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Unilever on track to reach target of 850,000 climate friendl
02 May 2013 In order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from refrigeration and to accelerate its roll-out of freezer cabinets that use climate friendly (hydrocarbon) refrigerants, in 2010 Unilever set a goal to purchase a further 850,000 climate friendly freezers by 2015, in addition to the 450,000 units the company already had at the time of the Sustainable Living Plan launch. ...
Acklands-Grainger Announces Its Largest Product Expansion
02 May 2013 Toronto -- Acklands-Grainger, one of Canada’s largest distributors of industrial, safety, and fastener products, has announced its largest ever product expansion, adding 200,000 new products to its online offering over the next several months. With this expansion, the company will offer more than 300,000 products to businesses across Canada. “Our customers count on us to be a single s...
Super-Efficient A/C Could Greatly Reduce Energy Demand
02 May 2013 Berkeley, Calif. -- A new assessment of the potential benefits from deploying super-efficient air conditioners has found significant untapped potential for air conditioner efficiency that could avoid more than 120 medium-sized (500 MW) power plants in the countries studied by 2020. The International Energy Studies group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) in collaboration w...
Mayekawa NH3 heat pump uses lake water to heat Swiss hotel
02 May 2013 Differing from traditional heat pump systems extracting heat from the air or the ground, this high-performance ammonia HP system by Mayekawa uses lake water as a heat source. By way of a p...
GEA range now Eurovent certified
GEA range now Eurovent certified 2 May 2013 All units from the GEA COM4 range of compact air-handling units have now been certified in accordance with Eurovent. Eurovent is designed to give the...
￡5.25m project aims to reduce cooling emissions
2 May 2013 The University of Warwick is leading a ￡5.25m project to develop energy-efficient cooling and heating technologies to reduce UK energy needs. i-STUTE - the Interdisciplinary centre for Storage, Transformation and Upgrading of Thermal Energy, funded by the UK Research Councils’ Energy Programme, will develop technologies to reduce energy consumption and deliver cost-effecti...
IACSC and IARW publish new guide to effective warehouse desi
May 02, 2013 The International Association of Refrigerated Warehouses (IARW) and the International Association for Cold Storage Construction (IACSC) recently published the Guide to Effective War...
Agramkow: Helping customers achieve environmental safety
May 02, 2013 Agramkow’s customers in the automotive industry have a strong commitment to environmental protection. We are helping--by being at the forefront of developing equipment to help improve environmental performance for mobile air conditioning. Mobile air-conditioning (MAC) has become standard equipment in many vehicles over the past decade. But because they use greenhouse gas R134a, the r...
Consultation on proposed regulations for the Synthetic Green
24 April 2013 The Minister for Climate Change Issues is seeking feedback on proposed regulations for the synthetic greenhouse gases (SGG) levy. The two areas that are being consulted on are: ? the methodology for setting the carbon price for the SGG levy from 2014 onwards ? an exemption for motor vehicles that are entry certified prior to 1 July 2013. Carbon price methodology The Cli...
Federal Court Grants Motion to Stay Furnace Rules
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled favorably today on an emergency motion filed by the Air-conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Institute (AHRI) requesting a stay of the May 1, 2013, compliance date for the regional furnace standards. May 1, 2013 In an announcement just released by the Air Conditioning Contractors of America, (ACCA), their vice president of government relati...
