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 4 Oct 2021

Embraco achieves 41% energy savings in food retail

Embraco, a global provider of refrigeration technology for the complete residential and commercial cold chain, and a portfolio brand of Nidec Global Appliance, presented a case study at the last AtmoEurope, online event held on 29 September, in ... 
Bales of hay being dry.
 4 Oct 2021

AquaForce GSHP for thoroughbred project

Two high-efficiency 1.5MW Carrier heat pumps are being used to dry Lucerne hay, a premium feed in demand by UK racehorse breeders and trainers. The ground source heat pump (GSHP) system was installed at a specialist farm near Coventry by OMNI Heat ... 
 29 Sep 2021

Kevin Glass marks 35-years with Bitzer UK

Kevin Glass, managing director of Bitzer UK, is celebrating 35 years with the compressor specialist in a wide-ranging career that has spanned technical, management and, latterly, senior leadership roles.... 
 22 Sep 2021

Carrier enhances comfort and supports art preservation at the Vatican Museums

An air conditioning solution from Carrier is helping to ensure optimal ventilation and comfort in the historic Raphael Rooms at the Vatican Museum. During a typical summer, the temperature in Rome can soar as high as 104°F/40°C, making the decision ... 
 21 Sep 2021

New beer bottling line with high capacity process cooling

? ICS Cool Energy has installed a new process cooling system at one of UK’s leading multinational breweries. The system will deliver 1.2MW of process cooling to the new beer bottling plant line and features ICS Cool Energy Imperium chiller with a ... 
 2 Sep 2021

Starfrost spiral cooling system boosts capacity for UK's largest baker of scones

Starfrost have installed spiral cooling equipment for Haywood and Padgett, enabling the bakery to treble production of its award-winning scones.... 
 2 Sep 2021

Clegg delivers ‘coolest’ project yet for Greggs

A new automated cold store has been built by food and drink construction expert Clegg Food Projects for bakery food on the go chain Greggs.... 
 1 Sep 2021

Vita Talalay relies on ICS Cool Energy

ICS Cool Energy helped Vita Talalay, a manufacturer of quality mattresses, to keep its operations running with a bespoke temporary very low temperature (VLT) process cooling system. During the five weeks of modernisation and replacement works of its ... 
 20 Aug 2021

Körber builds first automated warehouse on the island of Cebu for BBLC

PHILIPPINES: Global supply chain solutions expert increases sustainability for food cold storage warehousing and distribution specialist by making the most out of space in the new cooled facility.... 
Union Industries’ Simon Casewell, Ignes Saknaiti from Uniserve and Dave Bowden from Seafast.
 18 Aug 2021

Largest Eiger door takes its place in Felixstowe mega distribution centre

Union Industries has manufactured its largest ever rapid roll freezer door as part of a multi-door project for a giant distribution centre on the south coast.... 
 17 Aug 2021

Waterloo supports The Spine in Liverpool

The stunning £35m building The Spine in Liverpool’s dynamic Knowledge Quarter (KQ Liverpool) has opened as one of the world’s healthiest buildings, using Waterloo’s industry-leading air distribution products.... 
 16 Aug 2021

UK Nursery invests in CIAT GSHP system

A 1.9MW heating system powered by highly efficient CIAT ground-source heat pumps is providing low-cost, low-carbon renewable heating for Coletta & Tyson, one of Europe’s largest independent nurseries.... 
Mats Sandor and Mark Stevens.
 30 Jul 2021

Trust, transparency and the importance of third-party certification

Mats Sándor, senior technical director of Systemair and president of AMCA, along with Mark Stevens, executive director of AMCA, share their insights on the perils of technical misinformation, the importance of third-party verification, and ... 
 30 Jul 2021

IAQ monitoring needs to measure more than just CO2

CO2 is a widely used indicator of room occupancy and the need to ventilate, which according to Elta Fans has proved useful in encouraging more engagement with improving IAQ. However, as structures become increasingly energy efficient and airtight, ... 
 21 Jul 2021

Secure IT Environments upgrades Principality Building Society data centre

Secure IT Environments, one of the UK’s leading design and build companies for modular, containerised and micro data centres, has completed a UPS room, Air Handling Unit and air conditioning upgrade at Principality Building Society in Cardiff, Wales ... 
 21 Jul 2021

The Great Northern Distillery upgrades cooling system

ICS Cool Energy, an international market leader specialising in complete temperature control solutions for manufacturing process and facilities applications, delivered efficiency and sustainability focused enhancements to the cooling systems at the ... 
 20 Jul 2021

Hygienic freezing system boosts seafood production in Norway

Starfrost has installed a state-of-the-art freezing system for Nordic seafood processor, Båtsfjordbruket, enabling the firm to increase production capacity by 35% while enhancing hygiene processes.... 
 19 Jul 2021

GSHP village format to ‘heat the streets'

A ground-breaking scheme delivering subsidised ground source heat pumps to 500 homes in Cornwall is being described as a blueprint for decarbonising domestic heating.... 
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