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ASHRAE Installs New Officers, Directors
Jul 1, 2014 Seattle -- ASHRAE has installed new officers and directors for 2014-15 at its Annual Meeting held here June 28-July 2. The new president is Thomas H. Phoenix, P.E., Fellow ASHRAE, ASHRAE-Certified Building Energy Assessment and Building Energy Modeling Professional, principal and vice president, Moser Mayer Phoenix Associates, Greensboro, N.C. His presidential theme is People, P...
Integral relocates refrigeration business headquarters
2 July 2014 Integral UK has relocated the headquarters of its national refrigeration business to new, purpose-built premises in Birstall, Leicester. Situated just a few miles from the former premises in Thurmaston, the company says the new, state-of-the-art facility demonstrates its long-term commitment to serving its customers in the UK refrigeration sector and it is investing in a long-t...
Epta acquires Cold Service Group in the UK
2 July 2014 Epta has acquired Cold Service Group, the specialist in the design, installation and maintenance of turnkey refrigeration and air-conditioning systems in the UK, effective from 1 July. This is a significant strategic transaction for the Group which positions EPTA as a national service provider. Joint skills and resources will also provide a high quality response operating with optimum...
Hubbard Products to develop sustainable alternative to vehic
2 July 2014 Hubbard Products has been chosen as the developer of a new and sustainable approach to vehicle refrigeration. The announcement was made at the launch of the Centre for Low Carbon Futures Liquid Air on the Highway report setting out the business case for liquid air commercial vehicles in the UK, which took place on 4 June at The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders headquar...
US Environmental Protection Agency proposes approval of new
2 July 2014 In support of President Obama’s Climate Action Plan, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to increase the options for refrigerants in the United States that offer better climate protection without harming the ozone layer. This is the agency’s first action that addresses refrigerants under the Climate Action Plan, which calls on EPA’s Significant New Alternat...
United Refrigeration rebrands as RW Refrigeration Wholesale
2 July 2014 Beijer Ref, the European refrigeration and air conditioning wholesaling company which acquired United Refrigeration wholesale in 2011, has renamed the business RW Refrigeration Wholesale. Since the acquisition Beijer Ref has taken the business from a regional to national player and believes it is now fitting to rebrand RW in line with the fresh thinking approach. National...
K reports strong growth for June
2 July 2014 According to the latest Markit/CIPS UK Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) for June, the UK has reported strong growth in output, new orders and jobs. The Index reached 57.5 in June, up from 57.0 in May, and the second-highest reading in 40 months. Manufacturing output increased for the sixteenth consecutive month in June. Although the rate of growth eased to a ...
The Common Implementation Roadmap (published by the RHC plat
Jul. 02, 2014 | A report that describes new solutions and further development of RHC (Renewable Heating and Cooling) technologies The Renewable Heating and Cooling Platform has just released a ...
EUSEW 2014: EHPA participates in the high level policy confe
Jul. 02, 2014 The European Sustainable Energy Week 2014 took place from the 23 to 27 of June in Brussels. Several conferences and workshops stressed the importance of using renewable energy sources fr...
Enerfit to Market Retrofit System for Single-zone HVAC Rooft
July 2, 2014 A father-and-son team of entrepreneurs out of Chattanooga, TN are in the final weeks of finalizing Enerfit, an improved version of a retrofit system they say significantly improves the ef...
