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Ingersoll Rand Collaborates with IRI to Develop Sustainabili
Arlington, VA and Davidson, N.C., April 21, 2014 -- Sustainability and new product development are becoming increasingly interrelated as the former gains prominence in today’s business landscape. Organizations are seeking methods for determining how to make products more sustainable as access to resources become constrained. To address this challenge, Ingersoll Rand, a world leader in creating com...
Optimum Energy Launches New HVAC Energy Optimization Platfor
Apr 21, 2014 Seattle -- Optimum Energy, a provider of data-driven HVAC energy optimization for enterprise facilities, has announced the launch of its OptiCx? Platform. The company said the platform delivers holistic energy management with the option to start with “essential” energy optimization of HVAC systems, along with engineering support services. “At Optimum Energy, we’re excited to de...
Interest in Renewable Energy Is Growing, Says AHR Expo Surve
Apr 21, 2014 Westport, Conn. -- According to a 2014 AHR Expo post-show survey of attendees, 41 percent of the more than 2,000 respondents said they came to the show seeking products related to “renewa...
Building Energy Efficiency Retrofits Market to Surpass $127
Apr 21, 2014 Boulder, Colo. -- Residential and commercial buildings account for 35 to 40 percent of total energy consumption worldwide, notes Navigant Research. Commercial buildings, in particular, consume large amounts of energy related to HVAC, water heating, lighting, and other building systems. Efforts to reduce energy consumption have led to increasing deployments of energy efficiency retrofi...
LG Door-in-Door Refrigerator Called One of Year's Most Innov
Apr 21, 2014 LG Electronics’ 4-Door French-Door Refrigerator with a Door-in-Door configuration was named as one of the 30 Most Innovative Products for 2014 by Better Homes and Gardens: Kitchen + Bath ...
Final Commercial Refrigeration Rule Published
Apr 21, 2014 A final rule, published by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) on April 21, revises and reorganizes test procedures for commercial refrigeration equipment (CRE) to clarify terms, procedures, and compliance dates, with an aim of improving repeatability and removing ambiguity from testing. The scope of the category "commercial refrigeration" is quite broad, and some of the clarif...
Revised F-gas Regulation formally adopted by EU Member State
18/04/2014 The revised Regulation on fluorinated greenhouse gases (F-gases), endorsed by the European Parliament in March 2014 was adopted on April 14, 2014 by the EU Council in which Member States ar...
Cold chain improvements for the export of Ecuadorian product
18/04/2014 On March 11, The Ministers of Foreign Trade, Francisco Rivadeneira and of Interior, Jose Serrano, agreed on improving the conditions in which the anti-narcotics police checks the products at the port of Guayaquil so that they don’t interrupt the cold chain. The Ministers agreed, in a tour that they took of the courtyards of the Narcotics police in the port of Guayaquil, to find the bes...
New refrigerant leak detection and isolation technology
17/04/2014 Toshiba has introduced a system which will automatically isolate a specific section of air conditioning pipework in the event of a leak. Conventional approaches shut down the entire ...
MHI to Sell Lithium-ion Rechargeable Battery Business Assets
-- Management Resources to be Shifted to Energy Storage System Products -- Tokyo, April 18, 2014 - Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) has concluded an agreement with Delta Electronics, Inc., a l...
