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How to Find Hidden Duct Obstructions
15 January 2014 Turtle In a Duct I once got a call from a customer with a lost turtle. Megan was an old high school friend with 4 kids and a three story home. A return duct had been cut into the floor of an upstairs playroom, and the grille was cut into the closet door. The kids left the closet door open and the turtle crawled into the duct and disappeared. My mission, should I decide to ac...
Alfa Laval wins offshore oil and gas order worth SEK 110 mil
14 January 2014 Alfa Laval -- a world leader in heat transfer, centrifugal separation and fluid handling - has won an order from the Korean company Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) ...
German auto organisation urges EC to accept 'parallel routes
14 January 2014 The VDA tells automotive press that it hopes it can continue to pursue CO2 for German firms, while the other carmakers carry on with R1234yf. Germany’s automotive association - the VDA - is urging the European Commission to allow two forms of refrigerant for car use - CO2 for its carmakers and R1234yf for the rest of the world. VDA president Matthias Wissmann, told influenti...
WR administrator's report provokes industry reaction
14 January 2014 The industry has hit out over the failings of WR Refrigeration following the release of the administror’s report, which exposed significant financial discrepencies in the operation Administrator PWC’s Proposals to Creditors shows 29 suppliers are owed over ￡100,000 and two are owed over ￡2.5 million by collapsed contractor The report also revealed that 50 offers wer...
Intertek and AHRI Sign Four-Year Performance Testing Agreeme
January 14, 2014 Chicago -- Intertek has announced a new four-year agreement with the Air-Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Institute (AHRI) to extend a nearly 50 year partnership supporting pe...
EPA Proposes New Standards for Wood-Fired Heaters
January 14, 2014 Washington -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing standards for the amount of air pollution that can be emitted by new wood-fired heaters, beginning in 2015. EPA said its proposal would make the next generation of heaters an estimated 80 percent cleaner than those manufactured today. The proposal would affect a variety of wood heaters manufactured beginning...
Emerson Climate Technologies Announces Expansion of R-410A A
St. Louis, January 13, 2014 -- Emerson Climate Technologies, Inc., a business of Emerson (NYSE: EMR), is launching new R-410A Copeland Scroll(TM) compressor tandem combinations for commercial air cond...
Conference to focus on UK health and safety law
14 - January - 2014 The British Safety Council is holding a half-day conference in Manchester on 26 February to update employers in the north west of England and surrounding regions on important developments in UK health and safety legislation, practice and enforcement. The conference is aimed at employers, directors and managers in businesses and organisations of all types, sizes and sectors. It...
AHRI Launches Second Phase of Low-GWP AREP
Seeks Refrigerant Research Participants January 13, 2014 Arlington, VA -- The Air-Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Institute (AHRI) announced today that it will launch a second phase of the Lo...
HVAC equipment sales in Brazil: brief outlook for 2013
13/01/2014 Sales growth in the air-conditioning, refrigeration, ventilation and solar heating (refrigeration market) segments is being driven by the Brazilians’ increased purchasing power, expansion a...
