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 14 Jan 2011

Daikin calls in police over bogus website

JAPANESE air conditioning manufacturer Daikin has contacted police in Australia after the launch of a website which the company says falsely claims to be Daikin Air Australia and New Zealand. Daikin says it considers the website a serious breach of brand, copyright and intellectual property. 
 11 Jan 2011

Air conditioning units used for drug smuggling

TWO Britons and an Irish national have been arrested on the Costa Brava for allegedly smuggling millions of pounds worth of cannabis into the UK inside air conditioning units. 
 11 Jan 2011

New process reclaims refrigerants to their original components

A US company has devised a process to reclaim refrigerants to their original chemical constituents. The system, if successful, would enable hydrogen fluoride (HF), an increasingly scarce key chemical component of fluorocarbon refrigerants to be reused. 
 11 Jan 2011

Places still available at Transforming Technologies Conference

DELEGATE places are still available at the Transforming Technologies Conference, an event that should not be missed by anyone in the air conditioning and refrigeration industries concerned with rising energy prices and the need to reduce carbon footprints. 
 10 Jan 2011

CIBSE calls for mandatory lodging of ac inspections

CIBSE is now calling for the lodgement of air conditioning inspections to be made mandatory. With the implementation of lower 12kW threshold for air conditioning inspections on January 4th, most air conditioned spaces of over 2,000ft2 now fall within the regulations and CIBSE feels it is time to act on compliance. 
 5 Jan 2011

Hitachi develops solar air conditioning

HITACHI is the latest company to join the drive for solar-powered air conditioning. Hitachi group subsidiary Hitachi Plant Technologies Ltd has is reported to have developed a solar activated air conditioning system employing its own solar energy collector. 
 5 Jan 2011

Mike Nicholas is new WR md

LEADING Leicestershire-based contractors WR Refrigeration Ltd has appointed Mike Nicholas as managing director. He joins WR from Honeywell Control Systems Ltd and replaces Hugh Cole who left at the end of September. 
 4 Jan 2011

Mexichem to sponsor ACR News Awards

MEXICHEM Fluor SA is the latest company to pledge its support for the ACR News Awards. The Mexican chemical manufacturer, which last year purchased UK refrigerant producer Ineos Fluor, has announced its decision to sponsor the industry's leading awards event taking place at the end of March. 
 4 Jan 2011

Toshiba Carrier md joins Johnson Controls

THE managing director of the UK arm of air conditioning manufacturer Toshiba Carrier, Gboyega "Femi" Obafemi, has left the company to join Johnson Controls as executive director/VP for hvac and controls products for Europe. 
 21 Dec 2010

ACR Show welcomes Mitsubishi Heavy Industries

MITSUBISHI Heavy Industries is the first of the large Japanese air conditioning manufacturers to book space at the new ACR Show that will take place at the NEC, Birmingham, from March 13-15 2012. 
 21 Dec 2010

Beijer to buy SCM Frigo

WITH the ink barely dry on the contract to acquire Carrier's refrigeration wholesaling operation in Thailand, the Swedish wholesaler G & L Beijer has announced its intention to buy the Italian refrigeration equipment manufacturer SCM Frigo. 
 21 Dec 2010

Still time to enter the ACR News Awards

THERE is still time to enter the ACR News Awards 2011. Closing date for entries for this prestigious biennial event has now been extended to Monday January 31st. 
 20 Dec 2010

GEA to buy German compressor manufacturer Bock

GEA Refrigeration Technologies is to buy German refrigeration compressor manufacturer Bock for an undisclosed sum. A family-owned business headquartered in Frickenhausen, Bock has more than 300 staff, and additional manufacturing sites in the Czech Republic, India and China. 
 14 Dec 2010

Tesco confirms CO2 system failure at Walkden

TESCO has now confirmed that it was joint failure on a transcritical CO2 refrigeration system that caused the "explosion" at the Tesco Extra supermarket in Walkden, Greater Manchester, yesterday. 
 13 Dec 2010

CO2 refrigeration thought to be involved in Tesco "explosion"

Unconfirmed reports are suggesting that a CO2 refrigeration system was responsible for the "explosion" at the Tesco Extra supermarket in Walkden, Greater Manchester, yesterday. 
 12 Dec 2010

Eight people treated after fridge incident at supermarket

EIGHT people are said to have been treated by paramedics and four sent to hospital after an incident at a Tesco Extra supermarket in Walkden Greater Manchester on Sunday (12/12/10). 
 10 Dec 2010

Dave Gillett to leave Searle

DAVE Gillett, md of GEA Searle, is to leave the company after 36 years with the Fareham-based heat exchanger manufacturer. 
 10 Dec 2010

HVCA's Robert Higgs to step down

HVCA chief executive Robert Higgs is to retire from the Association after 38 years' service. 
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