ACR-News
Know what you want? Try our 'Supplier Directory' 

Latest News

 14 Jul 2023

New BESA President Curran embraces digital age

Claire Curran, managing director of building services specialists Linaker, has been elected President of the Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) for 2023/24.... 
 12 Jul 2023

Diane Drummond elected chair of BESA Scotland

Members of the Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) Scotland have elected Diane Drummond, managing director of B-DACS Air Conditioning, to be their chair for 2023/24.... 
 11 Jul 2023

Refrigerant driving licence ‘will save many lives’

The Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) has welcomed the long-awaited launch of the United Nations Refrigerant Driving Licence (RDL) scheme to help improve worldwide safety standards in the air conditioning and refrigeration industries.... 
Shane Brennan.
 11 Jul 2023

Cold Chain Federation starts search for new CEO

The Cold Chain Federation's board of directors has begun the search for the next chief executive of the temperature-controlled storage and distribution federation, to succeed Shane Brennan, who is to step down after five years in the role. Brennan ... 
 11 Jul 2023

Mitsubishi Electric celebrates 30th anniversary of Livingston factory

Mitsubishi Electric has marked the 30th anniversary of its factory in Livingston, Scotland, an advanced facility for the manufacture of heat pumps as the nation looks to reach net zero.... 
 11 Jul 2023

Star Refrigeration sponsors Cold Chain Federation’s online event

Star Refrigeration is sponsoring this year’s Cold Chain Refrigeration Week 2023, an online conference taking place from 18–21 July, organised by the Cold Chain Federation. The event is specifically tailored to provide guidance on natural ... 
 10 Jul 2023

Focus on retrofit to get net zero back on track, says BESA

The government should accelerate plans to retrofit buildings to get faltering net zero progress back on target, according to the Building Engineering Services Association (BESA).... 
 28 Jun 2023

IOR celebrates successful World Refrigeration Day with #nextgencooling events

The IOR celebrated World Refrigeration Day on 26 June bringing together a series of different events under the theme of #nextgencooling. The first event of the day – a technical Cool Talk on cleaning condensers saw an impressive turnout of over 160 ... 
 27 Jun 2023

Kilfrost celebrates 90 years in business

For the past 90 years Kilfrost has been involved in safety critical advances to get aircraft airborne safely in icing conditions whilst safeguarding the passengers and crew.... 
 26 Jun 2023

TEV acquires EPCS assets to form new refrigeration line

TEV Ltd has acquired the assets of former refrigeration equipment manufacturer EPCS to form a new product line - 'SC-Tec'.... 
 26 Jun 2023

World Refrigeration Day 2023: adversity has increased resilience of UK cold chain

To mark World Refrigeration Day 2023 on 26th June, the Cold Chain Federation (CCF) has revealed new survey results showing that 74% of UK cold chain operators consider that the cold chain has emerged from supply chain challenges such as Covid-19 ... 
 26 Jun 2023

BESA calls for rapid transformation in cooling skills

The Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) has urged the industry to mark this year’s World Refrigeration Day (WRD) by stepping up its efforts to recruit and train a new generation of air conditioning and refrigeration engineers able to ... 
 21 Jun 2023

Hampshire Refrigeration Society seeks achievement award nominations

The Hampshire Refrigeration Society is seeking nominations for the HRS Achievement Award. Nominations should be from an individual within your organisation who has shown exceptional skills, support, vision and furthering the advancement of the ... 
 21 Jun 2023

Global and UK expert speakers announced for Cold Chain Live! 2023

The Cold Chain Federation has announced the speakers who will take to the stage at the industry’s definitive conference Cold Chain Live! 2023, at ACC Liverpool on 14-15th September.... 
 21 Jun 2023

Incoming CIBSE president calls for engineering leadership

"We have never before needed more engineers, more urgently, to provide creative solutions to the challenges we face,” said Adrian Catchpole, incoming president of CIBSE in his Presidential address, outlining the challenges presented by climate ... 
 21 Jun 2023

Samsung expands to match business growth

Samsung Climate Solutions has recently unveiled its new warehouse to match the increase in size of the business. The warehouse is run by XPO logistics in Leicester and spans approximately 150,000ft of which Samsung Climate Solutions currently occupy ... 
 18 Jun 2023

BESA launches sixth annual conference

The Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) has announced that its sixth Annual Conference will take place on Thursday, October 12 at the Novotel London West.... 
 18 Jun 2023

Pinder Cooling addresses skills shortage with new training programme

Pinder Cooling & Heating is introducing new modular training for its Bradford-based HVAC engineers that aims to fill in gaps in the current industry-wide training provision and has already reduced client recalls by 50%.... 
Older news articles

archive View Older News items by Year/Month
ACR News is the number one magazine in the air conditioning and refrigeration industry. Don’t miss out, subscribe today!
Subcribe to ACR News

Diary

BESA National Conference