Oceania
No refrigerant without accreditation
November 24, 2014 NEW ZEALAND: From January 1 it may be very difficult for anyone not in possession of the correct accreditation to buy refrigerant in New Zealand. All major suppliers in New Ze...
Regional appointment at Distech Controls
21 Nov 2014 Distech Controls has appointed a regional sales manager for Australasia. The company has appointed John Nardozza to the position, which will play an important role Distech’s worldwide growth strategy. Distech Controls announced plans to ramp up operations in the regions at the ARBS Exhibition earlier this year. Nardozza has more than 11 years of sales experience in the building auto...
New Zealand to Adopt Refrigerant Licensing from 2015
The major refrigerant suppliers in New Zealand have agreed that from January 1, 2015, refrigerant will only be sold to trained, license-holding engineers. Presentation of an approved filler, handler certificate or license will become a mandatory requirement when purchasing refrigerant in New Zealand. A voluntary arrangement has been in place since 2011. This licensing requirement wil...
2.11 Australia
Australia’s real GDP growth in 2013 was 2.4%, down from 3.7% in 2012. According to BSRIA, its market size for chillers was US$ 103.0 million in 2013, a 7.0% decrease from 2012. By chille...
Fujitsu recruits 15 technicians for new service program
17 Nov 2014 New program Fujitsu General has introduced a new service program, Fujitsu Assist, to help streamline the maintenance and support divisions of the business. Integrating new workflow ...
Corrosion prevention conference
14 Nov 2014 Corrosion, which can be both dangerous and expensive to a wide range of structures, costs the Australian economy between three and five per cent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) annually. ...
Search is on for green buildings CEO
13 Nov 2014 Jane Henley to step down in March, 2015. The World Green Building Council (WorldGBC) has announced that chief executive officer, Jane Henley, will step down from the role in March. ...
A winning partnership
12 Nov 2014 Bitzer in Australia Bitzer has a long history with the Australian market it’s a relationship that began in the year 1960 when the first Bitzer compressors were sold through W.H. Evan...
Abolition of the carbon tax in Australia.
11 November 2014 The Australian Government has abolished carbon tax, with effect from July 1, 2014. The tax, introduced in July 2012, was thought to have led particularly to dramatic increases in refrigerant prices. Taxes were applied according to a refrigerant’s global warming potential: some of the higher GWP HFCs had seen huge price increases. Source: http://www.iifiir.orgcialisci...
Tim Edwards on how refrigerants can deliver $10 billion a ye
Willow Aliento | 10 November 2014 President of the Australian Refrigeration Association Tim Edwards believes the Australian property sector can reduce energy use by between 60 and 70 per cent and achi...
