Europe
Courier Express spends ￡350k on eight new vehicles
February 13, 2017 Manchester, UK: Courier Express Refrigerated Transport, has expanded its fleet spending ￡350,000 on eight dual-temperature vans. The new avehicles will allow Courier Express to expand in the south of England. All vehicles will be fitted with SmartCam dashboard cameras and temperature recording devices. The SmartCams - which will be combined with the FleetTra...
Save the date: eurammon Symposium 2017 'Small Applications <
Frankfurt, 10th February 2017 - Great potential for systems in a small capacity ranges: On June 22 and 23 2017, operators, planners, manufacturers and interested expert visitors will meet at the euram...
Aldi overtake Co-Op in UK market
Feb 13, 2017 German-owned Aldi has overtaken the Co-operative to become Britain’s fifth biggest supermarket group, highlighting the rapid growth of the discount chain. Industry data from Kantar World...
Hitachi Rail Italy wins a contract worth 106 million Euros f
Naples, Italy, February 13, 2017--- Hitachi Rail Italy today announced that it has been awarded a contract, signed February 8th, worth 106 million EUR from Azienda Trasporti Milanesi (ATM) to manufact...
Danfoss named Edison Awards finalist for its Turbocor(R) VTT
-13 February 2017 Danfoss has been named a 2017 Award Finalist in the Energy & Sustainability category by the internationally-renowned Edison AwardsTM for its new Turbocor(R) VTT range of compres...
UK construction growth driven by infrastructure investment
13 February 2017 According to the latest forecasts by the Construction Products Association (CPA), construction output is expected to grow by 0.8% in 2017, 0.7% in 2018 and 2.2% in 2019. Although the forecast shows that the industry will maintain its post-Referendum momentum, it also hides a considerable variation in fortunes across the key construction sectors. Growth to 2019 is exp...
Future developments in magnetocaloric refrigeration and heat
08/02/2017 Two main topics were addressed in the 72 papers presented during Thermag VII conference: magnetocaloric materials (alloys and compounds with magnetocaloric effect, physics of the magnetocal...
ACS&T gains new ISO standard
February 9, 2017 Hull, UK: ACS&T has been certified to the new ISO9001: 2015 and ISO14001: 2015 standards. The new standards were published in 2015 and companies have three years to meet th...
Waitrose adds ten Scania CNG trucks to its fleet
February 9, 2017 Bracknell, UK: Waitrose has bought 10 Scania compressed natural gas powered trucks, which are expected to achieve fuel savings of around ￡15,000 to ￡20,000 each year for each vehicl...
Alternative low-GWP refrigerants for transport refrigeration
08/02/2017 140 papers were presented during the successful 12th IIR Gustav Lorentzen conference on Natural refrigerants. CO2 was the most addressed refrigerant (74 papers), followed by hydrocarbons (3...
