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USA: Honeywell’s corporate headquarters in Morris Plains, New Jersey, has been awarded LEED Gold certification by the US Green Building Council (USGBC). Then 475,000ft² building,…

USA: More than 100 countries yesterday backed an “early freeze date” on an amendment to the Montreal Protocol to phase down HFC refrigerants. The meeting in…

AUSTRALIA: Phil Wilkinson of the Australian ac and refrigeration institute AIRAH has won an award for contributions to environmental sustainability. The AIRAH ‎executive manager –…

UK: Apprentices at consultants Arup are gaining gaining valuable knowledge of chillers and air handling units through a placement scheme with Daikin Applied. The tie-up…

ITALY: Heat exchanger manufacturer Lu-Ve has acquired the leading Indian coil producer Spirotech. Spirotech Heat Exchangers has its hq and manufacturing facility in Bhiwadi, Rajasthan,…

[caption id="attachment_1729" align="alignright" width="200"] Bryan Glastonbury: heading engineering services[/caption] UK: Bryan Glastonbury, md of Integral UK, has been appointed head of engineering services, EMEA, following…

USA: Environmental group the EIA has called on major global fast food chains to reducing their refrigeration footprint in India. The report, Transitioning HFCs in…

KOREA: LG Electronics is reported to be seeking to have two patents held by German domestic compressor manufacturer Secop overturned. According to the Korea Herald,…

USA: July saw US shipments of central air conditioners increase 8.7% on last year to 551,121 units. US shipments of air-source heat pumps increased 6.6%…

[caption id="attachment_25077" align="alignleft" width="300"] Advertisement[/caption] CHINA: Johnson Controls has received a Science and Technology Award for its York steam-driven centrifugal heat pumps from the Architectural…

FRANCE: Sauermann has a double celebration this month – its 40th anniversary and the installation of its 10 millionth condensate pump. [caption id="attachment_25077" align="alignleft" width="300"]…

UK: A-Gas is to more than double its refrigerant reclamation capacity with a further investment of more than £1m on a new separator at its…

USA: Danfoss has won two awards for products aimed at the food retail industry at the 2017 AHR Expo Innovation Awards. The Danish manufacturer won…

FRANCE: Arkema is planning to shut down its R134a refrigerant plant at Pierre-Bénite, France, at the beginning of next year. Faced with an expected decline…

KENYA: The drive to phase-down HFCs will be a major theme on Friday as UNEP celebrates the 2016 International Day for the Preservation of the…

USA: Emerson has taken a minority stake in a company providing cloud-based building automation control, remote monitoring and diagnostics of rooftop units. Transformative Wave, founded…

USA: A newly published ASHRAE data centre energy standard is said to have a flexible performance-based approach that will accommodate future innovations. ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 90.4-2016,…

BELGIUM: EPEE has welcomed the European Parliament’s report on Heating and Cooling, in particular its focus on energy efficiency. The European Parliament Plenary approved the…

UK/FRANCE: In the largest HFO chiller installation of its kind in the world, Trane CenTraVac’s using R1233zd(E) will replace the existing R22 chillers serving the…

JAPAN: Daikin’s recently opened Technology and Innovation Centre is the first large-scale office building in Japan to win LEED Platinum certification. The new six-storey, 58,000m²…

USA: The first US installations of ammonia/CO2 cascade refrigeration systems has enabled two supermarkets to win US EPA “Best of the Best” GreenChill awards. The…

USA: Atlanta-based HVAC manufacturer Rheem is to begin selling badged versions of Fujitsu split air conditioners in the USA. The strategic collaboration announced today is…

[caption id="attachment_25077" align="alignleft" width="300"] Advertisement[/caption] USA/GERMANY: Refrigerant suppliers Linde and Praxair have terminated merger talks, the companies have announced. Preliminary merger talks, revealed last month,…

BELGIUM: Eurovent is to introduce the first European thermal performance efficiency standard for cooling towers. The scheme has been developed over the past 14 months…

[caption id="attachment_25220" align="alignright" width="350"] Matt McBurney (left) and Scott Miller[/caption] USA: Modine’s Matt McBurney will assume the newly created position of vice president – Luvata…

[caption id="attachment_25209" align="alignright" width="320"] Emerson executives are joined by Georgia Institute of Technology president G P "Bud" Peterson to officially open The Helix Innovation Centre at…

USA: Coil machinery manufacturer Burr Oak Tool has entered into a partnership with Italian tube machine firm Sistemi Meccanici Industriali (SMI). The companies say that the…