eJARN News
Stephen Gill Associates wins Asia-Pacific Stevie Award
29 April 2014 Stephen Gill Associates has been named the winner of a Silver Stevie Award in the New Business Service of the Year category at the first annual Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards. The Asia-Paci...
Report flags up the Scottish islands as major source of rene
29 April 2014 A report from the UK and Scottish Governments highlights the Scottish islands’ potential as major sources of renewable energy - and the challenges that need to be overcome. The report - Scottish Islands Renewables Project - shows that while there are significant potential benefits to developing renewables in Orkney, Shetland and the Western Isles, there are also con...
HFO1123: a new alternative to R410A?
28/04/2014 Japanese firm Asahi Glass, in collaboration with state technology researcher NEDO, announced its own refrigerant for use in air conditioning systems, stating that commercial production woul...
Ground Source Heat Pump Track Added to ASHRAE Annual Confere
Apr 29, 2014 A new track added to the Technical Program at ASHRAE’s 2014 Annual Conference speaks to the challenges engineers face when designing ground source heat pumps as compared to more tradition...
Report from the AGM of Alfa Laval AB
April 28, 2014 The Annual General Meeting of Alfa Laval AB was held at Fars & Frosta Sparbank Arena in Lund, Sweden, on Monday, April 28th. More than 400 shareholders, proxies, guests and official...
NTT and MHI Conclude Tie-up Agreement in R&D Integrating Soc
Tokyo, April 28, 2014 -- Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) concluded a basic agreement today calling for a tie-up in the area of research and development (R&D). The tie-up targets to create new values by applying NTT’s R&D results in the area of information and communication technology (ICT) to MHI’s social infrastructure products ...
Government urged to enforce Payment Charter
28 April 2014 Following the publication of the Payment Charter, the Government has been urged to implement the charter without delay. “Given that there have already been many initiatives aimed at curbing payment abuse which have come more or less to nothing, enforcing compliance with the Payment Charter is of paramount importance,” said SEC Group chief executive Professor Rudi Klein - addin...
Green Point compressor service officially launched in the UK
28 April 2014 Compressor remanufacture and repair service Green Point has been officially launched in the UK by Bitzer. Based at Bitzer UK’s UK headquarters in Bletchley, near Milton Keynes, th...
F-Gas rules ‘could catch cooling industry by surprise’
28 April 2014 With the new F-Gas regulations now definitely coming into force in January, the industry has been warned that some of the regulation details could catch many in the industry by surprise,...
MCS bureaucracy is “astonishing” says Worcester, Bosch Group
Apr 28, 2014 Worcester, Bosch Group’s director of marketing and technical support, Martyn Bridges, has criticised the number of barriers now in place for those looking to achieve Microgeneration Certification Scheme (MCS) accreditation. Mr Bridges has labelled the bureaucracy associated with the MCS "astonishing". He said: "As if installers’ access to MCS isn’t difficult enough given the sheer vo...
