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Honeywell's LT refrigerant receives ASHRAE designation 30-Aug-2010
HONEYWELL'S R22 replacement for commercial supermarket refrigeration, Genetron Performax LT, has received the official ASHRAE designation of R407F. |
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Tecumseh agrees to pay $7m in US class action 30-Aug-2010
TECUMSEH has agreed to to pay $7m and up to $250,000 in costs as settlement in the US class action launched against a number of refrigeration compressor manufacturers allegedly involved in a price fixing conspiracy. |
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Parker buys Carrier's refrigeration controls subsidiary 25-Aug-2010
PARKER Hannifin has acquired the Carrier-owned Canadian supermarket refrigeration controls manufacturer Micro Thermo Technologies. |
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ACR News Awards – entries invited 24-Aug-2010
ENTRIES are now invited for the air conditioning and refrigeration industry's premier awards event - the ACR News Awards. |
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Bob Arthur is new BRA chairman 23-Aug-2010
BOB Arthur of Marks and Spencer is the new president of the British Refrigeration Association. He takes over from Eddie Gittoes of Arctic Circle. |
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Carrier and Daikin report summer successes 23-Aug-2010
THE world's top two air conditioning companies continue to battle it out for the number 1 spot with both reporting recent successes. |
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Mitsubishi extends heat pump recall to Europe 20-Aug-2010
MITSUBISHI Electric divisions in France and Germany have joined the UK in issuing a recall of its Ecodan heat pumps after a faulty receiver unit burst its weld and caused considerable damage to a unit in Chard, Somerset, last month. |
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Chillventa 2010 larger than 2008 17-Aug-2010
CHILLVENTA 2010, the international trade fair for refrigeration, air conditioning, ventilation and heat pumps will be bigger than the 2008 event, according to the organisers. |
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Mitsubishi to supply all-new Ecodans 17-Aug-2010
MITSUBISHI Electric UK is to replace all Ecodan heat pumps affected by its recently announced product recall with new models. |
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Heat pumps are a theme at HEVAR 12-Aug-2010
THE Heat Pump Association is to chair a special free seminar session at the London HEVAR exhibition next month. |
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A Star CO2 heat pump is born 10-Aug-2010
STAR Refrigeration has launched a CO2 heat pump for commercial applications that generates hot and chilled water simultaneously. |
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Advisory board to oversee F-gas best practice 9-Aug-2010
REFCOM has appointed an advisory committee of leading industry figures to oversee the activity of F-gas certification and best practice in handling refrigerants, Refcom has established an advisory committee comprising of leading industry figures to supervise both its mandatory and voluntary F-gas certification schemes. |
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Refrigeration turnover up 25% at Capital Cooling 6-Aug-2010
EDINBURGH-based commercial refrigeration specialist Capital Cooling has announced a 25% increase in turnover for the first six months of 2010. The company's January-June 2010 figures show a total turnover of £9m, up from £7.2m in 2009. |
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Methyl chloride makes an illegal comeback in Korea 6-Aug-2010
METHYL chloride, the toxic and flammable chemical once used as a refrigerant until superseded by fluorocarbons in 1929, has made a reappearance in car air conditioning systems in Korea. |
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Rivacold acquires transport refrigeration company 4-Aug-2010
RIVACOLD has acquired Frigiline, the Italian transport refrigeration systems manufacturer. |
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Check your refrigerant, NZ government tells coldstore owners 2-Aug-2010
THE New Zealand Department of Labour has recommended that coldstore owners and operators immediately determine what refrigerant their refrigeration systems are charged with after an engineer suffered burns while carrying out maintenance on an R22 coolstore evaporator that actually contained hydrocarbon refrigerant. |
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Carphone Warehouse founder joins fight to save the Ice Factory 2-Aug-2010
BUSINESS tycoon David Ross, current chairman of marine safety specialist Cosalt and co-founder of Carphone Warehouse has vowed to help save Grimsby's Ice Factory. |
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Companies fined £195,000 for air conditioning engineer's death 2-Aug-2010
AN ARCHITECT'S practice and a construction company have been fined a total of £195,000 following the death of an air-conditioning engineer in 2005. |
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Mitsubishi issues Ecodan recall after "explosion" 27-Jul-2010
MITSUBISHI Electric UK has taken the unprecedented step of issuing a product safety recall after a component failure in one of its Ecodan air source heat pumps. The announcement follows what was described by local press reports as an "explosion" in one of its heat pumps at a house in Chard, Somerset, on July 9. |
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The ACR News Awards are coming to London 27-Jul-2010
THE highly successful ACR News Awards are coming to London. The 2011 event will now take place on Thursday March 31 at Stamford Bridge, home of Chelsea FC. In a further change to tradition, the event will now take place at lunchtime. |
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ACRIB calls for greater F-gas enforcement 27-Jul-2010
ACRIB has called for greater policing and enforcement of the F-gas regulations. As the EU review of the effectiveness of the F-gas regulations across Europe continues, ACRIB's own survey in the UK found that the single most significant barrier to effectiveness of the Regulation is the lack of visible enforcement, policing and mechanisms to guarantee compliance or report non-compliance. |
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Green backing for 1234yf 26-Jul-2010
THE announcement by giant US car firm General Motors that it is to use the new refrigerant HFO1234yf in all its new cars has been welcomed by green group the Environmental Investigation Agency. |
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BSI puts appliances to the test
Following its acquisition of a leading gas certification body early in 2010, BSI, the UKs premier standards body, is now operating an Appliance Laboratory that offers a comprehensive range of testing and certification services covering all types of gas, electric, oil and solid fuel appliances for domestic and commercial use.
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