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3 Jan 2012

Johnson Controls expands refrigeration operations

JOHNSON Controls has joined forces with West-Sussex-based contractor Danston Technical Services in an expansion of its UK Industrial Refrigeration Division.

2 Jan 2012

GEA merges UK refrigeration businesses

GEA has merged its UK refrigeration businesses, GEA Eurotek, GEA Grasso Holdings, GEA Refrigeration Components and GEA Grenco, into one comany.

1 Jan 2012

Lu-Ve buys AIA from Beijer Group

SWEDISH refrigeration and air conditioning wholesaler G & L Beijer has sold AIA, its cooler, condenser and heat exchanger manufacturing business to the Italian Lu-Ve Group. At the same time, G & L Beijer has entered into a global collaboration agreement with Lu-Ve to distribute their products.

1 Jan 2012

Chinese man jailed for selling counterfeit refrigerant

CHINA'S State Intellectual Property Office has confirmed the conviction of a Shanghai man for selling counterfeit refrigerant.

31 Dec 2011

Graham Manly receives OBE

GRAHAM Manly, business development director at Gratte Brothers has been awarded the OBE for services to the Building Services Sector in the New Year Honours list.

30 Dec 2011

GGIFT hits back at MP's call to flatten Ice Factory area

THOSE fighting to save the historic Grimsby Ice Factory and its unique 80-year-old refrigeration equipment have hit back at calls from a local MP for the area to be flattened.

28 Dec 2011

Daikin to build largest factory in China

DAIKIN is to build its largest residential and light commercial air conditioning factory in China. Production at the £120m factory is scheduled to start in April, eventually producing 1.5 million units a year.

23 Dec 2011

New Zealand fines Embraco over price fixing

COMPRESSOR manufacturer Embraco has been served with a £1.48m fine in New Zealand for its part in a compressor cartel with an unnamed competitor.

22 Dec 2011

Heronhill and Nordmann join the ACR Show

Heronhill and Nordmann are amongst the recent new exhibitors to join up to the ACR Show.

20 Dec 2011

Over 100 exhibitors signed up to the ACR Show

MORE than 100 exhibitors have now signed up to the ACR Show including the most recent editions of FSW and Reflok, Rothenburger, Quidos, KR Associates, VRF Services and Refcom.

19 Dec 2011

EU to investigate Honeywell and DuPont over 1234yf

THE European Commission has opened antitrust proceedings concerning agreements between Honeywell and DuPont for the development of the new HFO-1234yf refrigerants.

19 Dec 2011

Two engineers die in separate van explosions

MYSTERY still surrounds the deaths of two refrigeration engineers in Australia following explosions within their vans. The two separate incidents, within days of each other, are being blamed on leaking oxy-acetylene cylinders in their vehicles.

19 Dec 2011

EPA approves three hydrocarbon alternatives

THE US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has added isobutane (R600a), propane (R290) and the R-441A blend (of ethane, propane, butane and isobutane) as acceptable hydrocarbon alternatives in household and small commercial refrigerators and freezers.

12 Dec 2011

GEA Refrigeration Technologies acquires QPM Manufacturing

GEA Refrigeration Technologies has acquired the assets, operations, production facilities, and patents of the companies QPM LLC and QPM Manufacturing LLC, provider of specialist conveyor-belt solutions from Bellevue in Washington, USA.

12 Dec 2011

Lower chilled food temperatures could cost retailers £100m

NEW food storage rules being considered by the European Commission could cost retailers at least £100m and have a damaging impact on the environment while making no difference to hygiene standards, says the British Retail Consortium (BRC).

8 Dec 2011

Danfoss hit by huge €90m fine

COMPRESSOR manufacturer Danfoss has been fined a massive €90m by the European Commission for its part in the cartel conspiracy which has already brought fines for some companies in the US, Canada and Brazil. Also fined by the EC were ACC, Embraco and Panasonic in a total fine for the cartel participants of over €161m.

8 Dec 2011

Danfoss "distressed" at cartel involvement

THE president and CEO of Danfoss, Niels B Christiansen, has expressed his distress at his company's involvement in the international refrigeration compressor price-fixing cartel which led to a huge Euro90m fine from the European Commission on Wednesday.

8 Dec 2011

Happy birthday psychrometrics!

THE formula which underpins the relationship between temperature, humidity and dew point - the basis of all air conditioning calculations - marks its 100th anniversary today.

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