Europe
Positive Future for Heat Pumps in France
New renewable energy initiatives announced by the French environment ministry appear to guarantee future certainty for the heat pump industry. According to the trade association AFPAC, air-to-air units will remain the principal solution at around 400,000 units per year but this level will only be sustained if more encouragement is given to the use of heat pumps in renovation: currently only one th...
Fan Coils Take-over
One of the UK’s leading manufacturers of fan coil units, Ability Projects, has been bought up by Glen Dimplex - said to be the world’s largest supplier of electric heating products with an estimated turnover of 1.5 billion Euro (US$ 1.7 billion). Ability Projects makes a range of fan coil units and fan packages with heat recovery. The company is expanding its current manufacturing space and h...
Gree in UK
Newly launched as Gree UK, this Chinese air conditioning industry giant aims to reinforce its existing presence with a range of products from splits and variable refrigerant flow (VRF) systems to heat...
A New Environmental Index
The Well Building Standard, a concept which originated in the United States, is another attempt to quantify the interrelation between a building and its occupants in terms of health, comfort, and job satisfaction. Unlike previous indices, this seeks to be allinclusive taking into account seven principal attributes: indoor air quality (IAQ), water quality, nourishment, light, fitness, physical comf...
Diffusion Take-over
An UK manufacturer Diffusion, who produces a range of heating and cooling equipment including fan coils and fan convectors, became part of the Volution Group in a take-over finalized in late 2015. Volution already owns a number of key brands including Vent-Axia and reportedly sold over 20 million product items in 2015. Source: ACR News, UK...
Vent-Axia celebrates 30th anniversary of commercial fan
23 June 2016 Vent-Axia is celebrating 30 years as since its first T-Series fan rolled off the Crawley production lines in 1986. This was the year Michael Jackson’s Bad album dominated the chart...
Clean air campaigner to guide industry on tackling IAQ theme
21 JUNE, 2016 Clean Air London joins speakers at our IAQ Question Time on June 29 Simon Birkett of campaign group Clean Air in London is joining a wide range of industry experts discussing the hot topic of pollution and indoor air quality at the first H&V News IAQ Question Time. The free event will see presentations on all the aspects of IAQ in both the domestic and HVAC commerci...
Kelvion’s owner buys Flakt Woods
June 21, 2016 GERMANY: Investment group Triton, owner of heat exchanger company Kelvion, has signed an agreement to acquire Flakt Woods. Flakt Woods is seen as a global leader in air technology - air movement, treatment, management, diffusion and distribution. Financial details of the acquisition from the company’s investors Sagard and Equistone have not been disclosed and the transaction i...
Tinytag data loggers - essential temperature monitoring
June 21, 2016 Chichester, UK: Tinytag data loggers provide flexible and easy to use monitoring for cold chain logistics. Tinytags measure small changes in temperature, and loggers with external probes...
ebm-papst : International Sustainability Day
21 June 2016 “Every Day Is a Green Day” - this is the motto of the highly successful international sustainability campaign that ebm-papst’s trainees kicked off four years ago. Their goal was to ...
Refritrans 2001 Named Carrier Transicold Spain’S 2015 Servic
June 21, 2016 Coslada, Spain Refritrans 2001, S.L.L. has been named Service Partner of the Year 2015 as part of Carrier Transicold Spain’s annual Performance Assessment and Competitive Excellence (PAC...
Panasonic Acquires UK Technology Systems Integrator Alan Dic
Jun 21, 2016 Bracknell, United Kingdom - June 20, 2016 -Panasonic Europe has announced the acquisition of Alan Dick Communications, a leading UK technology integration specialist providing end-to-end ...
