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FRANCE: Heat exchanger products, cooling towers and air filters are the HVACR products that have best withstood the Covid-19 crisis, according to a new European…

UK: Market research company BSRIA has revised its global air conditioning sales predictions for 2020 and 2021 as a result of the disruptions caused by…

EUROPE: The effects of Covid-19 are held at least partly responsible for a fall in refrigerant demand and prices in the quarter to September.

ITALY: CCC Holdings Europe, which purchased CO2 refrigeration company Enex and heat exchanger manufacturer Roen Est earlier this year, has received €18m from the Italian Energy Efficiency Fund II (IEEF II).

USA: Cold storage and distribution company Unicold has agreed to pay a $210,564 fine and implement changes to reduce the risk of ammonia accidents at…

USA: New York has announced new regulations to reduce HFC usage by adopting changes to the EPA’s Significant New Alternatives Policy that were overturned by a…

CHINA: Carrier China has officially unveiled a 6000RT capacity water-cooled chiller performance testing lab at its new manufacturing plant in Baoshan Industrial Park, Shanghai.  The…

UK: Two leading players in the data centre cooling market are to go head-to-head live online to debate whether air or immersion cooling represents the future of data centre cooling.

FRANCE: Cryogenic gas supplier Air Liquide has acquired 80% of the capital of the French company Cryoconcept, a specialist in low temperature dilution refrigeration. Founded…

UK: A new report discusses how philanthropic intervention could help reduce emissions from the cold chain, while enhancing food security and poverty reduction. Net zero…

USA: The 2021 AHR Expo, due to take place in January in Chicago, has been postponed until March due to ongoing concerns over the coronavirus.…

BOTSWANA: The Republic of Botswana has joined neighbours South Africa and Namibia by ratifying the Kigali Amendment. This latest ratification brings the total to 104.…

USA: Carrier has sold 9.25 million B shares, valued at around $300m, in the Swedish refrigeration and air conditioning wholesaler Beijer Ref. The price was…

ITALY: Customs officers have seized nearly 4 tonnes of illegal refrigerant, including the banned HCFC R22, at the port of Livorno. The shipment is said…

GERMANY: ISH 2021, the HVAC exhibition scheduled to take place in Frankfurt next March, is the latest event to fall victim to the Covid-19 pandemic.…

USA: Environmental groups have urged the world’s largest retailer Walmart to move faster on the transition to low GWP refrigerants.  Groups including Green America and…

GERMANY: GEA has sold refrigeration compressor manufacturer Bock to German private equity business Nord Holding.

PHILIPPINES: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $1m knowledge and support technical assistance project to deploy smart, energy efficient, and disease resilient centralised…

UAE: Tariq Al Ghussein, CEO of Taqeef, one of the region’s foremost cooling and energy solutions providers, has been named as president of Eurovent Middle…

LIECHTENSTEIN: The Principality of Liechtenstein has become the 103rd country to ratify the Kigali Amendment. Under the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol, countries commit…

BELGIUM: Cryogiam, a Sicilian refrigeration equipment manufacturer, is said to have adopted low GWP A2L refrigerant R455A in preference to CO2 in its new condensing…

HUNGARY: The Hungarian minister of foreign affairs and trade Péter Szijjártó has officially opened the new 65,000m² Güntner-Tata Refrigeration Technology logistics centre in Tata, near…

EUROPE: EPEE, the European Partnership for Energy and the Environment, has applauded the revised greenhouse gas emission reduction target set by new European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen.

KENYA: As the world celebrates World Ozone Day, Inger Anderson, executive director the United Nations Environment Programme, has underlined the importance of the Kigali Amendment…

ITALY: Acquisitions, product diversification and investments in R&D are said to be behind Lu-Ve’s half-year performance, which saw turnover rise by 4.3% to €194.8m. Despite…

CHINA: RACC 2020, the China International Air-Conditioning, Ventilation, Refrigeration and Cold Chain Expo, is set to go ahead in Hangzhou in November as planned.

THAILAND: Kulthorn Kirby has officially commenced production of Bristol Compressors in Thailand following its acquisition of the US manufacturer in 2018 and subsequent transfer of…