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[caption id="attachment_7861" align="alignright" width="250"] Michael Bauer[/caption] GERMANY: Former Bitzer sales and marketing man Michael Bauer has taken over as chairman of the board of Trox…

[caption id="attachment_7858" align="alignright" width="400"] The Kobe International Conference Center will be the focus of refrigerant activity in November[/caption] JAPAN: Low GWP, mildly flammable A2L refrigerants…

DENMARK: Air conditioning and refrigeration coil manufacturer TT Coil A/S has opened a sales office in Sweden. The Danish company, part of the Swedish Beijer…

[caption id="attachment_7772" align="alignright" width="400"] The new board (l to r): Felix Flohr, Wolfgang Bock, Monika Witt, Roland Handschuh[/caption] GERMANY: The Forschungsrat Kältetechnik, Germany’s influential Research…

GERMANY: The organiser of the forthcoming Chillventa exhibition has revealed details of a number of special presentations at this year’s event. Special presentation areas have…

INDIA: An engineer is reported to have died following an air conditioner explosion in Chennai. The

USA: Goodman has issued a recall on over 230,000 air conditioning units over concerns of a possible fault with its power cord. The recall involves…

[caption id="attachment_7024" align="alignright" width="453"] The CIAT factory in Culoz, France[/caption] FRANCE: A grandson of the founder of French air conditioning manufacturer CIAT is reported to…

SINGAPORE: Japanese air conditioning manufacturer Hitachi has been working with a leading Singapore research agency to develop CHP control systems. Hitachi has been working with Singapore…

GERMANY: Plug-in retail refrigerators and freezers can offer a more energy efficient option than distributed systems, says a new report, but the power consumption of cabinets…

PAKISTAN: Reports say that at least a dozen people were taken ill after they inhaled ammonia gas that leaked at an ice factory in Green…

UK: Refrigerant manufacturer Mexichem is helping to make the world a safer place by assisting in the destruction of Syria’s chemical weapons. The company’s refrigerant production…

[caption id="attachment_7682" align="alignright" width="400"] Photo: NASA[/caption] USA: Large quantities of a banned compound once used in the production of CFCs refrigerants has been observed in…

GERMANY: Following the sale of its heat exchanger division, GEA is to introduce a centralised company structure with the potential loss of around 1,000 jobs. …

[caption id="attachment_7670" align="alignright" width="400"] A magneto-optical trap is used to provide the laser cooling (photo by Michael Helfenbein)[/caption] USA: Physicists at Yale University claim to…

SWEDEN: Europe’s biggest refrigeration wholesaler, Beijer Ref, is to acquire all shares in Børresen Cooltech A/S, a leading Norwegian refrigeration wholesaler.  Børresen Cooltech, was founded…

EUROPE: The industry has again been warned that hundreds of thousands of air conditioning and refrigeration systems in Europe will become unserviceable at the end…

USA: The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is to continue to work with the Global Cold Chain Alliance to improve ammonia refrigeration system safety.  With the…

USA: Samsung Electronics America has agreed to acquire its US distributor Quietside Corporation. Based in California, Quietside has been the master distributor for Samsung hvac…

SWEDEN: Electrolux has confirmed its interest in US company GE’s appliances business. Although admitting to be in discussion, the Swedish appliance manufacturer said in a…

USA: Air conditioning firms have rallied around to replace air conditioning units vandalised by copper thieves at an Arizona school. Two weeks ago before the…

USA: Compressor manufacturer Emerson Climate Technologies has sympathised with the retail refrigeration industry over US EPA proposals to ban a number of commonly-used refrigerants by…

USA: Foodservice equipment manufacturers have been the first to react to the US EPA’s proposal to phase-out high GWP refrigerants by 2016, calling it “unrealistic, if not…

DUBAI: The Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) is encouraging customers to set their air conditioning thermostats to 24°C in an effort to reduce electricity…

GHANA: Once the major dumping-ground for used fridges, Ghana’s Energy Commission is to deploy a taskforce to seize all secondhand fridges on the market. Although,…

AUSTRALIA: It is believed that a cold room explosion at a shopping mall in New South Wales, on Saturday, was caused by a leaking LPG cylinder.…

LATVIA: Europe’s largest refrigeration and air con wholesaler Beijer Ref is making inroads into the Latvian market through its Latvian subsidiary Max Cool SIA. Of…