eJARN News
Ingersoll Rand Acquires Frigoblock
Transport refrigeration specialist Frigoblock (Germany) is to be bought by Ingersoll Rand (the United States) who markets the well-known Thermo King range of units. Frigoblock is the largest manufacturer of chillers for trucks and trailers in Germany and the third largest Europe -wide in the transport refrigeration sector. The company produces around 2,500 units annually from its facility in Essen...
Key Role for Mechanical Ventilation
The UK’s Environmental Audit Committee estimates that air pollution causes some 29,000 deaths every year. BSRIA makes the case for the universal adoption of balanced mechanical ventilation systems sup-plying treated air to buildings which are located near primary sources of pollutants such as busy roads. This would also solve the problem of high concentrations of indoor pollutants which are known ...
Key Ammonia and CO2 Event
The IIR International Conference on Ammonia and CO2 Refrigeration Technologies will be held on April 16-18, 2015, in Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia. Organized by the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in Skopje, the conference themes include the design of modern ammonia refrigerating systems, transcritical and subcritical CO2 systems, techno-logical innovations, energy efficiency, applications in the...
Dalkia Acquires Cesbron
Dalkia, the energy services subsidiary of the French power utility EDF, has just finalized an agreement ac-cording to which Dalkia will acquire Cesbron. Specialized in refrigeration and HVAC, Cesbron is an independent French family group with sales of almost 97 million Euro(US$ 110 million) in 2014. Founded over 100 years ago, Cesbron has 730 employees and 65 sites in France. Dalkia is strongly fo...
Picard for Sale?
According to the economic and financial press, the investment fund Lion Capital plans to sell Picard, French leader in the retail frozen food sector. Lion Capital purchased Picard from BC Partners for 1.5 billion Euro(US$ 1.7 billion) four years ago. The Picard network comprises over 920 stores throughout France, sells over 1,200 premium products and its sales have reached 1.4 billion Euro(US$ 1.7...
Orly Gel Taken Over by Sofrino
Sofrino, a member of Sofrilog, has acquired Orly Gel, a key frozen food logistics specialist in the Paris area. Orly Gel was founded in the 1980s and has a broad range of customers in the food industry, and in the distribution and catering sectors. The company provides solutions in the storage, order picking and delivery fields. Orly Gel manages three refrigerated warehouses with a total capacity ...
Saint Joseph Technical High School Adopts CO2
The Saint Joseph Technical High School Group in Troyes, France, held an open day late in 2014 with CO2 as theme. The school demonstrated an Advansor central transcritical CO2 system it is now using for training sessions. Saint Joseph Technical High School is specialized in energy services. Darren Lacroix, international sales director at Advansor, a Denmark-based leader in the field of trans...
CNIM Absorption Chillers Aboard an Offshore Vessel
French turnkey industrial solutions company CNIM has been awarded by Petrofac, a leading international service provider to the oil and gas industry, a contract to design, build and commission an innovative highly energy efficient and environmentally friendly cooling system consisting of two custom-made absorption chillers. This system will be installed aboard Petrofac’s new JSD6000 deepwater derri...
2014: a Record Year for Sanden in Europe
Sales of Sanden CO2 heat pumps increased by a staggering 350% in Europe in 2014, and a new re-cord is likely to be broken in 2015. Launched in 2011, Sanden’s heat pumps used in the production of sanitary hot water are manufactured at Sanden Manufacturing Europe’s site in Brittany, France, and 850 employees work at the site. Sanden’s CO2 technology has been chosen by builders of single-famil...
Mayekawa Plus+HEAT Heat Pumps
Mayekawa has launched high pressure Plus+HEAT systems that can produce hot water at temperatures up to 85℃ from various heat sources such as condensed waste heat from compressors, waste heat in factor...
