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Maritime reefer trade in South America
17/07/2014 In 2011, reefer exports accounted for 12% of the value of total exports from the east and west coasts of South America, equivalent to USD 40 billion. Reefer trade is a rapidly growin...
AGRO Merchants Group In Charleston, S.C. To Upgrade Cold Sto
JUL 2, 2014 AGRO Merchants Group in Charleston, S.C. is upgrading a 121,000-square-foot cold storage facility to include 14,000 frozen pallet positions, USDA meat import and export inspection services and blast freezing cells. The facility will provide storage, handling and other value-added services for its import and export customers. Primus Builders, based in Atlanta, Ga., was selected to provi...
World heating market overview
18 July 2014BSRIA’s new World Heating market study 2014, covers Europe, Asia/Pacific, ME & North Africa and North and South American regions. Altogether, the study includes 90 reports analysing D...
Bosch launches Twitter and LinkedIn accounts
17 July 2014 Bosch Commercial & Industrial Heating has gone live with its own dedicated Twitter and LinkedIn accounts. With an increasing number of M&E professionals using social media ...
Energy efficiency course launched
17 July 2014 Asset Skills Training has launched a new energy efficiency course for housing in response to a demand for clarification of the new government green schemes. Energy efficiency is high on both government and personal agendas. From 2018, it will be illegal to rent out inefficient properties, leading to 20 per cent of affordable housing stock being removed. Cutting carbon emissions...
Fish processing facility operating on high efficiency HFC re
17 July 2014 A spiral freezer plant at a Grimsby fish processing facility is believed to be the first of its kind in the UK to be converted to operate on the new high efficiency HFC refrigerant, R407F. The conversion, from refrigerant R22, was carried out by Coldstar Refrigeration at Young’s Seafood Grimsby facility, and supplied with the A-Gas refrigerant Genetron Performax LT by Climate C...
Kensa joins national scheme to champion British manufacturin
17 July 2014 Kensa Heat Pumps has joined a national campaign to boost British industry as part of a major re-brand. The ‘Made In Britain’ campaign, which sees Kensa sit alongside fellow supporters including VanGuard and Stoves UK, aims to ‘enable customers to identify British made products, supporting & promoting British manufacturing in the UK and overseas.’ Kensa aims to promot...
Leapfrogging policies discussed in UN workshop
17 July 2014 The HFC management workshop, which took place in Paris on the margins of the 34th meeting of the Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG) of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that...
HVAC Representatives to Serve on DOE Regional Standards Work
17 July 2014 WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) intends to establish a rulemaking working group under the Appliance Standards and Rulemaking Federal Advisory Committee (ASRAC) to negotiate proposed regional energy efficiency standards. Two HVAC professionals have been announced as participants in this group. In April, the U.S. District Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit app...
Four Are Named Stars of Energy Efficiency by ASE
17 July 2014 WASHINGTON - The Alliance to Save Energy (ASE) has announced four recipients of its 2014 Star of Energy Efficiency Awards: Nest Labs Inc., MGM Resorts International, National Housing Trust, and Phipps Conservatory & Botanical Gardens. Nest Labs Inc. is being honored with the Super Nova Star award for the learning capability of its Nest Learning Thermostat along with its ene...
