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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.

7 Nov 2011

Calls for controls on methyl chloride

THERE have been calls for controls on the use of methyl chloride as a refrigerant following the discovery of its use, with deadly consequences, in fake refrigerants.

7 Nov 2011

HFCs represent 0.6% of greenhouse gas emissions

THE 2010 AGGI (Annual Greenhouse Gas Index) reveals that in 2010, despite a continuous growth, HFCs represented only 0.605% of the atmospheric level of greenhouse gases, as communicated by the US NOAA global observing networks. In 2009, their share was 0.58%, and in 2008, 0.55%.

7 Nov 2011

Now Bock warns of methyl chloride in fake refrigerants

INDICATIONS that methyl chloride is the rogue refrigerant responsible for three deaths and the grounding of hundreds of reefer containers coincides with a recent warning about fake refrigerants by compressor manufacturer GEA Bock.

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