World News

ITALY/DUBAI: Mitsubishi Electric Hydronics & IT Cooling Systems (MEHITS) has established a subsidiary company, MEHITS Middle East FZCO, in the Dubai Airport Freezone.

CHINA: The long-term contract price for R32 from China is set to rise nearly 20%, according to Chinese commodity experts.

FRANCE: An explosion and fire at a facility of telecom company Orange in Paris has been linked to work being carried out on an air conditioning unit.

SWEDEN/JAPAN: A scientist responsible for the development of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), a porous material which could be used in the reclamation of refrigerants, has won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry.

FRANCE: Eurovent Certification has launched a performance-based certification scheme for air conditioners, chillers, VRF systems, rooftop units and IT cooling equipment in harsh desert climates.

BELGIUM: EPEE has warned that the continued deployment of heat pumps faces serious barriers, due to electricity-to-gas price ratios, insufficient grid investment, and a lack of coherence across legislative frameworks.

BELGIUM: Trane has introduced digitally-enabled service agreements to provide remote diagnostics of performance data, early fault detection, targeted maintenance, and more efficient heating and cooling operations.

GERMANY: Viessmann is to supply 19 heat pumps to the German football champions Bayern Munich, in a move to cut its stadium's CO₂ heating emissions…

USA: Bosch has become the latest manufacturer to pass the US Department of Energy’s HVAC technology challenge with its York heat pump rooftop unit.

IRELAND: Johnson Controls has announced what it describes as a multi-million dollar strategic investment in Accelsius, a leader in two-phase, direct-to-chip liquid cooling technology for data centres.

SWEDEN: AHU manufacturer IV Produkt has completed a major expansion of its headquarters in Växjö, Sweden, with the addition of over 5,000m² of new production facilities.

USA: Honeywell’s planned spin-off of its Solstice Advanced Materials business is expected to be completed on October 30, according to latest news from the company.

JAPAN: Following its purchase by Paloma Rheem Holdings, the name of the Fujitsu General air conditioning business will change to General Inc from January 1.

USA: Carrier has named its BluEdge global service centres as Carrier Customer Command Centres.

USA: Florida-based Blue Frontier, a developer of air conditioners using liquid desiccant technology, has joined Amazon’s Sustainability Accelerator programme to accelerate the development of climate breakthrough technologies.

ITALY: CCC Holdings Europe, holding company of HVACR equipment manufacturer Enex Technologies, has reinforced its capital structure with a non-convertible €25m PIK bond.

DENMARK/ITALY: Danfoss has acquired Palladio, the Italian manufacturer of high-efficiency screw compressors.

DENMARK: A new report from the European Environment Agency predicts that, in future, southern European member states could be consuming 71% of total annual energy for residential cooling.

SWEDEN/NETHERLANDS: The Nordic Climate Group continues its expansion in the Netherlands with the acquisition of Breda-based contractor Huijbregts Koeltechniek.

THAILAND: Chinese air conditioning manufacturer Haier has officially opened its new US$400m factory in Chonburi, Thailand.

GERMANY: Chemical company BASF has broken ground on a new formic acid plant in Ludwigshafen that will use one of the largest industrial heat pumps…

BELGIUM/CZECH REPUBLIC: A new guide has been published to address common questions on the interpretation of Ecodesign requirements for fans as set out in EU regulation 2024/1834.

JAPAN: Daikin is looking to produce air conditioner heat exchangers made from recycled aluminium after perfecting horizontal recycling technology.

GERMANY: Bluu Unit, a group of refrigeration, air conditioning and ventilation firms, has signed an agreement to acquire Düsseldorf-based contractor KKL Holding GmbH.

GERMANY/POLAND: German manufacturer Bosch has announced the suspension of its €280m investment in a new heat pump factory in Poland.

ITALY: A group with a turnover of nearly €80m has been formed following the acquisition of Padua-based refrigeration equipment manufacturer Criocabin and Brianza-based refrigerated display case manufacturer CierreEsse.

USA: A second fatality has been reported in the legionnaires’ disease outbreak in Marshalltown, Iowa.