Europe
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 ...
Atlantic Expanding Its Main Plant in La Rochesur- Yon
Atlantic is once again extending its main plant in La Roche-sur-Yon in the Vendee region of France. Founded in 1968, Atlantic now has 650 employees working at La Rochesur- Yon, up from 420 ten years ago. Groupe Atlantic now has a total of 5,500 employees worldwide. Heat pumps, electric water heaters and electric radiators are manufactured at the La Roche-sur-Yon plant. The head office employing 30...
HPC News Letter Features Air Conditioning - A Giant Heat Pum
There is one heat pumping technology with, indeed, a very large number of users worldwide, and which is not normally thought of as a heat pump application. This heat pumping technology is air conditioning, or, more correctly, space cooling. In this issue of the Heat Pump Centre (HPC) Newsletter, HPC takes a look at space cooling markets and trends in North America and Europe (France); HPC p...
EHPA Position Paper on the European Heating & Cooling Strate
During the European Sustainable Energy Week, the European Heat Pump Association (EHPA) published a position paper on the European Heating and Cooling Strategy (the Strategy), a guidance document the European Commission (EC) has announced to publish in autumn 2015. The European heat pump industry stresses the need for such a strategy to realize the huge potential of the heating and cooling s...
Secop Plans to Consolidate European Component Production
Secop is continuing to optimize its European manufacturing footprint to remain competitive now and in the future as well as further strengthen its market position. Secop has now decided to consolidate its component manufacturing at its facility in Zlate Moravce, Slovakia. It plans to relocate its component production from Austria to Slovakia within 2016. In parallel with this, the Secop Gro...
Guntner New Product Series Offering Compact Variety
Since the beginning of May, the new Guntner condensers, gas coolers, and dry coolers Flat Compact and Vertical Compact have been available. The complete revision of the successful product serie...
Nibe Comments on EU VAT Ruling on Energysaving Products
At the beginning of June, the European Court of Justice ruled in favor of a legal attempt by the European Commission to outlaw reduced value-added tax (VAT) rates on energy-saving products for the home, which could drive up the cost of renewables for UK consumers. Phil Hurley, managing director at Nibe, warns that the decision could be a significant setback for the heat pump market - and urges ind...
ebm-papst Strengthens Global Market Position
The ebm-papst Group is staying on course for global growth. At the close of the fiscal year on March 31, 2015, revenue at the family-owned company based in Mulfingen, Baden- Wurttemberg, Germany, amounted to 1.573 billion Euro(US$ 1.8 billion), an increase of 4.8% from the previous year’s figure of 1.501 billion Euro(US$ 1.7 billion). With these results, ebm-papst strengthened its leading position...
LU-VE Presents Research on CO2 Heat Exchangers at 16th Europ
At the 16th European Conference, LU-VE Group presented a research into the new generation of heat exchangers for CO2 applications carried out by Group R&D Director Stefano Filippini and R&D La...
Fruitful Results of 16th European Conference of AC&R Industr
The 16th European Conference of the Latest Technologies in Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Industry was held from June 12 to 13 during Expo Milano 2015 at Politecnico di Milano. The conference was ...
