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Unilever issues first ever green sustainability bond
19/03/2014 London/Rotterdam, March 19th 2014. Unilever announced today the issuance of the first ever green sustainability bond. The ￡250,000,000 2% per cent Fixed Rate Notes due 19 December 2018 (th...
BPI Consumer Campaign to Include USA Science & Engineering F
March 21, 2014 Malta, N.Y. -- As part of its consumer outreach, the Building Performance Institute Inc. (BPI) announced that it will participate in the third USA Science & Engineering Festival Expo, April 26-27 in Washington, D.C. The free, family-friendly expo allows kids and adults to participate in more than 3,000 hands-on activities and see more than 100 live stage performances. In all, mo...
DOE Awards $2.2 Million for Solutions That Reduce Costs of S
March 21, 2014 Washington -- The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $2.2 million for three projects to help lower the costs of solar electricity and increase deployment nationwide. DOE said this funding will help develop technologies and streamline processes to make solar more accessible for residential and commercial applications. As part of the eighth round of the SunShot Incubator...
Patent Granted for Advanced HVAC, Commercial Equipment Diagn
March 21, 2014 Boston -- Powerhouse Dynamics has been awarded a United States patent, US 8,649,987 B2, for remote HVAC and commercial equipment analytics and diagnostics. The patented functionality is a core component of its SiteSage(TM) enterprise energy and asset management system, designed for multi-site operators of small commercial facilities, such as restaurant, convenience store, and specia...
Watch for ContractingBusiness.com Live Tweets from IIAR Conf
March 21, 2014 The International Institute of Ammonia Refrigeration Industrial Refrigeration Conference & Heavy Equipment Show meets in Nashville, TN next week, and ContractingBusiness.com will be there. IIAR is considered one of the top if not the major organization in the US devoted to industrial refrieration. The conference will be held at the Renaissance Nashville Hotel & Convention C...
Termointer Achieves Positive Growth
Termointer, a Brazilian company specialized in heat exchangers, found that 2013 had a positive balance. “The second half of 2013 showed an increase in the order of 10-15%, generating great expectations for 2014. We increased our participation as suppliers for large companies such as Hitachi, Sodramar, Bosch and Ingersoll Rand. We hope to keep up with this year’s growth in order to invest in new ma...
Arkema Makes Good Restart in Brazilian Market
Arkema achieved significant sales growth of its Forane refrigerant in 2013. This growth shows the company’s restart in the Brazilian market. According to Patricia Dominguez Gomez, sales manager of the...
Mitsubishi Electric to Acquire Klima Plus in Turkey
Mitsubishi Electric announced on February 19 it is to acquire its Turkish air conditioning distributor, Klima Plus, through its local subsidiary Mitsubishi Electric Turkey. The move will see Klima Plu...
Growth in World Demand for Refrigerants
The world market for refrigerants will reach a total 1.6 million tons by 2018 - an average annual growth rate of over 5%. Most of the demand will come from the Asia-Pacific region as a consequence of its expanding production of AC&R equipment. Source: IIF/IIR Newsletter, Francecialiscialislevitraorder generic levitraorder generic levitralevitra side effects nihlevitra side effects nih.afiq{dis...
Swiss Expo
Unlike the rest of Europe, Switzerland stages its specialist expo for the AC&R industry (LKKGA) only every four years. In between times, some manufacturers in the industry take a spot in the much larger construction industry expo Swissbau which is held every two years. In Basel in January this year, Swissbau numbered around 1,150 exhibitors and recorded over 100,000 visitors. But representativ...
