JARN News
Bitzer Ecoline CO2 Compressors Adopted in Electric Buses in
Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG), a German public transport company, ordered new electric buses from bus manufacturer Solaris in 2019. BVG specified that the buses had to adopt CO2 refrigerant for cool...
Panasonic to Boost In-cabin Air Quality of Land Rovers
Panasonic’s nanoe X technology is now being deployed in Jaguar Land Rover’s new Range Rover. nanoe X inhibits bacteria and viruses, and reduces odors. The technology works by releasing lar...
Danfoss & Ohmia Retail Launch JV for Refrigeration as a Serv
Danfoss entered a partnership with Ohmia Retail, a Norwegian energy service company, and established a joint venture (JV) company in Sweden called Ohmia Retail Sweden to complement its current offerin...
EPA Launches Energy Star Home Upgrade
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the launch of the Energy Star Home Upgrade, a series of improvements designed to save electricity and money spent on utility bills. As an expan...
Honeywell Announces New Low-GWP Refrigerant for Supermarkets
Honeywell announced that it would offer Solstice N71 (R471A), a new refrigerant for commercial and industrial refrigeration that is optimized for supermarkets. The latest addition to Honeywell’s low-GWP Solstice lineup is non-flammable (A1) and has a global warming potential (GWP) of 148. It is a blend of the hydrofluoroolefin (HFO) refrigerants R1234ze(E) and R1336mzz(E), and hydrofluorocar...
LG Expands Its 2022 Heat Pump Product Portfolio
LG Electronics USA unveiled a new line of innovative, high-efficiency heat pump products at the ninth annual Design and Construction Week, held in Orlando, Florida from February 8 to 10. LG’s...
Panasonic Launches New Etherea Graphite Grey Units
Panasonic Heating & Cooling Solutions is launching its brand new, stylish Graphite Grey units as additions to the Etherea with nanoe X range of air conditioners, available in capacities ranging fr...
AHRI President Stephen Yurek Urges Kigali Ratification
In testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Stephen Yurek, president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Air-Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Institute (AHRI) extolled the ben...
ebm-papst Provides Sustainable Drive Solution for Witt Group
The intralogistics specialist Beumer Group was looking for a sustainable drive solution for the Witt Group sorting systems that replaces conventional pneumatic drives for flap controls. The ECI 63 dri...
Preventing Refrigerant Leakage Is Not Easy
Sei Suma, senior advisor, Japan Air Conditioning, Heating and Refrigeration News (JARN) Efforts to prevent global warming involve major challenges in the heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and...
