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 25 Jul 2016

Quorn brings home the ‘bacon’ with help of Cold Store Rentals

Quorn Foods has recently installed a new walk-in dual freezer facility at its site in Norfolk, with the help of Cold Store Rentals, to help save on costs and create 30 percent greater capacity to store its meat free alternative to bacon.Quorn Foods ... 
 25 Jul 2016

Holborn completes Daisy Technical Operations Centre

Holborn Projects, one of the UK’s leading providers of commercial air conditioning services, has completed work on a new Technical Operations Centre for Daisy Group.An independent provider of end-to-end business communications and managed IT ... 
 21 Jul 2016

J Fletcher Engineers begins £1m Spinningfields pipeworks project

Internal works are well underway on Manchester’s most talked-about new developments, No1 Spinningfields and the XYZ Building. This week, Eccles-based engineering group J Fletcher Engineers have started work on a revolutionary new heating and ... 
 21 Jul 2016

Raw fish processor selects Ecostar for UK expansion

A major expansion and upgrade at one of Europe’s largest raw fish preparation and distribution centres is using high efficiency Bitzer Ecostar condensing units at the heart of its refrigeration system.The London facility processes thousands of tons ... 
 21 Jul 2016

SeeWoo commissions bespoke HVACR solution for Chinatown supermarket

The SeeWoo Group is one of the largest suppliers of Oriental foods in the UK with three retail stores, wholesale operations, restaurants and food production factory. SeeWoo’s store located in the heart of London’s Chinatown. Starting as a small ... 
 21 Jul 2016

HFO chiller cools new Centre for Sustainable Chemistry at The University of Nottingham

Cool-Therm has supplied an HFO-based reciprocating chiller to the University of Nottingham, where it is being used to cool its new Centre for Sustainable Chemistry, built by Morgan Sindall and designed to be carbon neutral and have excellent ... 
 21 Jul 2016

CSR keeps champagne chilled at Ascot

Catering supplier, Sodexo, has recently managed the essential upgrade and refurbishment of various cold rooms at Ascot, including those which hold champagne supplies, with the help of Cold Store Rentals. This is vital to ensure the system runs ... 
 21 Jul 2016

Coolsuredoors seals icy draught inside RAF Lakenheath's cold store

Retail refrigerated cabinet doors manufacturer and installer, coolsuredoors, has completed its second contract at RAF Lakenheath's commissary. The latest project, which was commissioned by Fridge Systems, saw coolsuredoors install a total of 15 ... 
 21 Jul 2016

Climate Center and Ryan Air Conditioning Services take the heat out of the kitchen

Recently opened in Bexleyheath, Stuzzichini is a new restaurant on the busy outskirts of London serving authentic Italian food. When the owners initially purchased the building in 2015 they set out to create an ambient environment that would ... 
 11 Jul 2016

eurammon symposium focuses on the use of natural refrigerants in the food and retail industry

On June 23 and 24, 2016 the eurammon symposium took place in Schaffhausen, Switzerland. 
 14 Apr 2016

Transtherm’s adiabatic coolers exempt from latest HSE rules

The Water Management Society, backed by the HSE, has published its latest paper entitled The Control of Legionella in Dry/Wet Cooling Systems, which stipulates that such equipment will need to be registered with the local authority to ensure it is correctly maintained in line with Legionella prevention guidelines - unless a Transtherm system is installed. 
 27 Jan 2016

Office temperatures are a major issue, survey finds

According to a new survey by Andrew Sykes, 61% of women find the office too cold for their liking, while 40% of men would describe the office as chilly. 
 16 Dec 2015

The importance of being prepared

Planning for the worst can seem like a daunting task but understanding how your business will cope in a disaster is incredibly important. 
 24 Nov 2015

DATA CENTRES SPECIAL FEATURE - Strategies for reducing energy use for cooling in data centres

James Cooper from ebm-papst takes a look at precision air conditioning equipment in computer rooms and data centres, with a particular focus on cooling in data centres – how the importance of cooling has developed in recent years, what can be done ... 
 24 Nov 2015

DATA CENTRES SPECIAL FEATURE - Taking the heat out of Data Centre cooling

By Dominic Cutts, director – System Solutions, Armstrong Fluid TechnologyGeneration of heat is an unavoidable outcome of electrical resistance within IT processors and, as IT processors become ever more powerful, the demand for cooling is rising ... 
 23 Nov 2015

DATA CENTRES SPECIAL FEATURE - HPC in Higher Education

While HPC systems form a relatively small part of most organisations’ IT infrastructure, they often demand the most attention. Think of the disruptive children at school who make up about 5% - yet demanding 30% of the resources! As a result HPC ... 
 29 Oct 2015

BSRIA study reveals changing technology for data centre cooling

BSRIA has published a new market study which shows that – with the CISCO Cloud Index forecasting – data centre traffic will grow at 23 per cent CAGR, reaching 8.6 zettabytes by 2018. 
 10 Aug 2015

Keeping cool means keeping safe

Keeping air conditioning on in the car keeps drivers safe, but many are unaware of benefits, according to a survey conducted by Honeywell. 
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