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Trane Honored for 15 Years of Green Seal Certification
November 12, 2014 Green Seal, an organization offering third-party certification of sustainability standards for both business-to-business and consumer products, recently honored Ingersoll Rand’s Tran...
ITC Rules That Imports of R-134a from China Do Not Harm US I
Nov 13, 2014 TLALNEPANTLA, Mexico - Mexichem, a global specialty chemicals company that produces refrigerant gases, announced that the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) has ruled that imports of R-134a refrigerant from China do not harm United States industry. This ruling, however, runs counter to the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Oct. 15, 2014 proposed final resolution regarding an...
BPI Introduces Certification for Duct and Envelope Tightness
Nov 13, 2014 MALTA, N.Y. - The Building Performance Institute Inc. (BPI) has announced the introduction of its Infiltration and Duct Leakage (IDL) certification, a task-oriented credential that verifies a candidate can successfully conduct air infiltration and duct leakage tests to the ASTM E1554-07 standard. Sometimes referred to as duct and envelope tightness (DET) on the training side, e...
Importance of Refrigeration - And Ice Cream - Focus Of ASHRA
Nov 13, 2014 ATLANTA - From Cherry Garcia to Sea Salt Caramel, Americans love their ice cream. Nearly 9 percent of cow’s milk produced in the United States goes toward making ice cream, and America is...
Rees Scholarship Foundation Supports Future HVACR and Water
November 12, 2014 Arlington, Va. -- The Clifford H. "Ted" Rees, Jr., Scholarship Foundation, a 501(c)(3) charitable foundation of the Air-Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Institute (AHRI), tod...
New ASERCOM certification programme gets underway at Chillve
13 November 2014 The refrigeration industry needs security - that was the consensus reached by more than 250 visitors to the 2014 Chillventa Congressing Programme. This is why the ASERCOM + EPEE Symp...
Honeywell welcomes presidents' environmental commitments
13 November 2014 Honeywell has welcomed the environmental commitments made by President Obama and President Xi recently announced. The company says that governments need to take meaningful steps to re...
Starfrost celebrates 30th anniversary and unveils new headqu
13 November 2014 Starfrost is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year and has just relocated its UK headquarters and manufacturing base to a new purpose built facility at Oulton Broad, near Lowestoft, in Suffolk. At over 1,000 square metres, the waterside business premises at Craftsmans Way hads office space and meeting rooms, as well as a large engineering workshop and equipment mainten...
Fast growing HFC levels could undermine climate benefits of
12 November 2014 The Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion 2014, published by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), has found that the ozo...
Abolition of the carbon tax in Australia.
11 November 2014 The Australian Government has abolished carbon tax, with effect from July 1, 2014. The tax, introduced in July 2012, was thought to have led particularly to dramatic increases in refrigerant prices. Taxes were applied according to a refrigerant’s global warming potential: some of the higher GWP HFCs had seen huge price increases. Source: http://www.iifiir.orgcialisci...
