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[caption id="attachment_10165" align="alignright" width="245"] Helmut Meyer, Bitzer’s chief sales and marketing officer[/caption] GERMANY: Helmut Meyer, managing director of Bitzer’s Finnish subsidiary Lumikko Technologies has been…

TAIWAN: Center Technology has warned customers of Chinese counterfeits of its popular Center 382 refrigerant leak detector. According to the manufacturer the Chinese fakes have…

IRELAND: Ingersoll Rand, parent company of Thermo King, is set to acquire Germany’s largest refrigerated transport company Frigoblock for €100m. Frigoblock manufactures and designs transport…

USA: The AHRI has announced new certification programmes for air-handling unit casings and plate heat exchangers. The voluntary AHRI (Air-Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Institute) Product…

JAPAN: Daikin and Panasonic are two companies expected to participate in future energy-saving projects in Latin America. The two Japanese manufacturers are identified by the…

[caption id="attachment_7023" align="alignright" width="400"] The CIAT factory in Culoz, France[/caption] EUROPE: The purchase of French air conditioning manufacturer CIAT by Carriers’ parent company UTC looks…

BELGIUM: AREA has placed the promotion of "non-obstructive" standards and the establishment of low GWP refrigerant training at the top of its list of priorities…

UK: Anti-corrosion coating specialist Blygold has reached its landmark millionth coil treatment with an installation at the Sellafield nuclear facility in Cumbria, UK. The millionth…

PAKISTAN: Over 4,000 air conditioners and electronic goods worth around €2.9m have been confiscated by Pakistan revenue authorities. According to the Dawn website, Pakistan’s Federal…

[caption id="attachment_10038" align="alignright" width="400"] John Galyen (3rd from left), president, Danfoss North America presents the EnVisioneer award to Mike Schwartz, CEO, Daikin Applied Americas. On…

[caption id="attachment_8247" align="alignright" width="400"] The Johnson Controls Building Efficiency headquarters in Milwaukee[/caption] USA: Johnson Controls is expecting its joint venture with Hitachi and the divestiture…

[caption id="attachment_8178" align="alignright" width="400"] The Vacon factory and hq in Vaasa, Finland[/caption] FINLAND: Danfoss has now acquired more than 90% of the shares in Finnish…

CHINA: Danfoss has stepped up its anti-counterfeit activities after a survey last year found that as many as 7% of Maneurop brand compressors in China…

SOUTH KOREA: Two new refrigerants described as “virtually non-flammable” are being touted as potential alternatives to R134a in mobile air conditioning systems. The new blends,…

[caption id="attachment_9948" align="alignright" width="350"] Doctoral candidate Linxiao Zhu, Professor Shanhui Fan and research associate Aaswath Raman are members of the team that invented the breakthrough…

SOUTH KOREA: LG Electronics is to merge its Home Appliance and Air Conditioning & Energy Solution business units. LG says the the merger of the…

GERMANY: Compressor manufacturer Bitzer has produced a useful guide to the new F-gas regulation 517/2014. The publication, available as a downloadable PDF, is available in…

USA: Construction has begun on a new 50,000ft² regional distribution centre for Carrier in Nashville, Tennessee. The new building adjacent to Nashville International Airport is…

NORWAY: Aluminium company Sapa has produced a manual on the use of aluminium in the manufacture of heat exchangers. The Oslo-based company says the new 88-page…

FRANCE: Arkema has announced a 20% price increase across all its HFC refrigerants in Europe. A company announcement, today, says the increase is effective immediately…

GERMANY: DuPont is offering a €1500 prize to a high achieving student in the field of fluorine research. Fluorine is one of the key components…

NEW ZEALAND: From January 1 it may be very difficult for anyone not in possession of the correct accreditation to buy refrigerant in New Zealand.…

DUBAI: The poster campaign initiated by UK refrigeration consultant Steve Gill has received an honourable mention in the Climate Control Middle East Awards. The innovative…

FRANCE: Parties to the Montreal Protocol were upbeat at the possibilities of a global HFC phase-down agreement at the conclusion of this week’s meeting in…

USA: The global frozen food market is expected to grow in value by almost 30% by 2020, according to a new report. The new report,…

PORTUGAL: The death toll in the Portuguese legionnaires’ disease outbreak has risen to 10. Portuguese authorities have also confirmed that 336 cases have been identified…

[caption id="attachment_9775" align="alignright" width="400"] The UNESCO hq in Paris – the venue for this weeks Montreal Protocol meetings ©UNESCO/Michel Ravassard[/caption] FRANCE: The international community has…