Installers aren’t ill-trained technophobes

AREA has hit out at European Commission suggestions that air conditioning and refrigeration contractors are ill-trained and dislike new technologies. The European contractors’ body, which claims to represent more than 9,000 companies and a workforce of 125,000, has taken issue with the Commission’s comments in one of the working documents making up the EC’s Strategy on Heating and Cooling - a major plank in its desire for an Energy Union.