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 1 Dec 2011

Mitsubishi Electric offers recycling scheme with Overton

MITSUBISHI Electric has launched a new recycling programme for its range of air conditioning and photovoltaic modules to help return raw materials back into the supply chain. 
 29 Nov 2011

ACR News Awards deadline is just three weeks away...

ACT now to get your submissions in for the 2012 ACR News Awards by the 3rd January 2012 deadline. 
 29 Nov 2011

No agreement on HFC "phase-down"

WHILE support for the initiative grows, plans to curb the use of HFC refrigerants were again baulked at the latest Montreal Protocol meeting in Bali last week. 
 28 Nov 2011

Systemair buys Airwell's Italian factory

SWEDISH ventilation company Systemair has agreed to acquire the Italian factory operated by French air conditioning company Airwell. 
 24 Nov 2011

Honeywell extends fight against fake refrigerants

HONEYWELL today announced today that it has expanded its ongoing campaign against counterfeit refrigerants being fraudulently sold under the Honeywell Genetron brand name in the Middle East. 
 23 Nov 2011

DuPont issues statement over reefer incidents

REFRIGERANT manufacturer DuPont has issued a statement to customers following the recent reefer explosions and revelations by ACR News that methyl chloride was one of the constituents in the contaminated refrigerant thought to have been responsible. 
 22 Nov 2011

ACR Show confirms Skills Centre programme

THE Skills Centre at the ACR Show 2012 sponsored by HRP, will include Summitskills, City & Guilds and Building Engineering Services Training (BEST) representatives. 
 22 Nov 2011

Supermarket-style Coolstation opens in Somerset

A NEW 'one-stop' shop supermarket-style wholesale operation has opened in the south west. 
 22 Nov 2011

City Refrigeration starts joint ventures in the US

CITY Refrigeration Holdings is opening a US office early next year to manage two new joint ventures. 
 22 Nov 2011

Foster Refrigerator joins the ACR Show

FOSTER Refrigerator, the UK market leader and manufacture of a range of commercial fridges and freezers has joined the growing list of exhibitors for the ACR Show. 
 22 Nov 2011

Brunnock promises new approach for Fujitsu

THE new sales and marketing director at FG Eurofred, Julian Brunnock, has promised changes to the business and a new emphasis on the way the company promotes and sells Fujitsu air conditioning in the UK. 
 21 Nov 2011

HFCs must be curbed to protect climate urges the UN

THE United Nations has urged that HFCs, which are increasing in the atmosphere at a rate of 8% per year, could cancel the climate benefits won by the phase-out of CFCs and other ozone-depleting substances. 
 17 Nov 2011

Panasonic launches heat pump open day

PANASONIC is running a series of Aquarea open days at its PRO Academy Training Centre in Bracknell to help contractors, installers and end-users get to grips with the latest heat pump technology. 
 17 Nov 2011

Have your say on the f-gas regulations

ACRIB is seeking feedback from the industry as part of the f-gas review, to make the most of the UK's experience of the implimentation of the regulations from organising training courses to applying for company certificates. 
 16 Nov 2011

Waitrose trials world-first HFO chiller

THE first chillers using the new HFO refrigerants are being trialled by Waitrose at its supermarket in Bromley, Kent. 
 15 Nov 2011

Fake refrigerants becoming a 'serious problem'

COMPANIES have been warned to only purchase refrigerants from authorised and reputable suppliers as evidence mounts that highly dangerous fake refrigerants are a far greater problem and more widespread than many realise. 
 14 Nov 2011

The EIA urges EU to phase out f-gases by 2020

THE Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) is calling on the European Union to phase out HFC refrigerants by 2020. 
 8 Nov 2011

China threatens climate ransom over HFC-23

CHINA has responded to efforts to ban the trading of HFC-23 offsets by threatening to release huge amounts of the chemical into the atmosphere unless other nations pay what amounts to a climate ransom. 
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