Luke Haile of Great Britain won Bronze.

The three medal winners beat off competition from 21 other competitors from this week’s competition in Lyon to climb the winners’ rostrum at tonight’s awards ceremony at the OL Stadium, home of Olympique Lyonnais football club. 

The WorldSkills Competition, known as the skills Olympics, is the largest international skills competition held every two years in cities around the world.

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16th June 2025

WRD and AREA sign MoU

ITALY: World Refrigeration Day and the European contractors’ group AREA have signed a new memorandum of understanding to promote further co-operation between the two bodies.
16th June 2025

Daikin adds high-temperature heat pump

ITALY: Daikin is to introduce a new high-temperature option for its VZ series of water-to-water heat pumps, capable of supplying hot water at temperatures up to 90°C.
15th June 2025

Hitachi introduces R290 and R32 heat pumps

SPAIN: Hitachi has launched new residential air-to-water heat pumps – an R290 monobloc and R32 split system.
15th June 2025

Fibre membrane could lower data centre cooling costs

USA: Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a new evaporative cooling technology that could improve the energy efficiency of data centres and high-powered electronics.  The idea…
15th June 2025

Armstrong begins work on industrial heat pump plant

BELGIUM: Armstrong International has commenced work on a new high temperature industrial heat pump production facility at its site in Herstal, Belgium.
14th June 2025

Fambri double in REHVA student awards

ITALY: Beniamino Fambri, holder of a laurea magistrale in energy engineering from Italy’s Politecnico di Milano, was a double winner of student awards at this month’s 15th CLIMA World Congress.