Europe
Coca Cola to narrowly miss HFC-free global refrigeration tar
20 March 2015 Soft drinks giant will miss its target, set in 2009 for including natural refrigerants in all new equipment globally by 4 per cent. Coca Cola will narrowly fail to reach its ambit...
NAPIT stresses importance of Amendment 3
20 March 2015 NAPIT delivered a seminar on Amendment 3 to the 17th Edition Wiring Regulations to engineers from Kier Services and Sheffield City Council on 12 March. As part of NAPIT’s ongoing efforts to educate electrical installers on the changes to the 17th Edition Wiring Regulations, the seminar provided both organisations with all the required knowledge on Amendment 3. “We feel ...
UK chooses smart heating over smart watches
20 March 2015 Research by YouGov has revealed that almost a quarter (24%) of UK adults would be interested in buying a smart heating system, while more than one in five (22%) would be interested in bu...
Ziehl-Abegg Boosted by Exports: Sales Rise by 9% in 2014
Ziehl-Abegg’s global sales increased by 9% to 423 million Euro(US$ 480 million) in 2014, enabling the company to press further ahead with investments of more than 20 million Euro(US$ 23 million) in th...
Good Installation & Maintenance for Heat Pumps
-- News and Views in Latest Issue of HPC Newsletter A heat pump is an impressive tool for upgrading heat from a low - temperature source to usable temperatures. However, in order for the heat p...
Ambient beer cooler cuts energy bills
18/03/2015 A new ambient beer cooler, using free cooling when available, is said to be capable of cutting cellar cooling energy bills by up to 40%. The J & E Hall ambient beer cooler uses winter o...
Bitzer approves new low GWP refrigerants
March 20, 2015 GERMANY: Bitzer has become the first compressor manufacturer to approve a full range of new low GWP refrigerants. Following DuPont’s announcement last week that its refrigerants ...
Travis Perkins’ merchant brands hone heating and plumbing of
19 March 2015 Travis Perkins Group’s plumbing and heating division has announced a major programme that is transforming the way its two merchant brands, City Plumbing Supplies (CPS) and Plumbing Trade Supplies (PTS), serve customers. Both companies are investing in boosting service levels to meet the specific needs of customers in the domestic and contract sectors. They are taking a more ta...
Report looks at bridging the energy performance gap
19 March 2015 A new report produced by the BRE Trust and the Energy Services and Technology Association aims to help facilities managers and building operators bridge the energy performance gap in their building portfolio, so consumption and costs can be reduced for business benefit. Director of ESTA, Robin Hale said: “Buildings rarely perform as well as their designers predicted - energy c...
An Eye on the Future of Cooling Technologies
19 March 2015 UK: Refrigeration, Air Conditioning and Heat Pumps (RACHP) industry underpins everything we do. Refrigeration reaches in to vast range of fields, that we all in counter in our everyday lives for example without it the food supply would still be seasonal and limited to locally produced non-consumable items; data centres would not work, comfortable living conditions and certain medical...
Klima-Therm Appointed UK Distributor for Gree’s Centrifugal
Klima-Therm has been appointed UK distributor for Chinese manufacturer Gree’s range of centrifugal chillers. The announcement follows the company’s recent appointment as UK distributor for Worl...
Carrier Transicold’s Vector 1950 Safely Transports Pharmaceu
Spedition Heidelmann, a leading German refrigerated transporter, has selected Carrier Transicold’s Vector 1950 unit with E -Drive all-electric technology for the distribution of sensitive pharmaceutical products that require a specific temperature range- even in winter. Carrier Transicold, which operates in Germany as Carrier Transicold Germany, helps improve global transport and shipping temperat...
