Europe
Hapag-Lloyd relies on sustainable ship operations with the G
17 Jul 2015 Germany’s largest shipping company, Hapag-Lloyd, relies on chemical-free UV ballast water treatment from GEA for fitting its container fleet. In April 2015, the BallastMaster ultraV 500 w...
GEA supports SERUM ITALIA SPA entrepreneurship in Italian Da
17 Jul 2015 GEA has successfully delivered to Serum Italia SPA a turnkey facility for the production and processing of Sweet Whey fort the Italian dairy market. An evaporation process type COMBIVAPORA...
Chillventa 2016 to be even bigger
17 July 2015 GERMANY: The continued success of Chillventa, the industry’s leading international show, has prompted the organiser to expand the event into hall 7A for the 2016 event. The additio...
CO2 AC Tested in Marseille Bus Fleet
R134a will be banned in new passenger cars in Europe as of 2017, and is likely to be banned in public transport vehicles in the future. With this forecast in mind, the Marseille public transport authority, Regie des Transports de Marseille (RTM), is testing CO2 air conditioning technology manufactured by a leader in the field, the German company Konvekta. A first in France, two buses have been fit...
CIAT New Air Heaters
CIAT’s HEE Heliotherme and TPL air heaters have been designed to address new constraints on a market in which energy optimization is the key focus. Thanks to optimization, the products’ energy ...
AMCA International and CETIAT Sign Accredited Laboratory Agr
The Air Movement and Control Association (AMCA) International and Centre Technique des Industries Aerauliques et Thermiques (CETIAT) have entered into an independent accredited laboratory agreement. The signing ceremony took place during Fan 2015, an international conference on fan noise, technology, and numerical methods held in Lyon, France. CETIAT can now perform pre-certification tests,...
SNEFCCA in Favor of a Refrigerant Price Index
During a meeting bringing together suppliers, Jean-Marc Poiret, president of Syndicat National des Entreprises du Froid, des Equipements de Cuisines Professionnelles et du Conditionnement de l’Air (SNEFCCA), highlighted that SNEFCCA considers that a refrigerant price index would be particularly useful for installers. Such an index could be launched during the second half of 2015 and would make it ...
New Vice President of Daikin France
Former director and general manager of sales at Daikin Europe, Wim Vangeenberghe is now vice president of Daikin France. Le Moniteur reports that Mr. Vangeenberghe, originally from Belgium, wil...
Regis Leportier New President of AFCE
Regis Leportier, marketing director of Tecumseh Europe, has been appointed president of the Board of Alliance Froid Climatisation Environnement (AFCE), the French Refrigeration, Air Conditioning and Environmental Alliance. Regis Leportier has highlighted the key role AFCE and its partners are playing within the framework of the implementation of the F-gas Regulation. In this context, AFCE’s action...
Climespace Cools the New Paris Philharmonic
Climespace and the new Philharmonie de Paris have a win-win agreement. Not only is the striking Philharmonic building designed by Jean Nouvel cooled by Climespace, but the edifice also hosts a huge Climespace district cooling plant manwithin the framework of a 30-year contract. The Cite de la Musique (Music City) will also be cooled by Climespace. The new cooling plant has a capacity of 5.5 ...