Europe
Toshiba Launches New Flagship Touch Screen Air Conditioning
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Toshiba Air Conditioning, a division of Toshiba Carrier UK, has introduced its new flagship touchscreen air conditioning control solution. The new 7in colour touchscreen controller offers unprecedente...
Trox New CE-marked Smoke Control Damper
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Trox EK-EU smoke control damper demonstrates the excellent performance in the EN 13501-4 classification and has the impressive special features according to the EN 12101-8. Trox EK-EU smoke control da...
Climaveneta Extending the Boundaries of Innovation with 1+i
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Climaveneta has announced the introduction of i-FX-W, the new water-source chiller designed to deliver unbeatable efficiency and reduced energy consumption in large buildings and process applications....
Masayoshi Ushikubo of Sanden Receives Great Honor
Masayoshi Ushikubo, chairman of the Sanden group, is now officer of the French Legion of Honor, in recognition of France’s appreciation of his major contribution to bilateral relations between Japan and France. On March 14, 2015, Jean -Yves Le Drian, minister of Defense, presented Mr. Ushikubo with the insignia. During the ceremony held at the French Embassy in Tokyo, Mr. Le Drian described Mr. Us...
Revolutionary boostHEAT Technology Attracts Key Partners
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boostHEAT, a dynamic recently founded company based in Ales in the South of France (head office) and Toulouse (R&D), has merged a boiler and a heat pump, thus creating a single very efficient and ...
Sales of Household Refrigerators and Freezers
In 2014, sales of household refrigerators in France reached 2,594,000 units, a 3.4% increase. With market penetration at a level of 98% for the second year in a row, the market is mature and above all a replacement market. The main trends were as follows: with 42.7% of sales, combined refrigerator/freezer models were by far the most popular, reflecting space -saving considerations. Double-d...
Alfa Laval Plays a Key Role in the Parisian District Cooling
Paris has the world’s largest district cooling network. Climespace’s 52-km underground pipeline network provides air conditioning to well over 500 buildings including office and apartment buildings, museums, hotels, hospitals, shopping malls, theaters and 3-star restaurants. The Louvre, with more than 35,000 fragile works of art on display, is one of the most famous district cooling clients.  ...
GSHP Provides a 50% Renewable Energy Rate in Paris Suburb
A first in France: a new geothermal heat pump is providing a 50% renewable energy rate in a district heating system in Creteil, a Paris suburb. Thanks to the high-temperature heat pump and a connection to a waste incinerator, Creteil’s heating network heats over 33,200 apartments. In order to raise the renewable energy rate in the energy mix of the network, Dalkia’s engineers designe...
ISH Success
The German biennial ISH/Aircontec expo held in March this year in Frankfurt has been judged the most successful yet, attracting 198,000 visitors and having around 2,500 exhibitors. Over 60% of the exhibitors and about one third of visitors came from outside Germany notably Italy, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and China. At least 85% of both exhibitors and visitors were optimistic about the...
Energy Storage Now a Hot Topic
In the not so distant future, energy storage will figure as an essential element in making use of alternatives such as solar and wind power as well as its more traditional role in optimizing air conditioning, heat pump and combined heat and power systems. A three-day conference Energy Storage Europe 2015 held in Duesseldorf in March this year attracted some 1,800 delegates from 48 countries - twic...