World News

FRANCE: The International Institute of Refrigeration (IIR) has issued a call for abstracts of papers to be presented at next year’s 14th IIR-Gustav Lorentzen Conference…

SINGAPORE: Minimum energy efficiency requirements for industrial water-cooled chilled water systems are being introduced by Singapore’s National Environment Agency (NEA) from 1 December 2020.  Under…

GERMANY: The three millionth product to be manufactured by Bitzer’s reciprocating compressor and condensing unit plant in Schkeuditz has been delivered to Vötschtechnik, a German supplier of environmental test chambers.

SAUDI ARABIA: GCC investments in HVACR systems over the next decade will exceed $68bn, with Saudi Arabia accounting for over 50% of the total. The…

DENMARK: Danfoss communications director Kenth Kærhøg has died after a long battle with cancer. He was 52.  Kærhøg joined Danfoss in 2017 from ISS A/S,…

SPAIN: Researchers have identified a number of refrigerant mixtures which could provide a more efficient alternative to pure hydrocarbons in small refrigeration systems. Isobutane (R600a)…

USA: The organiser of the upcoming refrigeration and air conditioning exhibition, AHR Expo in Orlando, has donated $26,300 to the Central Florida Police Athletic League…

USA: Support for US efforts to establish a national framework for the phase down of HFC refrigerants has grown with 32 US senators now on…

USA: Johnson Controls has broken ground on an expansion of its air handling unit manufacturing facility in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. The 22,000ft² expansion is predicted to…

FINLAND: Commercial refrigeration equipment manufacturer Porkka has been acquired by its Finnish competitor Festivo Finland Oy. The purchase from Porkka’a owners, the Huurre Group, will…

USA: Carrier has won its fifth major award for its AquaEdge 19DV water-cooled centrifugal chiller using the low GWP refrigerant R1233zd. First launched in Asia in 2016,…

USA: Completing this week’s promised double purchase, US contractor group CoolSys has acquired BRR Refrigeration, a commercial refrigeration and HVAC services company based in Virginia…

FRANCE: 2019 was a spectacular year for sales of fan coil units, rooftops, chillers and AHUs in Europe, according to Eurovent Market Intelligence.  According to…

CHINA: Reported to be the source of a rise in emissions of banned CFC11, a crackdown by Chinese authorities is said to have located only…

ROMANIA: German heat exchanger manufacturer Güntner has incorporated a “botanical garden” in to its new 30,000m² “megafactory” in the Transylvanian city of Sibiu. The new…

USA: Daikin is to distribute Honeywell’s lower GWP alternative refrigerant Solstice N40 (R448A) in Japan. The agreement with Daikin Industries’ Chemicals Division is designed to…

EUROPE: Chemours has announced it will cease the supply of high-GWP refrigerants R404A and R507A in the European Union as of January 1, 2020. The…

USA: CoolSys, the US group of refrigeration and HVAC companies, has acquired Tech Mechanical, a provider of commercial HVAC and refrigeration services serving Southeast Michigan. …

USA: Scientists in the US claim to have developed a less expensive, more environmentally friendly method of producing ammonia. Widely used in the production of…

BULGARIA: Customs officers have seized 60 cylinders of refrigerant found in a van at the Malko Tarnovo customs office in southeastern Bulgaria, on the border…

USA: The Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is to collaborate with five US companies in an effort to improve the energy performance of HVAC systems…

GERMANY: HKT has announced that it will cease production of its Goeldner refrigeration compressors at the end of this year.  A specialist manufacturer of open…

JAPAN: Responding to increasing demands for large-capacity CO2 condensing units in food refrigeration applications, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Thermal Systems is to introduce a 40hp condensing…

UK: With annual cooling equipment sales estimated to reach 460 million units by 2030 – up 37% on 2018 – a new report calls for…

BELGIUM: EPEE has welcomed the European Green Deal, announced today by the European Commission, as an opportunity to promote sustainable cooling as an enabler to carbon neutrality.

USA: John Faraci, a United Technologies director since 2005, will serve as executive chairman of air conditioning and refrigeration equipment manufacturer Carrier following the company’s…

IRELAND: Trane Technologies is the new name for Ingersoll-Rand’s Trane and Thermo King air conditioning, refrigeration and heating businesses following the spin off of its…