News Archive - March 2006
Daikin packs convenient punch
23 March 2006
DAIKIN, the UK's leading air conditioning manufacturer has entered the refrigeration market with Conveni-pack, a combined air conditioning and refrigeration system for forecourts and convenience stores.
Denco has a Ball at new factory opening
23 March 2006
TV personality and engineering enthusiast Johnny Ball has officially opened Denco's new headquarters in Hereford.
Clivet finds new avenues for heat pump sales
23 March 2006
CLIVET heat pumps are being used in an innovative research project into the potential of using these highly efficient heat sources to keep roads free of ice as well as, on warmer days, to use the road surface as a heat store/collector
Training brings new life to former factory
08 March 2006
TOSHIBA'S former UK air conditioning factory in Plymouth, which ceased manufacturing in June last year, has become the centre for the company's first hands-on customer training facility outside of Japan.
Still No 1 and now Poles apart
08 March 2006
WITH LG retaining its position as the world's leading residential air conditioning producer for the sixth consecutive year, the Korean manufacturer, has announced plans to further boost production with a new factory in Poland.
Ted Berry leaves Haier
08 March 2006
TED Berry, md of Haier UK, the UK air conditioning arm of the Chinese white goods manufacturer, has left the company. General manager Norman Murphy is reported to be currently in charge of the day-to-day running of the business.
Linde finally bags BOC for £8.2bn
08 March 2006
GERMAN industrial group Linde has finally been successful with an £8.2bn bid for UK gas firm BOC. This latest offer follows last month's £7.6bn bid which was rejected by BOC.