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AHRI Announces New Officers, Presents Awards
November 29, 2013 Arlington, Va. -- The Air-Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Institute (AHRI) has announced the election of new officers and directors, and the presentation of awards to indust...
Las Vegas Implements Energy Optimization in Public Buildings
November 29, 2013 San Francisco -- BuildingIQ, a leading energy management software company, announced that the city of Las Vegas is the first city to deploy its cloud-based energy management system broadly for optimized power consumption. The deployment is part of utility NV Energy’s mPowered program. BuildingIQ’s Predictive Energy Optimization? software learns a building’s HVAC energy patterns t...
Maker of Intelligent Comfort Software for Buildings Announce
November 29, 2013 Oakland, Calif. -- Building Robotics, creator of intelligent comfort software for occupants in commercial buildings, has announced a $1.14 million seed financing round by Claremont Creek Ventures (CCV), Google Ventures, Formation 8, Navitas Capital, Red Swan Ventures, and prominent angel investors. Building Robotics said its initial software product, Comfy, is designed to ...
New Nestle freezers to help tackle climate change
Nov. 27, 2013 (Thomson Reuters ONE via COMTEX) -- Nestle S.A. / New Nestle freezers to help tackle climate change . Processed and transmitted by NASDAQ OMX Corporate Solutions. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. Nestle is systematically introducing more environmentally efficient ice cream freezers using natural refrigerants across Europe. The company has pledg...
Distribution Centre cuts energy cost by 40%
28 November 2013 A global logistics specialist was looking for an energy efficient cooling system to serve a frozen food cold store and to replace an existing plant that operated on R22. The facility ...
Nestle USA to Build North American Product Technology Center
November 20, 2013 Stellar, a fully integrated firm focused on design, engineering, construction and mechanical services, has begun pre-construction of a $53 million product technology center for Nestl...
UK market is poised to exceed ￡1bn by 2016
28 November 2013 The need for improved energy performance and replacing refrigerants, together with tackling issues such as noise and recyclability will see the UK refrigeration market total ￡1.1bn in 2016. According to a report by BSRIA’s specialist consultancy Worldwide Market Intelligence (WMI), the UK market was estimated at ￡940m in 2012 after a dip in 2011 - refrigeration and e...
Carbon Trust invites input about heat recovery from refriger
28 November 2013 The Carbon Trust is investigating whether different types of waste heat recovery equipment for refrigeration systems should join other heat recovery technologies on the Energy Technol...
RDM launches compressor outage protector
28 November 2013 Resource Data Management has introduced a device to protect refrigeration compressors from damage following power outages. Called Intuitive Power Store, the technology links to the company’s stepper valve controller, to provide protection against compressor damage on start-up following power failure. The combination automatically closes stepper valves when mains power is lo...
Magnetic refrigeration specialist win international engineer
28 November 2013 Cooltech, the French-based developer of magnetic refrigeration technology has added an innovation award from The Institution of Engineering and Technology to its Highly Commended at t...
