Oceania

2017.02.19

GREE Solar Hybrid Technology Recognized By Australian Govern

2017-02-06 Australian air conditioner energy efficiency entry level is one of the highest entry requirements in the world. And the Solar technical application and promotion is also considered as one o...

2017.02.08

Harwood elected AIRAH president

6 FEB 2017 AUSTRALIA: Ian Harwood, an associate director with contractor Norman Disney & Young, has been elected president of Australian professional body AIRAH.   Harwood’s appointment follo...

2017.02.07

Battery Storage Solutions - Potential for Solar Adoption in

Feb 05, 2017 Electric cars and renewable energy are no longer distant, futuristic ideals. They are a close reality, following the critical advancements of current battery technology. Here’s why. By ...

2017.01.31

New Year’s Resolutions from Global Association Leaders-- IIR

Didier Coulomb, director general of International Institute of Refrigeration   (IIR)   The main activities of the IIR in 2016, which will continue in 2017, involved the cold chain for food a...

2017.01.23

2 |8 AUSTRALIA

Australia is a mature and stable market dominated by Japanese brands. No big fluctuations were seen in the 2016 market, which recorded sales of 887,000 units with 2.0% growth compared with 2015. Heat ...

2017.01.21

Bega Cheese to acquire iconic brands from Mondelez Internati

Jan 18, 2017 Included in the sale are Mondel?z International owned brands - VEGEMITE, ZoOsh, Bonox - and other products that use the Kraft brand under license, such as processed cheese slices, parmesan cheese and more. Mondel?z International, Inc., Deerfield, Ill., reached an agreement to sell most of its Australia and New Zealand grocery business to Bega Cheese Ltd., Australia, for $460 million,...

2016.12.14

Hydrocarbon gas blamed for fatal explosion

December 13, 2016 AUSTRALIA: A hydrocarbon refrigerant gas leak is being blamed for an explosion that killed two men working at a bar in northern Victoria in June 2014.   The inquest into the deaths of Barry Purtell (34) and Dave Lobb (52) opened on Monday in Bendigo. Mr Purtell suffered facial burns and internal injuries and died on the day of the incident. Mr Lobb died of his injuries two w...

2016.12.09

Newest milk powder plant with GEA technology inaugurated in

Dusseldorf (Germany)/Lichfield (New Zealand), December 7, 2016 - After a two-year construction period and initial commissioning in September, Fonterra inaugurated its state-of-the-art, high-efficiency...

2016.12.08

R12 seized in the South Pacific

December 6, 2016 Solomon Islands: Customs authorities in the Solomon Islands have reported their second seizure of the illegal CFC refrigerant R12 this year.   The local Solomon Star reveals that the most recent illegal import interception involved five cylinders of the ozone depleting CFC refrigerant.   Earlier in the year, authorities seized 24 cylinders of the gas, which had been labe...

2016.12.06

GEA supplies key technology for Lithium processing in Austra

5 Dec 2016 GEA has received a larger order from MSP Engineering Pty Ltd, to equip a new, ultra-modern facility for Tianqi Lithium Australia Pty Ltd for the production and processing of lithium. In de...