News Archive - April 2005
UN report under fire from greens
25 April 2005
A HIGHLY-INFLUENTIAL UN report which backs HFCs in its bid to halve the global warming contribution of
CFCs and their replacements by 2015 has come under fire from environmental groups.
Barrow architect faces retrial
25 April 2005
THE council architect accused of the manslaughter of seven people in Britain's worst outbreak of Legionnaires' disease in Barrow in 2002 is to face a
retrial, after jurors failed to reach verdicts on seven counts of manslaughter at Preston Crown Court last week.
Climate Center refocuses on acr
25 April 2005
JUST 12 months after reorganising its former NRS and
Controls Center businesses and renaming it Climate
Center, Wolseley UK, has announced further radical
changes in a move to focus on its air conditioning and
refrigeration business.
New Euro energy directive on the horizon
25 April 2005
THE European Parliament's Environment Committee
has come out in favour of a draft directive to increase the energy efficiency of a wide range of electrical
products including air conditioning.
AMP re-signs sales agent
11 April 2005
AMP's sales agent Pacair has followed the
Hertfordshire-based distributor and signed a deal with
Toshiba. Like AMP, Pacair previously had an agency
agreement for Mitsubishi Electric equipment.
Steady ac growth to 2009
11 April 2005
THE UK air conditioning market grew to £662.8m last
year, according to a new report from MBD. This
represented an overall increase of 10% in nominal
terms compared to 2000.
Haier appoints new distributor
11 April 2005
HAIER, the Chinese air conditioning manufacturer, has
appointed Portsmouth-based Hushon as its fourth
distributor in the UK. Hushon joins a network that
includes BSS, Kooltech and NRW. The company also
distributes Hitecsa air conditioning products, Danvent
air handling systems and, until recently, was a
distributor of LG air conditioners.
"Massive opportunity" for hydrocarbons
11 April 2005
BOC has reported increasing demand for hydrocarbon
refrigerants in a number of markets both at home and
abroad.