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GERMANY: Engineers in Germany have developed a functional brine heat pump using a fully hermetic compressor with a heating capacity of 11.4kW using only 146g of propane.

SINGAPORE: Keppel Corporation has been awarded a contract to design, build, own and operate a new large-scale district cooling system plant in the Jurong Lake District (JLD). 

USA: ASHRAE is encouraging its worldwide chapters and members to speak to the public about how cooling provides climate and food security in support of World Refrigeration Day.

SWEDEN/GERMANY: Wholesaler Beijer Ref has extended its partnership agreement with German compressor manufacturer Bitzer by a further year. 

SWEDEN: Dahl, the Swedish HVAC, refrigeration and building materials supplier, has added Friga-Bohn refrigeration equipment to its portfolio.

SWEDEN: Stockholm-based investment group Vargas has announced its entry into the European heat pump market with Aira, a direct-to-consumer company offering heat pumps on monthly subscription.

CANADA: A-Gas, the UK-based supplier of refrigerants and refrigerant solutions, is to build its first refrigerant recovery and reclamation facility in Canada.

BELGIUM: Daikin has announced a series of webinars for those looking to upgrade or renew their cooling plant for comfort and process applications.

EUROPE: An agreement on the F-gas regulation (517/2014) revision proposals hang in the balance after it was revealed that a third trilogue meeting will be required next month.

BELGIUM: EPEE has warned that delays on the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) are jeopardising Europe’s climate goals.

USA: Heat exchanger product manufacturer Lu-Ve Group has established Lu-Ve US Inc after renaming the Zyklus Heat Transfer Inc business it acquired in 2018. 

FRANCE: Léana Khaled Payan, a refrigeration engineer with Axima Refrigeration in France, has been named as the winner of the first European Women in Cooling Video Competition.

SWEDEN/NETHERLANDS: Nibe has agreed the €640m purchase of the Dutch HVAC systems group Climate for Life (CFL).

SWEDEN/DENMARK: Danfoss is expanding its partnership with Swedish retail energy solutions provider ANEO Retail by bringing its energy as a service offering to Denmark.

ITALY: Heat exchanger product manufacturer Lu-Ve is to expand its facilities in China.

BELGIUM: The Heat Pump Accelerator, the industry’s roadmap of the barriers facing the heat pump sector – and solutions to overcoming them – has been delivered to the European Commission.

SPAIN: Having filed its provisional application to comply with the Kigali Amendment in January 2022, Spain has now registered its acceptance of the treaty to phase down HFC refrigerants.

SWEDEN: Eight people are in court in Gothenburg accused of involvement in the theft of heat pumps and building materials valued at SEK4.5m (€387,000).

EUROPE: An agreement on the revision of the European F-gas regulation (517/2014) will not be achieved this month, as had previously been hoped.

EUROPE: With the European F-gas phase down continuing to bite, considerable price increases have been reported amongst the high GWP refrigerants in the EU.

ITALY: The proposed F-gas phase down has been described as unrealistic and overly optimistic, while starving the industry of HFCs for the rollout of the heat pumps.

USA: Modine has commissioned a new state-of-the-art chiller testing laboratory at its Rockbridge facility in Virginia to meet increasing demand from the data centre industry.

FRANCE: Kim Fausing, president and CEO of Danish manufacturer Danfoss, has warned the world’s energy and climate ministers that net zero will not be achieved without energy efficiency.

JAPAN: The optimised exhaust port structure developed by Toshiba Carrier for use in its multi-cylinder rotary piston heat pump compressors has been recognised at Japan's…

DENMARK: Danfoss is reported to be expanding its heat exchanger production capacity in response to heat pumps, chillers and district energy.

GERMANY: Efficient Energy GmbH, the German manufacturer of chillers using water as the refrigerant, has filed for insolvency after a search for a new investor failed.

BELGIUM: Victor Gomara, R&D director of Spanish commercial refrigeration equipment manufacturer Koxka has been elected as the new vice-chairperson of Eurovent’s commercial refrigeration equipment product group.