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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...
The Sterling Group Completes Acquisition of Roberts-Gordon
17 July 2014 HOUSTON - The Sterling Group, a middle market private equity firm based in Houston, announced that its affiliated investment fund, Sterling Group Partners III L.P., has completed the acquisition of Roberts-Gordon LLC. Headquartered in Buffalo, New York, Roberts-Gordon designs and manufactures specialty commercial and industrial HVAC equipment as well as industrial process and f...
Cooling distributor TF Solutions appoints new technical serv
17 July 2014 Lewis Jones brings wealth of experience and ‘exceptional product knowledge’ to the distributor Air conditioning and refrigeration distributor TF Solutions has announced the appointment of Lewis Jones to the position of Technical Support Engineer. Mr Jones’s new role will span the whole of the UK and will further strengthen the technical services offering, the firm said, by ensu...
Honeywell Celebrates 10th Anniversary of Inspiration at Hone
17 July 2014 Honeywell Educators @ Space Academy (HESA) celebrated its 10th anniversary of helping math and science teachers inspire the next generation of scientists. With demand growing for STEM-rel...
LG Event Launches New Door-In-Door Refrigerator and Promotes
17 July 2014 LG Electronics hosted a Junior Chef Academy on July 15 in Los Angeles to recognize the No Kid Hungry campaign and to promote the new LG 4-Door French-Door Refrigerator with Door-in-Door a...
Fish processing facility converted to operate on high effici
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...
Waterloo gains ISO 14001 certification
17 July 2014 Waterloo Products has achieved ISO 14001 certification The standard essentially maps out an environmental management system that helps businesses in any industry identify areas where cost...
Scotland’s housing bill adds mandatory electrical safety che
17 July 2014 Scotland’s new Housing Bill has included an amendment on electrical safety, tabled by Bob Doris MSP. The amendment now ensures mandatory, five-yearly electrical checks, by a registered electrician, of all PRS homes - and any electrical appliance supplied with them. According to Electrical Safety First, in 2012 almost two thirds of PRS homes failed to meet the Scotti...
UK’s new environment & energy ministers ‘opposed renewable e
17 July 2014 The new set of Conservative environment and energy ministers announced on Tuesday bring a track record of opposing renewable energy, The Guardian has reported. The new ministers ha...
Tussle over phasing out ozone-depleting gases
New Delhi, July 15, 2014 If it is serious about phasing out ozone-depleting gases by 2030, India needs to evolve a clear stand against persisting with those that have global warming potential and eval...
