Oceania
Australia: Eades Transport takes on Mitsubishi fridges
October 10, 2016 Birdwood, South Australia, Australia: Eades Transport has taken its first Mitsubishi Pegasus fridges, reports Trailer magazine. The company’s first impressions of the Pegasus...
Heatcraft NZ to distribute MHI AC
October 7, 2016 NEW ZEALAND: Lennox subsidiary Heatcraft New Zealand is to distribute certain models of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ wall-mounted splits. Heatcraft branches will now stock MHI’s...
Wilkinson wins sustainability award
September 20, 2016 AUSTRALIA: Phil Wilkinson of the Australian ac and refrigeration institute AIRAH has won an award for contributions to environmental sustainability. The AIRAH ?executive mana...
Australian Scientists Set Solar Thermal Record
Sep. 20, 2016 CANBERRA, Australia - Scientists at the Australian National University (ANU) announced they have set a world record for efficiency for a solar thermal dish generating steam that could be used for power stations. The scientific team said they designed and built a new receiver for the solar concentrator dish at ANU, halving losses and achieving a 97 percent conversion of sunlight into...
Emerson Awarded Shell Prelude Contract
AUSTIN, Texas (September 7, 2016) - Shell Australia has chosen Emerson (NYSE:EMR) to provide automation maintenance and reliability services for Shell’s Prelude Floating Liquefied Natural Gas (FLNG) f...
SEC Group applauds Western Australia approach
AUG 31, 2016 Frustrated with the lack of progress in improving construction payment performance, the Western Australian government has recently announced tough new measures to deal with the problem. From 30 September 2016 project bank accounts (PBAs) will become mandatory on all state government projects valued between A$1.5m (￡860k) and A$100m (￡58m). A new code of conduct for ten...
ICCC2016 highlights: low charge ammonia systems for the cold
24/08/2016 The following summary refer to three papers presented during the IIR International Cold Chain Conference (ICCC2016) which took place on April 7-9 in Auckland, New Zealand. They can all be d...
Yellow Jacket reaches for Sky
August 23, 2016 AUSTRALIA: The availability of Yellow Jacket refrigeration and air conditioning tools in Australia has been increased with the appointment of Sky Refrigeration Pty as distributor. &nbs...
2.5 Australia
Australian ATW market scale was 23,900 units in 2015, a drop of 5.5% over 2014. As Australia has some of the strictest environmental regulations in the world, the market has potential for ATW a...
BuildingIQ Acquires Comfort Sensing Technology from CSIRO
Sensing subsystems enhance its energy intelligence platform August 11, 2016 SYDNEY - BuildingIQ has announced the acquisition of comfort sensing technology, comprised of the OptiCool and ComfortSENSE subsystems and interface, from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) for approximately AUD$500,000. Until now, BuildingIQ had an exclusive worldwide license t...
